Anand G

Research Areas

Operational excellence through Lean Thinking, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance Humanitarian Supply Chain

Applications of Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Models Benchmarking

Education

• PhD (Lean Manufacturing), BITS Pilani, Rajasthan
• ME (Manufacturing Systems Engineering), BITS Pilani, Rajasthan
• BE (Mechanical Engineering), Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, Chennai (earlier affiliated to the University of Madras)

Teaching

• Service Operations Management
• Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• Operations Strategy
• Lean Systems
• Six Sigma
• Quality Management
• Operations Management

Other Professional Appointments

Apr 2021 - Till date, Chairperson - Research

Jun 2017 - Mar 2019; Chairperson - Quantitative Methods and Operations Management (QM & OM) Area, IIM Kozhikode

Dec 2014 - May 2017; Chairperson - Accreditation and Ranking, IIM Kozhikode

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership

1999- 2001; Methods/Industrial Engineer, TVS Electronics Limited, Chennai, India.

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

Srivastav, D., Praveen, P., Anand, G., and Sensarma, R. (2021), 'Does salary dispersion affect team performance in cricket? - The context of IPL', Presented in 31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 30 Apr-5 May, Online.

Srivastav, D., Pati, R.K., Anand, G. (2021), 'Sustainability in e-commerce: A triple bottom-line view', Presented in 31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 30 Apr-5 May, Online.

Srivastav, D., Praveen, P. and Anand, G. (2020), 'Role of situational factors and decision making: Comparison between one-day cricket and twenty20 cricket', Presented in Sixth Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM 2020), 2-4 January, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, Organised by Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) and Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIMT), Tamil Nadu, India.

Srivastav, D. and Anand, G. (2019), 'Implementing lean thinking in e-commerce industry - An exploration', Presented in the XXIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2019), 19-21 December 2019, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Organized by Society of Operations Management (SOM) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

Narayanamurthy, G., Sengupta, T., Shinde, S. and Anand, G. (2019), 'Lean journey of healthcare institutions: A literature review', Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of European Operations Management Association (EurOMA 2019) - Operations adding value to society, 17-19 June 2019, Helsinki, Finland. (Organized by European Operations Management Association, Hanken School of Economics, Finland and Aalto University Business School, Finland)

John, L. and Anand, G. (2018), 'On the use of quantity flexibility contract with discounts with spot market procurement in humanitarian supply chain', Presented in the 12th International Conference of the Indian Sub Continent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI 2018) - Data Driven Decision Making in the Digital Age, 27-30 December 2018, Mumbai, India (Organized by S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) and Indian Sub Continent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI)).

Vinoth Kumar, C. and Anand, G. (2018), 'Application of MUSIC-3D for inventory management in a hospital - A case study', Presented in the XXII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2018): Operations Management at Crossroads - Challenges of Big Data, Industry 4.0, Sustainability, and Global Uncertainty, 20-22 December 2018, Kozhikode, Kerala, India (Organized by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) and Society of Operations Management (SOM))

Mittal, S. and Anand, G. (2017), 'Implementing lean in a restaurant: A feasibility study', Presented in the 11th International Conference of the Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI), 28-30 December 2017, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. (Organized by Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli)

Narayanamurthy, G., Anand, G. and Subramanian, N. (2017), 'Is the hospital ready to rollout lean implementation? - A methodology for assessing the organizational readiness', Presented in the International Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Navigating the Future: Innovative technologies and methodologies in operations management, Sydney, Australia, 12-14 December, 2017 (Organised by Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia).

John, L. and Anand, G. (2016), 'Coordination mechanism for humanitarian supply chain using flexible returns contracts', Presented in the International conference on 'Big Data Analytics for Optimising Supply Chains, 29-30 July 2016, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Andheri West, Mumbai, India, (organized by SPJIMR and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) India Chapter).

Narayanamurthy, G., Shah, R. and Anand, G. (2016), 'Are penalties 'sticky' in the long term? An empirical investigation in the US Nursing Homes', Presented in the 27th Annual Conference of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS), 6-9 May, Orlando, Florida, USA. (Organized by Production & Operations Management Society (POMS), USA.

Gopalakrishnan, N. and Anand, G. (2015), 'Critical failure factors in implementing ERP - Relationships, priorities and framework', Proceedings of the International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM 2015), 22-23 November 2015, InterContinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Organized by College of Business Administration, Abu Dhabi University and Asian Academy of Management)

Gopalakrishnan, N., Shah, R. and Anand, G. (2015), 'Impact of inspection outcomes on Nursing home care quality - Role of ownership and affiliation', Presented in the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting, 1-4 November 2015, Philadelphia, USA, Organized by INstitute For Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), USA.

