Benjamin Dehe

Position: Lecturer - Department of Leadership & Management
Research Group: Business Operations, Supply Chain and Transport Research Group (BOSCAT)

Ben joined the Operations Management team at the business school early 2012, since he has focused his research in the application of Operations Management concepts and theories in the sport and services environment. He had previously gained academic experience by co-supervising master research dissertations, and was regularly invited as a guest to participate in BSc and MSc lectures in Strategic Process Improvement, Operations Management at Manchester Business School.

Prior to joining the Business School, Ben worked as a Project Manager to improve the new healthcare infrastructure development. He initiated the definition, design and implementation of a bespoke Lean methodology aimed at reducing the developments’ cycle times and variations, as well as enhancing the innovation level of complex healthcare infrastructure. He also worked for Renault in France and Rolls-Royce Motor cars in England, as Logistics and Production Planner, where he gained his manufacturing experience and was involved in Lean implementation.

Today, his professional interests remain within the process improvement methodologies implementation and specifically Six-Sigma. Certified Black Belt in 2011, Ben received the accreditation from the British Quality Foundation in January 2013.

He first graduated in Industrial Logistics in France, then, pursued in Supply Chain Management and completed a MSc in Operations Management. In 2010, he started his PhD, focusing on the decision making processes and mechanisms required to optimize the planning and design of healthcare infrastructure using the Lean thinking methodologies.

Ben currently teaches modules in Operations Management BIO0230, Decision Making BIO0224, and Service Operations Management BMO0194.

2013

Papalexi, M., Bamford, D. and Dehe, B. (2013) Lean Deployment in Healthcare: a systematic literature review Erasmus Programme (Unpublished)

Zhang, Z., Bamford, D., Moxham, C. and Dehe, B. (2013) ‘Strategy Deployment Systems within the UK Healthcare Sector: A Case Study ’ International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management , 61 (8). ISSN 1741-0401

Papalexi, M., Bamford, D. and Dehe, B. (2013) A comparative analysis of Lean implementations in healthcare taken place in the UK and the US Erasmus Programme (Unpublished)

2011

Dehe, B., Bamford, D. and Bamford, J. (2011) ‘An Application of a MCDA Model for Healthcare Site Selection’. In: 22nd Annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Conference 2011, April 29th-May 2nd 2011, Reno, Nevada, USA

Zhang, S., Bamford, D., Moxham, C. and Dehe, B. (2011) ‘Performance Measurement Systems and Strategic Management within UK Healthcare’. In: 22nd Annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Conference 2011, April 29th-May 2nd 2011, Reno, Nevada, USA

Dehe, B., Bamford, D. and Bamford, J. (2011) ‘An implementation of quality tools and techniques in the planning of healthcare infrastructure’. In: 22nd Annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Conference 2011, April 29th-May 2nd 2011, Reno, Nevada, USA

Zhang, S., Bamford, D., Moxham, C. and Dehe, B. (2011) ‘Strategy deployment in UK healthcare’. In: 22nd Annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Conference 2011, April 29th-May 2nd 2011, Reno, Nevada, USA