LAI Principal Research Associate

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Dr. Bozdogan is a member of the original team that founded LAI in 1993. He has led several research teams, including supplier networks (1993-02), product development (1996-98), acquisition research (1999-02), enterprise architecting (2002-05), and enterprise modeling and design (2005-07). He has also led LAI’s supplier networks working group since 1993; the group was created to support the development of efficient, flexiblem and innovative aerospace supplier networks.

Dr. Bozdogan has played a central role in launching the Lean Sustainment Initiative (LSI), a companion program at MIT (1996-2003) that was designed to help transform the U.S. Air Force’s logistics and sustainment enterprise and led LSI’s enterprise integration team (1998-03). His work in LSI concentrated on the development of effective metrics for managing complex large-scale enterprises. 

Dr. Bozdogan’s research has recently focused on computational enterprise architecture modeling and simulation as part of a larger agenda concentrating on the structure, dynamics, and transformation of complex large-scale enterprise networks. During the past three years, he has served as the MIT principal investigator in a collaborative research project between MIT and the MITRE Corporation on enterprise dynamics modeling. The project has involved the development of unifying organizational design concepts, frameworks, and tools to help guide the architectural transformation of enterprises for a new network-centric age.

After returning to MIT in 1987, Dr. Bozdogan worked as the deputy staff director of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity and contributed to the book, Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (Dertouzos et al., MIT Press, 1989). He also made significant contributions to a two-volume companion publication, The Working Papers of MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity (MIT Press, 1989), which contained the Commission’s full-length reports on the aircraft, motor vehicle, computer, steel, machine tool, and other industries.

His research then focused on public-private partnerships for enhancing technological innovation and international competitiveness. For the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, he conducted an assessment of the EUREKA initiative in Europe and its technology policy implications for the U.S. EUREKA is a major effort aimed at enhancing technology development and commercialization to improve Europe’s industrial competitiveness through government-industry partnerships within individual countries and cross-border collaboration among companies across Europe. His research also addressed fostering innovation in transportation systems through public-private partnerships (e.g., in such areas as intelligent transportation systems, high-speed surface transportation, privatization of transportation infrastructure investment, and innovative transportation financing mechanisms), supported by the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (VNTSC), a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He later served as the interim coordinator of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at MIT.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Bozdogan worked for more than 20 years as a senior consultant, team leader, and manager at Arthur D. Little, Inc. He provided policy, strategic, and operational guidance to many corporations, government agencies, and organizations worldwide in areas such as as technology management, economic forecasting, economic development, industrialization strategy, energy and environmental policy, government regulation, and productivity improvement. He led efforts in the construction and use of a wide variety of econometric and mathematical simulation models for forecasting and policy assessment.

Dr. Bozdogan holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (regional planning-metropolitan regions), a master’s from Harvard University (city and regional planning), and a Ph.D. from MIT (uban studies and planning, with a concentration in economic development planning and urbanization). His doctoral research involved mathematical and empirical extensions of the basic Leontief model of interindustry buyer-seller interdependencies to enhance applications in such areas as multisectoral forecasting, industrial development programming, defense industrial mobilization, and policy impact analysis. 

He is a co-author of Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative, which received the Interrnational Academy of Astronautics Engineering Sciences Book Award in 2003. He is the principal author or co-author of other major publications as well as numerous professional reports, monographs, and working papers. He has given many invited lectures and public presentations and has served as a consultant to various organizations. He is a member of a number of professional and scientific associations and is listed in national and international scientific reference sources, such as the American Men and Women of Science and International Scholars Directory.        

Dr. Bozdogan is currently on leave to concentrate on a number of publications.