Alex Hill
Alex takes the lead in delivering the business elements of the Horizons Programmes. He also co-facilitates the leading people and interpersonal skills development inputs and is trained in Myers Briggs level 2 and Firo B.
Alex is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School within Oxford University, Senior Lecturer at Kingston Business School within Kingston University, Visiting Professor at the BEM Management School within Bordeaux University, Visiting Professor at The Academy of National Economy in Moscow, Visiting Professor at Gordon Institute of Business Science within Pretoria University and part of the Duke Corporate Education, Duke University learning resource network where he teaches on a variety of postgraduate and executive programmes.
Prior to moving into the academic sector, he spent ten years in various divisions of the Smiths Group, a large engineering multinational. During this period, responsibilities ranged from managing a business unit to providing consultancy support for the Group’s facilities in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
He has published a number of books, journal articles and case studies including:
- Strategic profiling: a visual representation of internal strategic fit in service organizations, International Journal of Operations and Production Management (2007)
- How to organise operations: Focusing or splitting?, International Journal of Production Economics (2007)
- Operations: Realising its strategic role, Oxford University Press (2008)
- Manufacturing Operations Strategy, Palgrave Macmillian (2008)
- Service Operations Strategy, Palgrave Macmillian (2008)
Horizons has worldwide network who assist in delivering the experiential elements locally. The core team members are: