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Alan Robinson

Alan G. Robinson

Professor Operations & Information Management
Office: Isenberg N389
Tel: 413.545.5640
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Academic Background

Education
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986
MSE, The Johns Hopkins University, 1983
MA, Cambridge University, 1982
BA, Cambridge University, 1980
Academic Appointments
Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1997-Present
Associate Dean for the Full-Time MBA Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2010-9/2013
Associate Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1992-9/1997
Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1986-9/1992

Research Interests

  • Managing Innovation and Creativity
  • Managing Bottom-up Ideas
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Lean

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate
  • Operations Management
  • High-Performance Organizations
Masters
  • Operations Management
  • Practicum
  • High-Performance Organizations
  • Corporate Creativity
PhD
  • Operations Management
  • High-Performance Organizations
  • Corporate Creativity
  • Lean
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Innovation

Professional Background

Professional Experience
Advisor, 1987-Present, Have advised more than 150 organizations in 25 countries on management issues related to continuous improvement, lean, and innovation.

Recent Honors & Awards

Små Ideér – Stora Resultat (Small Ideas – Big Results), won the SIS Writers Award for the best book published in 2010 by the Swedish Standards Institute, 2010
I was particularly honored to have a prize in Sweden named after me in 2008. The “Alan G. Robinson Award” is now given annually to the company which, according to a panel of judges, manages employee ideas the best in Scandinavia. There is a formal award c, 2008

Selected Publications

“How leaders can create policies that actually work”(jointwith De an Sc hroed er)Journal of Government Financial Management, 66, no. 4, 2017, 36-41.2.

“Solving  the  unsolvable:  How  to  address  complex  politically-charged  transorganizational problems. (joint with  Dean  Schroeder), Organizational Dynamics, 46, no. 4, 2017, 212-219.3.

“A  New  Paradigm  in  Government  Purchasing:  Highways  England  and  its Continuously Improving Supply Chain” (joint with  Dean  Schroeder) Journal of Government Financial Management, 65, no. 3, 2016, 38-44.

Sma Ideer Stora Resultat (Small Ideas - Big Results) (co-authored with Louise Oestberg and Dean Schroeder), SIS Forlag, Sweden, 2010. This book was the result of a study of creativity and idea management in twenty-five Swedish companies, and won the SIS Writers Award for the best book published in 2010 by the Swedish Standards Institute.

Green is Free: Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Green Excellence” (joint with Dean Schroeder), Organizational Dynamics, 39, 2010, no. 4, 345-352, 2011.

Managing Continuous Improvement In Vietnam: Unique Challenges and Approaches To Overcome Them” (joint with Phuong Anh Nguyen), Quality Management Journal, 17, 2010 no. 2, 23-41.

“The Role of Front-Line Ideas in Lean Performance Improvement” (joint with Dean Schroeder), Quality Management Journal, 16, 2009, no. 4, 27-40. 

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