Prof (Dr) Kalyana C Chejarla is an Assistant Professor at
the Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad. He is a PhD from the Indian
Institute of Management (Lucknow), postgraduate from Indian Institute of
Management (Ahmedabad), PGDBA & CFA from ICFAI Business School, and B.Sc.
(Engineering) from National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. His areas of
interest are operations, logistics and supply chain management, lean and
quality management, business process management and decision making. Before
moving into academics in 2014, he has worked for about 18 years in the supply
chain domain at globally renowned organizations such as Tata Motors, HCL
Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and Dell International Services. During
his corporate stint, he dealt extensively with customers in US, UK and Japan.
He has published numerous cases and has recently authored a book titled ‘Lean
Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Adapting Operations to
Changing Business Environment’, published by Springer Nature.
