Faculty of Business, Humanities and Social Sciences | School of Business

Prof Sanjay Bhasin

Professor - Innovation and Operational Excellence

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Portrait photograph of Professor Sanjay BhasinProgramme Director for the Professional Doctorate in Operational Excellence

Prof Sanjay Bhasin is an accredited senior Operational Excellence practitioner depicting high-ranking management positions within the industrial, education and public sectors. As a master Black-belt in LSS, his recent role as “Head of Continuous Improvement” for the Probation Sector for England and Wales incorporated steering the organisation towards a higher level of OPEX maturity. He obtained his PhD in Lean from Aston University. He is the author of numerous articles published in reputable international journals alongside four books and is frequently invited as a key-note speaker to prestigious international conferences.

He is presently the Programme Director for three suites of programmes:

He holds a Director position with the “Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services”. He sits on various Editorial Advisory Boards:

  • International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management (IJQRM)
  • International Journal of Lean Six Sigma
  • Journal of Applied Continuous Improvement
  • American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems

He is a fellow of the:

  • Institute of Continuous Improvement in the Public Sector
  • International Lean Six-Sigma Institute
  • Chartered Quality Institute

Recognition includes most commended award for his research on “culture” in the “International Journal of Lean Six Sigma” and winning national awards for his research by the Institute of CI Public Sector. Besides being a peer reviewer of eleven international journals; he retains his links between academia and the practitioner environment through cutting-edge research. His current work includes exploring leadership needed to sustain operational excellence in the Public Sector alongside the cultural diagnostic mechanisms for organisations.

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