Gopalakrishnan, N. and Anand, G. (2014), 'Hospital leanness index - A fuzzy assessment method for hospitals implementing lean thinking', Presented in the XVIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, 12-14 December, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India (Organized by Society of Operations Management and Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India).

Gopalakrishnan, N. and Anand, G. (2014), 'Lean thinking in healthcare sector: Experience from an Indian hospital', Presented in the 25th Anniversary Conference of Production and Operations Management Society (POM 2014), 9-12 May, Atlanta, USA (Organized by Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), USA).

Gopalakrishnan, N. and Anand, G. (2013), 'Downstream supply chain of an alcoholic beverage manufacturer in India - A case study', Proceedings of the International Conference on Supply Chain & Logistics Management (ICSCLM 2013), 5-7 December 2013, New Delhi, India (Organized by The Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics Management at Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India and Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School, The University of Hull, UK).

Gopalakrishnan, N. and Anand, G. (2013), 'Lean thinking in education: A case study approach', Presented in the 2013 Lean Educator Conference (LEC 2013), 3-5 October2013, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Organized by Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA).

Shiv Shankar, K. and Anand, G. (2012), 'Application of a multi-criteria decision making approach in the design of a supply chain - a case study', Presented in the XVI Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM-2012), December 21-23, 2012, New Delhi, India (Organized by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), New Delhi, India and Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India).

Chandrashekar, A. and Anand, G. (2011), 'Re-engineering the software development process using lean thinking - A case study', Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Systems and Management (ITSM-2011), December 17-18, 2011, Kozhikode, Kerala, India (Organized by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), Kozhikode, Kerala, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas, USA and George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA).

Dasgupta, N. and Anand, G. (2011), 'A study on implementation of lean manufacturing elements in Indian industry using a meta-data analysis', Proceedings of the 26th National Convention of Production Engineering & National Seminar on New Vistas in Production Technologies, May 7-8, 2011, Jaipur, India, pp.44-52 (Organized by Institute of Engineers, Rajasthan State Chapter, Rajasthan, India) - Key Note Address

Ramachandran, R., Srinivas, J. and Anand, G. (2010), 'A study on implementation of six-sigma tools and techniques in Indian industry using meta-analysis approach', Proceedings of the Second Annual Global Business Summit Conference (GBSC 2010), June 23-25, 2010, Chennai, India, pp.166-187 (Organized by Global Strategic Management Inc. (GSMI), Michigan, USA and Karunya University, Coimbatore, India).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2009), 'Development of analytic hierarchy process for the selection of a product development methodology', Proceedings of the PDMA India IV Annual International Conference on New Product Development: Challenges in Meltdown Times (NPDC 2009), December 17-19, 2009, Chennai, India (Organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India and Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) India).

Balaji, M. Ch., Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2009), 'Selection of a machine tool for FMS using ELECTRE III - a case study', Proceedings of the 5th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2009), August 22-25, 2009, Bangalore, India (Organized by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2008), 'A simulation approach for the design of lean manufacturing systems', Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Design and Manufacturing Engineering (ICDM-08), February 01-02, 2008, Coimbatore, India (Organized by Karunya University, Coimbatore, India).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2008), 'Lean manufacturing - past, present and the future', Proceedings of the All India Seminar on 'New Vistas in Manufacturing', January 05-06, 2008, Jaipur, India (Organized by Institute of Engineers, Rajasthan State Chapter, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2007), 'Performance value analysis for justification of lean manufacturing systems', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2007), December 2-5, 2007, Singapore (Organized by IEEE Engineering Management Society, Singapore Chapter and IEEE Singapore Section).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2007), 'Operations management in nano-manufacturing era: some issues and propositions', Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Mechanical Technology - Macro to Nano (EMTM2N - 2007), 16-18 February 2007, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India (Organized by Mechanical Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India).

Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2006), 'A conceptual framework for lean new product development', Proceedings of National Conference on Design for Product Life Cycle (DPLC-2006), February 17-18, 2006, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (Organized by Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India).

Mishra, R.P. Anand, G. and Kodali, R. (2003), 'Relative rating model for the justification of world-class quality management', Proceedings of the International Conference of Quality, Reliability and Information Technology - Trends and Future directions (ICQRIT 2003), December 18-20, 2003, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, India (Organized by Society of Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management, Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, Mumbai, S.O.S in Computer Science and Applications, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India).

Academic Positions

2021 - Till date, Professor, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management Area

2013 - 2021; Associate Professor, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management Area

2010 - 2013; Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK)

2003 - 2010; Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Group, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India.

Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management Amritsar (IIM ASR), Taught Service Operations Management, Lean Systems, for multiple batches of PGP