Professor Oakland is Chairman of The Oakland Group (www.weareoakland.com) and Head of its Research and Education Division, The Oakland Institute. He is also Emeritus Professor of Business Excellence at Leeds University Business School.
Over more than forty years he has worked with top management in all aspects of quality, business excellence, performance improvement, and more recently in data analytics, in literally thousands of organisations. He has directed several large research projects in Europe, funded by the British Government and EU programmes, and the Chartered Quality Institute, which have brought him into contact with a diverse range of organisations. His work has been widely acknowledged and published.
He is author of several books, including the bestselling: Total Organisational Excellence, Total Quality Management and Operational Excellence 5ed, Total Construction Management and Statistical Process Control & Data Analytics 8ed, all published by Routledge, and Production and Operations Management published by Pearson. He has written literally hundreds of papers, articles and reports on various topics in these fields.
Professor Oakland is a Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, an Honorary Life Member of the Research Quality Association, Member of the American Society for Quality and a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society.
Professor Oakland is Chairman of The Oakland Group (www.weareoakland.com) and Head of its Research and Education Division, The Oakland Institute. He is also Emeritus Professor of Business Excellence at Leeds University Business School.
Over more than forty years he has worked with top management in all aspects of quality, business excellence, performance improvement, and more recently in data analytics, in literally thousands of organisations. He has directed several large research projects in Europe, funded by the British Government and EU programmes, and the Chartered Quality Institute, which have brought him into contact with a diverse range of organisations. His work has been widely acknowledged and published.
He is author of several books, including the bestselling: Total Organisational Excellence, Total Quality Management and Operational Excellence 5ed, Total Construction Management and Statistical Process Control & Data Analytics 8ed, all published by Routledge, and Production and Operations Management published by Pearson. He has written literally hundreds of papers, articles and reports on various topics in these fields.
Professor Oakland is a Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, an Honorary Life Member of the Research Quality Association, Member of the American Society for Quality and a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society.