DR. PRABIR KUMAR BANDYOPADHYAY E-Mail: prabir1955@hotmail.com; Mobile: +91-9881625841, Website: www.pkb.co.in

EXECUTIVE SYNOPSIS

An enterprising professional with 30 years’ experience; judiciously rendered Consultancy , Training and Teaching

services spanning different areas viz. General Management, Project Management, Operational Management,

Productivity Enhancement, Management Systems and Process Management. Presently associated with Goa

Institute of Management as Professor. Expertise in implementing Project Management, TQM, TPM, ISO 9000,

ISO14000, QS 9000, Six Sigma, ABCM, Business Excellence Model; conducting Management Development

Programmes. Distinction in providing management consultancy services to coveted client in the areas of Six-Sigma

Implementation, Quality Improvement, Quality Management Systems, as well as Training and Development.

Possess a clear understanding of the industry, technology trends with the distinction of instituting quality

assurance practices to achieve business excellence at the lowest overall cost. Instrumental in executing Six-Sigma

Implementation projects for coveted clients. Deft in handling Project Management activities entailing project

planning, scope definition, estimation, finalizing deadlines, client engagement management and ensuring timely

delivery of the project to the client (after a judicious selection of a viable delivery model). An effective leader with

strong communication, relationship management, coordination and analytical skills. Capability to think out of the

box and lead from the front.

Expertise in handling the ERM: Enterprise Risk Management via qualitative & quantitative analysis of risks to

support formulation of viable and effective recommendations; development of an impact quantification model to

support the emerging recommendations. Pivotal as a Consultant and Regional Director in National

Productivity Council (Nov.1983-Nov.2004),Faculty in Strategy, Operation Management and QM in

ICFAI Business School, Ahmedabad {Dec’04-Aug’06}; Professor in Operation Management and QT in

IBAT School of Management, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar {Sep’06-May’07}; Head

Consulting and New Initiatives in Balaosre Alloys Ltd. { May’07-Dec.08};General Manager (Systems){

feb’2009-Jan.2011};Professor in Goa Institute of Management{May’10-till date}.

TRAININGS UNDERWENT

In India:

Certified Lead Auditor in ISO9000:2000, ISO 14000, OSHAS18000.

Successfully cleared the International Test of Understanding of ISO9000:2000.

Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate Holder from Six Sigma Institute, Illinois, USA by Expert from Motorola.

Certified Management Consultant (CMC®).

Assessor Training on Business Excellence Model (EFQM) by Confederation Of Indian Industries.

In Abroad:

Kaizen and TQM from Japan; Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) for the duration of 4 weeks.

QCD from Singapore; APO for the duration of 2 weeks.

Knowledge Management from Srilanka; APO for the duration of 1 week.

COMPETENCY PURVIEW

-Project Management/ Strategy Planning -Finalising Proposals -Business Strategy Planning/ CRM

-Change Management -Business Analysis/ Modelling -Structured Analysis of Data -Stakeholder Management -Metric Reporting -Team Management, Mentoring

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Six – Sigma Implementation

o Providing businesses with tools to improve capability of business processes to increase performance and decrease process variation.

o Automating existing Performance Management data to identify opportunities for improvement. o Defining framework for Business improvement initiatives by Six Sigma DMAIC methodology

(Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control). o Demonstrating sustainable improvement in all facets of Business.

Quality Management Systems

o Providing strategic consultancy to clients for achieving quality certification as per ISO 9000, ISO14000, QS 9000 Standards and TPM certification as well as appraising the status of system implementation.

o Developing a framework of quality standards, procedures & systems and overseeing smooth implementation at client end as per TQM.

o Assisting clients in revamping workflow processes for integration of quality systems and effective implementation of Quality Management Systems.

o Taking initiatives in better organising various improvement efforts and linking KPIs with PMS; deploying SOPs across the organization, establishing KRA, KPI and sigma level-SOP wise.

