Flexibility, Innovation, and Sustainable Business

Ramesh Anbanandam is Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee, India. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, after obtaining a bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from Madras University and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy), Tamil Nadu, India. Before joining his doctoral programme at IIT Delhi, he worked for two years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MNM Jain Engineering College which is affiliated to Anna University in Chennai. Before joining IIT Roorkee, he was working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut. His areas of research interest are supply chain Management, humanitarian supply chain management, healthcare supply chain management , operations research, optimization techniques , analytics, advanced data analyticswith Python programming, supply chain analytics, sustainable manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma manufacturing, smart mobility for sustainability, multi-modal sustainable transportation network, electric vehicle, emission & health issues and so on. He has to his credit more than 30 papers published in journals of international repute and is a regular reviewer of many peer-reviewed journals and actively participating in various seminars, talks, and conferences in India and abroad.

Santosh Rangnekar is Professor and former Head of Department, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, and is Visiting Professor at Hanyang University, South Korea. He has more than 30 years' experience in reputed industries and academic institutions like Raymond Ltd. Bombay (J.K. Engineers Files, Pithampur), Shriram Group of Industries (SIEL, Delhi), The Hukamchand Mills Limited Indore, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, IIITM, Gwalior (IndianInstitute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior) and Department of Management Studies IIT Roorkee. He has directed several major research projects in different areas of management. He has designed and conducted several training programmers as a core faculty member and has held sessions in Bajaj Auto Aurangabad, Hindalco Renusagar, Grasim Gwalior, Syncom Indore, Grasim Nagda, ISTD programs Faridabad and Dehradun and in other various executive development and unit-based programs. He conducts research and publishes in the areas of HRM, knowledge management, and intellectual capital.