Anjum Fayyaz has more than 24 years of teaching, training, research and consulting experience in Pakistan, India and Iran. He joined LUMS in 2009 as Director, Rausing Executive Development Centre (REDC) and is currently serving as an Assistant Professor and the Director, Strategic Sectors Research Centre (SSRC). He is also working as Team Lead for Assessment and Strengthening Program (ASP), a USAID funded project, to build the capacity of public sector officers in the area of Monitoring and Evaluation of projects.
Fayyaz’s specialised areas of teaching include strategic business management, entrepreneurship and innovation and human resource management. He initiated and developed the concept of SME Clusters and Networks Development (CND) in Pakistan while working for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for more than nine years from 2001 to 2009. He is a master trainer on UNIDO CND methodology and conducted many trainings and workshops for private and public sectors organisations while also building the capacity of industrial chambers and associations. While working for UNIDO, Fayyaz conducted trainings and executive teaching for the Institute of Quality & Technology Management Department of University of The Punjab. He designed and developed programs on Project Management, Human Resource Management and Marketing Management. He got “Best Teacher Award” on the basis of student evaluation.
Fayyaz has also conducted trainings on Industry – Academia Linkages for the University of Gujrat, Pakistan in addition to his work on Teaching Methodologies for the PhD teachers and students of the Lahore College Women University.
He has also worked as a Member – Provincial Coordination Team Punjab (PCT) & Co-Chair of Thematic Working Groups under One UN in Pakistan. The areas included Agriculture, Rural Development & Poverty Reduction (ARP) and Environment Management to implement One UN project in Punjab in collaboration with other UN agencies working in Punjab through UN Joint Programmes.
Fayyaz is a member of Senior Management Council of Lahore Human Resource Forum (LHRF) – Pakistan with the mission to improve the Networking of HR fraternity, Benchmarking, Sharing Best Practices and Conducting Research in the areas of human resource management and industrial relations.
Anjum Fayyaz is PhD from Copenhagen Business School Denmark in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy. He is an expert on industrial change management with an extensive experience on networking and trust building.
Fayyaz, A. & Syed, J. (In Press 2019). To split or not to split: Strategic planning and alignment at Jaffer Brothers Pvt. Limited (JBL). Asian Journal of Management Cases.
Fayyaz, A., Lund-Thomsen, P. & Lindgreen, A. (2015). Industrial Clusters and CSR in Developing Countries: The Role of International Donor Funding (FT-50 Journal). Journal of Business Ethics, doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2940-6.
Fayyaz, A., mian, S. & Khan, J. (2009). State of entrepreneurship and globalisation in Pakistan. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 3 (3), doi:10.1504/IJBG.2009.023499.
Fayyaz, A., Khan, J. & Mian, S. (2008). The impact of formal SME networks in emerging economies: a study of formal manufacturing networks in Pakistan. International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 4 (1), doi:10.1504/IJBG.2009.023499.
Fayyaz, A. & Ghani, J. (2007). Lahore Woven Garments Consortium (LGC). Asian Journal of Management Cases, 4 (1), 65-86.
Fayyaz, A. & Hemani, S. (2018). Teaching Business Communication: A Case on Free Riding and Peer Evaluation at a Business School, Published. Case Research Unit, LUMS, LUMS No. 09-055-2018-1, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Fayyaz, A., Rauf, H. & Syed, J. (2019). The national business context for industrial SME cluster development in Pakistan: Constraining and facilitating factors. 2019 (9th) International Conference of the Association Global Management Studies (ICAGMS), Saïd Business School University Of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Fayyaz, A. (2015). Industrial Clusters and the Institutionalization of Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: The Role of International Donor Funding.. 27th Annual Meeting. SASE UK, London, United Kingdom.
Fayyaz, A. (2011). Factors Influencing the Development of SME Clusters: Evidence from Pakistan. The 56th ICSB World Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 16 – 18, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fayyaz, A. (2011). Collective Success or Collective Failure? The Sialkot Football Manufacturing Industry's Response to International Labor Standards Pressures in the Early 21st Century. The 56th ICSB World Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 16 – 18, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fayyaz, A. (2007). Developed 15 case studies on Industrial SME Clusters in Pakistan for UNIDO. For Internal Consumption of UNIDO in order to develop cases to train cluster development agents from developing economies, Vienna, Austria.
Fayyaz, A. (2004). Represented UNDP in a Workshop in India on "The Employment Challenge in South Asia". UNDP Workshop, New Delhi, India.
Fayyaz, A. & Syed, J. (2019). The Morning Tea: Executive Communications at XYZ Limited.
Fayyaz, A. & Syed, J. (2019). Internal Communication at Cotton Web Pvt. Limited.
Fayyaz, A. & Syed, J. (2019). The Effects of Development Aid Interventions on the Sustainability of SME Networks.
Fayyaz, A. & Syed, J. (2019). The Role of National Business Systems in Industrial Cluster Development.
Fayyaz, A., Rauf, H. & Syed, J. (2019). The national business context for industrial SME cluster development in Pakistan: Constraining and facilitating factors.
Fayyaz, A. (2015). Aamir Foundation for Educational Research and Development (AFERD) – Case B.
Fayyaz, A. (2015). Aamir Foundation for Educational Research and Development (AFERD) – Case A.
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