Ashok Kumar V
Visiting Faculty-Operations Management
CONTACT INFO
BACKGROUND
Ashok Kumar has the right blend of Corporate,Consulting, Teaching and Training experience.
He uses Simulation, Games and Real- life case studies in this teaching courses and brings his corporate experience and best practices from the world class companies he worked for more than two decades.
He is also a certified trainer and effectively blends academic rigor with learning activities to make the learning stick to the students and apply them later at their workplace.
EDUCATION
- ME (Engineering)-Operations): Advanced Diploma in Management, Diploma in Training and Development
- 6 years as Visiting Faculty at leading business schools in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
- 2 years as Full time Associate Professor and Area Chair @ Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies
- 3 years as Online Learning Facilitator @ Australian Universities (RMIT and Victoria)
- 1 year as Adjunct Faculty @ Presidency University
- Total – 12 years
- Brand management
- Sales and channel management, including acquisitions and their integration
- Route-to-market strategies
- Media-to-shelf planning and execution
- Digital and e-commerce strategies
- Operations Management – TQM, Operations Management, Operations Strategy, Project Management, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Design and Modelling, Purchasing Management
- HRM: Training and Development, OD and Change management
- Others: Entrepreneurial Management, Design Thinking
- Project Management
- Total Quality Management
23 years of corporate experience (15 years in Senior Management) in organizations like DRDO, TVS group, Tata Timken, Volvo. ABB in varied roles like Scientist, Process and Quality Head, National Service Manager, Business Excellence Manager. (includes Global Multicultural context) Research Interests:
- Operational Excellence and Change management.
- Contract Trainer for multiple leading Training organizations – 8 years
- Leadership Programs, Lean Six Sigma Certifications, TPM, Integrated Negotiation, Problem Solving
- Operational Excellence, TPM, TQM. Supply Chain consultant for 7 years
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (IASSC)
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (MSME- TDC India)
- 1. “An Exploratory Study for Enriching TPM Implementation through OD Interventions “in the International Journal for Engineering Technology, Science and Research – Volume 4, Issue 12 December 2017.
- 2. “Succession planning at the Arogya Group” – a case study with a teaching note – The Case Centre-UK.