Matthias Holweg is a Reader in Operations Management and Director of Studies in Management at Gonville and Caius College at the Judge Business School of Cambridge University.
Matthias is a Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. from the Univ. of Applied Sciences Wedel (Germany), and has a M.Sc. from University of Buckingham and a Ph.D. from Cardiff University.
Dr Holweg is a principal investigator on several research programmes on competitiveness and supply chain strategy in the manufacturing industry, including the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP).
He is advising manufacturing and service firms on process improvement and value chain management issues, and has advised several government agencies on automotive industry matters. He has held visiting appointments at MIT and the University of Pittsburgh. His research interetsts are the design and management of supply chain systems, with a particular focus on the global automotive industry, where his research on the 'build-to-order' (BTO) concept has supported the design and implementation of customer-responsive distribution strategies at several vehicle manufacturers. Current research examines the application of lean and six sigma process improvement methodologies in manufacturing and service operations, business process outsourcing (BPO), the management of global supply chains, as well as the evolution of value chain architectures across industry sectors.
Dr Holweg is a member of the board of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Operations Managment, and is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Holweg was a Sloan Industry Center Fellow at the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Senior Research Associate at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School.
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