Vijaya Sunder M

Assistant Professor (Practice), Operations Management
Academic Director, Centre for Business Innovation

Walter E. Masing Thought Leader in Quality Management
ASQ Crosby Medal Recipient Faculty
British American Tobacco (BAT) Research Fellow


Email Vijaya_SunderM@isb.edu

Overview

Vijaya Sunder M is currently an Assistant Professor of Operations Management (Practice), Academic Director of the Centre for Business Innovation, and Experiential Learning Program Chair at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Additionally, he is an advisory board member of the Executive Fellow Program in Management, and ISB Executive Education.

His research interests include Operational Excellence, Project Management, Behavioral Operations and Management of Technology. He is the author of three books and over 50 scholarly papers published in top academic outlets such as Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Int. Journal of Operations & Production Management, Int. Journal of Production Economics, and Int. Journal of Production Research. Additionally, his writings have appeared in reputed practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Rotman Management. Teaching case studies authored by him are published in Harvard Business Publishing Education.

He is the recipient of prestigious accolades that include ASQ's Global Crosby Award, IAQ's Walter E Masing Award, and is among the PEX Network's (IQPC) top 50 operational excellence thought leaders worldwide. Before becoming an academic, he had over 18 years of industry experience across global corporations in various leadership positions. Previously, he was Head of Business Process Excellence at the World Bank Group, Assistant-Vice-President at Barclays, and Quality Leader at American Express and Citi. 

He actively teaches specialized management courses for MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. scholars that include Business Process Excellence, Digital Transformation in Services, Project Management, Operations Management. Additionally, as a consultant and trainer, he has trained more than 10k business executives worldwide. He is a sought-after keynote speaker with a global following.

Experience

Academic

  • 2022 - Present: Assistant Professor (Practice) & Academic Director, Centre for Business Innovation, Indian School of Business
  • 2020 - Present: Assistant Professor (Practice), Indian School of Business
  • 2019 - 2021: Visiting Faculty, National Rail and Transportation Institute, Vadodara
  • 2013 - 2020: Visiting Faculty, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi
  • 2019 - 2019: Visiting Faculty, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai

Professional

In the Media

February 13, 2024: AI for Social Good: Revolutionising lives through operational excellence, Forbes India.

April 21, 2023: Digitalisation for safeguarding the digital health data, Express Health Care.

March 16, 2023: Why doctors are critical to digital health deployments, Forbes India.

October 11, 2022: Electric Vehicles: From transition to transformation in 3 steps, Forbes India.

April 21, 2022: India's sustainability Promise, Business India.

May , 2022: Newborns to entrepreneurs—Indian hospitals need a perinatal service package. It’s a win-win, The Print - Online Newspaper.

December 13, 2021: Need for national digital readiness within the Indian healthcare system, Forbes India.

October 8, 2021: Next step in healthcare: Sharing economy to overcome resource crisis, Forbes India.

July 7, 2021: Towards a telehealth ecosystem, Fortune India.

June 16, 2021: Getting ready for the third Corona wave, The New Indian Express.

June 7, 2021: Making the case for Lean Six Sigma in the healthcare sector, The Business Times, Singapore.

May 24, 2021: Bringing the internet to billions—the future of data transmission over the internet, Forbes India.

May 3, 2021: How to tackle the oxygen logistics nightmare, The Hindu Business Line.

March 24, 2021: Lean Six Sigma for healthcare: Improving the health of healthcare processes, Express Healthcare.

December 9, 2020: Why COVID Is India’s Chance to Use AI, Tech – And Enter The Future, The Quint.

November 30, 2020: From the source and not through force: Green supply chain practices for environmental sustainability, The Business Times, Singapore.

October 29, 2020: Technology, Crisis Management And The Pandemic, Outlook India.

September 25, 2020: Environmentalism at the core, The Hindu.

April , 2020: A Global Study on Quality Professionals”,, The Future Factory.

August 9, 2020: Shramik saviours, Fortune India.

July 6, 2020: Shramik trains helped avert a 'humanitarian crisis': Report by ET BUREAU, The Economic Times.

Research & Publications