Dr. Najam Akber Anjum

Assistant Professor and Adjunct Faculty CED Department: Management On-board Status: Long Leave

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor and Adjunct Faculty - CED at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Sep-2015 to PRESENT)
  • HoD Project Execution & Control Manager at NESCOM (Oct-2011 to Sep-2015)
  • Assistant Manager (Technical) at NESCOM (Feb-2003 to Sep-2015)
  • Executive Engineer at Siemens Pakistan Engineering Co. Limited (Oct-2002 to Feb-2003)
  • Maintenance and Development Engineer at Al-Karam Textile Mills (Pvt.) Limited (Mar-2002 to Sep-2002)

Education

  • PhD (Manufacturing Knowledge Management), Loughborough University - 2011
  • MSc (Programmes & Project Management), University of Warwick - 2007
  • BE (Mechanical Engineering), NED Karachi - 2001

Research Interests

  • Manufacturing Knowledge Management

Courses Taught

  • CONCEPTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM (ELP)
  • MS MGT PROJECT
  • MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
  • PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
  • PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
  • SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Research Output

  • Dr. Najam Akber Anjum "Mr. Garments - After the Fire (Product number 9B17M180)", Ivy Publishing, Dec 15, 2017, Canada
  • Dr. Najam Akber Anjum "Knowledge Management Dilemma at Airbus", Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Dec 01, 2017, Pakistan
  • Ahsan Munir, Dr. Najam Akber Anjum "Technological Competitiveness- A Case Study of Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sialkot, Pakistan", 2nd SME International Conference, Mar 15, 2017, lahore, Pakistan

Projects


  • IBA RFPC Funded Research Project Investigation into the phenomenon of intermittent exporting by Pakistani SMEs. (May 2021 to April 2023)

  • TDAP National Exporters Training Program- Development and delivery of Export training for Pakistani SMEs. (Mar 2018 to Dec 2020)

  • IBA CWS Syrian Refugees Support Effort – This effort involved collection of funds for delivering aid to Syrian Refugees in Turkey. (Feb 2019)

  • Entrepreneurship for Engineers – Design and Management of IBA Karachi’s Technology Entrepreneurship program (2017 to 2019)

  • Mumtahin Quiz App - Design and development of a cell-phone based Android and IOS app to take MCQ based quizzes online. The app can be found at Google Playstore and Apple Store aayotee.com – (2018)

  • barobe.com - Barobe is an online store for retailing female footwear. (2017)

  • IBA International Entrepreneurship Summer School - Design and Execution of IBA Karachi’s first Entrepreneurship Summer School where students and faculty from all over the world took part. (Nov 2015 to Aug 2016)

  • Tunfiqoon – This was an effort aimed at utilizing the term-project efforts of students for the benefit of the underprivileged. (2015, 2016)