Meet the Team
Our Staff
The staff are based within the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde (DMEM).
Margo Hutchison - Project Co-ordinator
Margo manages membership relations and communications including the website and newsletters, and organises events. She manages all member communications, tracking down the most obscure requests and putting people in touch with each other. She enjoys meeting members at our own events, and represents competitiveScotland.com and DMEM at a variety of promotional events.
Margo was competitiveScotland.com's first employee in 2001. Her background is in information technology, having spent many years in the electricity supply industry as a software developer and business systems analyst. She is a foreign languages graduate of Glasgow University and subsequently gained an IT qualification from Napier University. She uses both her IT skills and her languages skills in her present position, which pleases her no end.
DIRECTOR
Professor Umit S. Bititci - Director of the Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management (SIOM)
The founder of competitiveScotland.com, Umit holds a senior position in the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) at the University of Strathclyde. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Operations Management (IOM) and chair of the Manufacturing sub-committee of the West of Scotland branch of IEE. He has extensive industrial and business experience, and his interests include Business Performance Improvement Methods, Operations Strategy, Total Quality Management and Performance Measurement.
As the Director of SIOM, he is responsible for the development and delivery of various research, development and technology transfer programmes to improve industrial performance. Umit has conducted consultancy and training assignments with clients in the UK, Europe, Asia and USA in many industrial sectors.