Business Excellence Model o Providing consultancy to organisation on assessing the key areas of focus for business

excellence and assisting in writing position report.

o Improving areas, identified based on assessment of Business Excellence Model like, CII-EXIM

Bank Award & also for Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award through conducting series of workshops on Policy Deployment, Strategy Formulation; looking after ERM (Enterprise Risk Management).

Business Process Re-engineering o Assisting clients in rethinking & radically designing business processes for dramatic

improvements in meeting customer needs and other external strategic demands. o Analyzing various processes/ applications and recommending process modifications to enhance

operational efficiency through process mapping and ABCM. o Identifying capacity limitations & bottlenecks and process problems, plant upsets, reasons for

production shortfall for taking corrective action. o Suggesting appropriate as well as technology-based solutions for enhancing functional

efficiency of the organisation and achieving business excellence. o Analysing business portfolio, and designing performance dashboards and other business

classification, selection and prioritization metrics.

Consulting/ Business Systems Development o Reviewing existing business processes, identifying gaps between existing and desired

operational levels; contributing to the development of sub systems of uniquely built delivery platform.

o Establishing internal controls/ guidelines for supervising the functioning of in house processes.

Training & Development

o Conceptualising and designing customised training programs for quality and management consultancy projects.

o Developing training modules for consultancy on Project Management, TQM, TPM, ISO 9000, ISO14000, QS 9000, Six Sigma, ABCM, Business Excellence Model; conducting Management Development Programmes.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

From mid of May,10 with Goa Institute of Management,Goa as Professor in production and operation management

Played a pivotal part as a Faculty in Operation Management in offering several relevant specialisation and all students opted for Operation Major got placement in good Organisation in Operation area.

Conducted several Management Development Programmes with Confederation of Indian Industries and for Sesa Goa Ltd.

Conducted On Line MDP on Operation Management for Tata Management Training Centre, Pune

Conducted MDP for Naval War College for Captain Level Officers on Operation Research (Continuing)

A key person in rendering consultancy in preparing State Disaster Management Plan and Village Panchayat

Disaster Management Plan for Govt. of Goa.

Introduced special course on Business Excellence Model and Enterprise Risk Management and Sixsigma Green Belt Certification.

Driving the Implementation of Educational Philosophy of the Institute by designing Strategic Aim, Critical Success Factor and help develop Strategy and Activities. This is a part of the accreditation activity (AACSB). Member of the working group for strategy formulation to make the Institute a learning Centric Institute.

Feb’10-mid of May,10 was working as Freelance consultant and Management Teacher Feb’09 - Jan’11’ with Hindusthan National Glass industries Ltd.; designated as General Manager (Systems)

Reporting to President (CEO).

Distinctively brought enthusiasm among various levels of Management in revamping various initiatives like

TPM, Six Sigma, took initiatives in better organizing various improvement efforts and realigning KPIs. Effectively rendered guidance for the Six Sigma Teams on Project Management through DMAIC.

Rendering hand-holding in identification of training need through Job Analysis and designing Training modules for culture change and conducted several training programmes on Soft and hard skill for both managerial and non-managerial positions.

Driving organisation wide effort to inculcate culture of ISO9000, HACCP and ISO 22000 through Audit, counselling, conducting training programmes. The organisation is certified in all three standards.

Dec’08-Feb’09 with Mott MacDonald India Pvt. Ltd.; designated as Sr. Consultant. Worked as Head Business process Reengineering and Admin. Head of Kolkata Management Consultancy Div.

May’07-Dec’08 with Balasore Alloys Ltd. (Formerly known as Ispat Alloys); designated as Head Consulting & New Initiatives

Handling a team of 8 personnel; reporting to Joint Managing Director (CEO).

Successfully developed the Key Projects to develop the newly formed consulting organization, established contacts with Foreign Consultancy organisations for collaboration, developed in-house officers as consultants.

Astutely established contacts with Large Organisations, Govt. Depts’; carried out system simplification study along with NPC in Gov.of Orissa.

Distinctively brought integration among various initiatives like TPM, Six Sigma, Supply chain management, ABCM; took initiatives in better organizing various improvement efforts and linking KPIs with PMS; deployed SOPs across the organization, establishing KRA, KPI and sigma level-SOP wise.

Effectively rendered guidance for the Six Sigma Teams on Project Management through DMAIC; Top Management in preparing for various Business Excellence Model like, CII-EXIM Bank Award and also for Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award through conducting series of workshops on Policy Deployment, Strategy

Formulation; looking after ERM (Enterprise Risk Management).

Rendering hand-holding consultancy services to Paradeep Phospate Limited for institutionalising Quality circle/Kaizen

Dec’04-Aug’06 with ICFAI Business School, Ahmedabad as Faculty in Strategy, Operation Management

and QT and Sep’06-May’07 with IBAT School of Management, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar as Professor in Operation Management and QT

Played a pivotal part as a Faculty in Management in Business Management Schools via taking classes; developing industry contacts; conducting MDPS/ consultancy assignments; generating SIPs; mentoring of students for placement; research coordinator; undergone workshop on teaching through case method/ study

development.

Instrumentally within a short period developed contacts with various progressive organisations; developed promotional brochures on MDPs; planned quite a few MDPs to be launched shortly.

Efficiently generated SIP in New area and guiding students in projects; conducted In-company programmes for Sr. Executives on Six Sigma and Project Management/ MDP on Basic Statistical Techniques for making

ISO9000 more productive/ programme on Project Management for Executives of Stone India..

A key person in rendering consultancy in ISO10002 in a Large Engineering Firm; developed Management Case studies and got published in ECCH (European Case Clearing House).

Introduced special course on Productivity Management, Technology Management.

Nov’83-Nov’04 with National Productivity Council as Chief Consultant/ Regional Director, Patna

Key deliverables across the tenure under various designations;

Feb’02-Nov’04 as Chief Consultant/ Regional Director, Patna

Oversaw the implementation of organisation’s vision and direction to attain the organisation’s growth and societal objectives in geographical area of operation i.e, Bihar and Jharkhand.

Successfully represented NPC in various associations viz. State productivity council, SISI, NSIC and help them in taking policy decisions; managed the total administrative responsibility for the regional office.

Effectively developing and executed comprehensive plans for management of the regional Professional Management Group and realizing revenue.

Effectively tracked new areas and identified new business opportunities and initiate action in line with organizations’ strategies towards enhancing revenue utilization and consultants’ capability.

Supervised the reviews of business performance and identified avenues to streamline service delivery systems to ensure greater efficiencies and customer satisfaction.

Distinctively initiated lot of activities to increase awareness on productivity and environment at the grass root

level; this also helped increasing visibility of the organisation.

Astutely negotiated a unique project on monitoring ‘Highway traffic management system’ working on a long-

term basis for a State Govt.

Played a pivotal part as an Active Member of the corporate strategy making team, contributed significantly toward taking decisions on launching new services.

Instrumentally launched services in OHSAS, Six Sigma Implementation & Black Belt Certification Programmes.

Dec’88-Jan’02 as Sr. Consultant, Ahmedabad/ Kolkata

Nov’83-Nov’88 as Consultant, Ahmedabad

Distinctively initiated and managed relationships with key accounts and provide them with customised solutions for productivity enhancement.

Effectively negotiated, managed and carried out several projects in the are of Productivity Improvement, Organisation Restructuring, Productivity Linked Incentive Scheme, Various System Implementation viz. ISO 9000, ISO 14000, OHSAS, QS 9000, TQM, TPM, Kaizen, etc.

Instrumentally conceptualised and executed Training Programs and awareness Seminars for various levels of

management for different organisations.

Played a pivotal role in executing the following Projects:

o Developed and executed new business worth about 15 crores.

o Represented NPC in CII subcommittees and helped CII, Eastern region in preparing the Productivity

award sheme. Acted as a Jury in award evaluation committee for consecutive four years.

Selected list of Consultancy and Training Assignments are as follows:

o Identification of training need and training evaluation system for M/S Coal India (World Bank financed

project) and IFFCO, Kandla

o Long term Training programme on Productivity/ Project management for IOC, Baroda. , BHEL, Bhopal

o Implementation of ISO 9000 and 14000 systems for various organizations (like-Ordnance Factory,

DumDum, Kesoram Rayon, Kesoram Cotton, Barauni Refinery, Essel Mining, Eastern Railway Workshop-Liluah, etc.). HPCL Petrol pump at Kolkata. IOC Pipe Line Division, ONGC, Regional Computer Centre

o Job restructuring for M/S Alsthom and Birla Tiers, GNFC.

o Implementation of TQM in Indo Asahi Glass in association with the Japanese Technical Director.

o Implementation of Kaizen in Model Workshop of M/S Stone India and M/S Alstom.

o Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance and Six-sigma project in IOC, Barauni.

o Helped several organizations in establishing Quality Circles.

o Design of Productivity linked Incentive Scheme in IPCL, all the Sarabhai Group of Companies at Baroda, BOGL, Bridge and Roof

o Conducted many Management and Supervisory Development Programmes.

o Inter firm comparison study for Jute Industries on behalf of Planning Commission.

o Six-sigma project guidance at Simpson &Sabind, Jamshedpur (A 100% export unit for Automobile

parts).

o Conducted Six Sigma Black Belt Certification programme for IICM and guiding projects.

o Management System Audit for Integrated Steel Plants on behalf of MOS for Prime Minister’s Trophy.

o Job Evaluation and Manpower rationalization, restructuring in several organiastions including some multi national companies and leading Hospital

o Conducted Pilot study for measuring Productivity for Software Development in Usha Telecom, Kolkata

o Executive time profile study in Dept. of Irrigation, Gov.of Bihar

o Project Management for Durgavati Irrigation Project, Govt. of Bihar

o Project management for Flakt India

o Implemented Quality Circle in several Organisations

o Process Capability Study at ESSAB Ltd. Kolkata

o Assessed Five Organisations for Business Excellence (EFQM Model) as an external assessor on behalf

of CII. Commenced career from Oct’78-Sep’81 with Production, Century Spinning and Weaving Manufacturing Company as Jr. Assistant.

WORK DONE IN THE AREA OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODEL

For the last three years involved with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in assessing CII-EXIM Bank

Award participating organisations as an assessor.

Initiated a research on identifying Best Practice in SME sector from the CII-EXIM Bank participating firms in association with CII.

Worked as a Facilitator for implementing EFQM Award Model in Balasore Alloys for two years.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

B.Sc (Tech; Textile Tecnology) from University of Calcutta in 1978. (71.2%)

Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering from T.I.P.I.E (National Productivity Council) in

1983.(66%). [The course is a two year fulltime course and recognised by the Govt. of India].

Ph.D (Engineering) from Jadavpur University in 2004. (Topics: Risk assessment in process industry) (fuzzy logic has been applied).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Life Member of the Institution of Engineers and Chartered Engineer

Life Member of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Member of Institute of Management Consultants of India.

Member of ASQ (American Society for Quality),USA

Member of APICS,USA

PERSONAL VITAE

Date of Birth : 11th October 1955

Permanent Address : 840E Motilal Gupta Road, Behala East Park, Kolkata-700008. Languages known : Bengali, Hindi and English.

Publications/ Other Credentials

SELECT LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Quality Circle Failure- A review Conference Proceedings, National Convention on Quality Circle,

Organised by QCFI, 1987

Application of Dynamic Programming with Decision Network in Modernisation of a Textile Unit, Journal

(Textile) of the Institution of Engineers, Vol.72, Dec.91.

Perspective of Management Development-A Total Approach; Conference proceedings, National Seminar

on Mine Productivity & Technology, Jul’94. Organised by The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of

India.

Shop Floor Productivity –Some Old Factors revisited, Excellence in Supervision, Vol.8.No.6, Nov-Dec’92.

Implication of ISO9000 series of standards from Shop Floor Angle The Indian Textile Journal, Jul’93.

An in-depth analysis in quality costing-A case, Management Accountant (Mar’99).

Preparedness of Leather Industry to implement ISO9000-A Survey, The Journal of Leather technologists

association, Vol.XXXXIII, No.1, Jan’93.

Assessment of risk of rare events-A Review, Chemical Industry News (Jan’00).

In search of Risk Assessment Model for ISO14001, Chemical Industry News (Nov’00).

Assessing risk in chemical plant with Pattern Matching, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 10 (2),

249-253 (Apr’02).

Risk assessment in Open Cast Mining-An application of Yager’s Methodology for ordinal Multiobjective

Decisions Based on Fuzzy sets, Japan journal of Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Vol. 20. No. 3. PP.311-319,

Oct’03.

Implementing KAIZEN in an Engineering Company, KENSU, No.148, 1998, AOTS Journal, Japan.

Working for and with the Customer through ISO10002:2004(E)- A Welcome and Timely move from

ISO, Global CEO, ICFAI Magazine, Feb’06.

Ranking Hazards – A Fuzzy Set Approach for Rational Use of Intuition, ICFAI Journal of Operation

Management (Feb’06).

Managing Knowledge Workers- Issues, Challenges, Direction National Conference on Global

Competitiveness 2006-Organised by ICFAI Business School, Kolkata.

Implementation of Six Sigma Concepts at a Corporate Management Development Institute- A Case

Study IIIM, Jaipur, OORJA

Arvind Mills Ltd.: Managing Working Capital. A case study- published in ECCH 19

Consumers’ perception towards ISO9000-Result of a Pilot Survey, ICFAI Journal of Operation

Management, Vol6, No.1, Feb’07.

Impact of Knowledge Management in IT Products marketing in India (Co authored with Prof.Pranab

Deb, ICFAI) First international conference on knowledge management for productivity and competitiveness,

New Delhi, 11-12.01.2007, Organised by NPC, APO, IMI.

An Application of Principal Component Analysis in Supplier Selection -a case study in the Chemical

Industry, Global Supply Chain Management Conference, Plattsburgh, USA 24-26 th May,2011

Developing an Optimization model for Coking Coal mix for Metallurgical Coke manufacturing at

Optimum Cost, 43rd Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India,Madurai,15-17th

December,2010.

Better moisture control in coke manufacturing- a case study, Indian Journal of Science and Technology,

Vol. 4 No. 9 (Sep 2011),

Use of Sixsigma in adopting Business Excellence Model in Indian Context, International Journal of

Business and Management, Vol.6,No.10,October,2011.

Implementation of TPM-Some Tips from Evidenced Based Management , Asset Management and

Maintenance Journal. Acceptance letter dated 25th May,2011

Assessing Organisational Learning Culture in the Context of Business Excellence –A case study;

10th

Annual International Conference on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Management – Marketing –

Economic Aspects, 29-31 July & 1 August 2013, Athens, Greece ; organised by Athens Institute for Education

and Research.

Compressed New Product Development Cycle & its Impact on Outsourcing Decisions in Auto Component Industry, International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chain, June 2013,Vol. 4,No. 2.pp.25-37.

Application of Principal Component Analysis in Determining Factor Weight in Point Rating System

of Job Evaluation has been published in Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management ( ISSN 0975-

2854, NAAS Rating:2.58; IC Value(2012): 6.30),Vol 7 No.3 March 2014,pp.15-25.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Strategic Maintenance Management – Current Practices (Eds)

Productivity in 21st Century-Issues and Challenges (Eds)

Measuring Productivity in Services-New Dimensions (along with Prof.G S Gupta an eminent economist

of IIM(A).(Eds)

Technology Management-Concepts and Cases (Eds.)

PhD SUPERVISION;

i) One research scholar of Symbiosis international University on Knowledge Management in Software Industry –PhD awarded.

ii) One research scholar of West Bengal University of Technology on “EVALUATION AND CONTROL OF BURNOUT IN INDUSTRY FROM A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE” (Continued)

POST GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED:

14 Thesis supervised

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