Expertise

Manufacturing systems.
Mass customisation.
Programme management.

Overview

Janet Smart joined the Saïd Business School in 2007 to work within the BT Centre for Major Programme Management. Janet helped set up the BT Centre and the MSc in Major Programme Management, which admitted its first cohort of students in 2009, and has since grown to be one of the most successful programmes of its kind in the world.

Janet was nominated as one of project management’s top 10 Movers and Shakers in the Daily Telegraph, May 2010, has been featured in Project magazine, and has been recently nominated as one to watch in Project Management Today, March 2011. Janet was invited to give a keynote address at the PMI Congress in Athens in November 2010.

Janet’s research and teaching at the Saïd Business School have been in the area of Systems Engineering. Janet is particularly interested in new methods which are being devised to cope with large-scale, long-term, high complexity development projects. Her particular interest is in Big Science projects, particularly the ATLAS Experiment and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Janet has been undertaking a programme of research to investigate the cultural and leadership roles within the community of scientists and engineers at this unique and world-leading facility.

Before joining Saïd, Janet spent almost twenty years in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University. Her research there was in measuring and modelling the complexity of manufacturing systems, developing and applying an information-theoretic approach to the structural and dynamic complexity of manufacturing systems and supply chains. She supervised several DPhil and Masters theses, and she and her co-workers continue to publish on this topic.

With Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Saïd Business School) and Professor Neil Johnson (then Professor of Physics at Oxford), Janet set up the Cabdyn research cluster, to investigate Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks. This research centre has developed to become a world-leading centre for research on complex systems, gaining many substantial national and international grants, under the leadership of Dr Reed-Tsochas.

Janet did her undergraduate degree in Physics at Oxford University, and her PhD in computing at the University of Durham.

1. Sivadasan, S., Smart, J.,  Huaccho Huatuco L, and Calinescu A,  “Operational complexity and supplier-customer integration: case study insights and complexity rebound”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol 61, Issue 12, pages 1709-1718, December 2010.
2. Huaccho Huatuco L, Efstathiou J, Calinescu A,  Sivadasan S and Kariuki S., “Comparing the impact of different rescheduling strategies on the entropic-related complexity of manufacturing systems”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 47, Issue 15, pages 4305 – 4325, January 2009.
3. Smart, J. and Kito, T., “Organizational structures for managing major programmes”, 28th International Conference on Organizational Science Development: New technologies, new challenges, March 25th -27th, Portoroz, Slovenia.
4. “Project Networking”, Project, pp21-22, December 2008/January 2009.
5. Saavedra, S., Efstathiou, J., and Reed-Tsochas, F., “Identifying the Underlying Structure and Dynamic Interactions in a Voting Network”, Physica A, Vol 377, pp672-688, 2007.
6. Wu, Y., Frizelle G., and Efstathiou, J.,”A study of the operational complexity in customer-supplier systems”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol 106, pp 217-229, March 2007.
7. Zhang, T. and Efstathiou, J., “The complexity of mass customization systems under different inventory strategies”, International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 19, Issue 5, pp423-433, July 2006.
8. Sivadasan S., J. Efstathiou, A. Calinescu and L. Huaccho Huatuco “Advances on measuring the operational complexity of supplier–customer systems”, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 171, Issue1, 208-226, January 2006.
9. Fenn, D., Suleman, O., Efstathiou, J. and Johnson, N., “How does Europe Make Its Mind Up? Connections, cliques, and compatibility between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest”, Physica A, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505071, Volume 360, Issue 2, 1 February 2006, Pages 576-598.
10. Yu, S.B. and Efstathiou, J., “Complexity in rework cells: theory, analysis and comparison, Journal of the Operational Research Society, available online 6 July 2005, Vol. 57, Iss. 5; p. 593, May 2006.
11. Ng Alex K S, J Efstathiou and Henry Y K Lau, A Load Scattering Algorithm for Dynamic Routing of  Automated Material Handling Systems, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Y. Wang, Y. Cheung and H. Liu (Eds), 2006, LNAI 4456, pp 704-713, 2007.
12. Lu, W., Efstathiou, J. and del Valle Lehne, E., “Customer service level in a lean inventory under mass customization” in Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions, eds. Thorsten Blecker and Gerhard Friedrich, Springer 2006, pp 233-250.
13. Efstathiou, J., del Valle Lehne, E, Zhang, T., Mchunu, C., de Alwis, A. and Lu W. “Mass Customisation”, in “E-Manufacturing: Fundamentals and Applications”, ed. Kai Cheng, WIT Press, pp171-193, 2005.
14. Efstathiou, J. Zhang, T., “Future direction on Mass Customization Research and Practices: A research agenda”, in Mass Customization: A Supply Chain Approach”, eds. A. Kamrani and C. Chandra, Kluwer, 2005, pp 237-259.
15. S Sivadasan, J Efstathiou, A. Calinescu and L Huaccho Huatuco “Supply Chain Complexity”, in Understanding Supply Chains, eds. S. New and R. Westbrook, OUP, 2004.
16. Wang H., Guo M., and Efstathiou J.; “A game-theoretic cooperative mechanism for a two-echelon decentralized supply chain, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol 157, pp372-388, September 2004.
17. C Mchunu, A. de Alwis, J. Efstathiou, “Data Acquisition Framework to Aid in Selecting a Best Fit Mass Customization Strategy”, in The Customer Centric Enterprise: Advances in Mass Customization and Personalization, Editors: M. M. Tseng and F. T. Piller, Springer, 2003.
18. Frizelle G. and Efstathiou J.; The Urge to Integrate, Manufacturing Engineer, August/ September, pp10-13, 2003
19.  Efstathiou J. and Calinescu A.; Response to A Makui, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 54, pp. 557-558, May 2003.
20. J Efstathiou,“The Utility of Complexity”, Manufacturing Engineer, April, 2002.
21.  J Efstathiou, A Calinescu and G Blackburn “A web-based expert system to assess the complexity of manufacturing organizations”, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol 18 (3-4), pp 305-311, August 2002.
22.  S Sivadasan, J Efstathiou, G Frizelle, R Shirazi, and A Calinescu, “An Information-Theoretic Methodology for Measuring the Operational Complexity of Supplier-Customer Systems”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol 22, No. 1, pp. 80-102, 2002.
23. J Efstathiou, A Calinescu, S Kariuki, S Sivadasan, L Huaccho Huatuco “What manufacturing wants from scheduling”, Invited talk in Proceedings of International Symposium on Scheduling, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2002.
24. Calinescu, A. and Efstathiou, J., “Measures of Network Structure”, to appear in Encyclopaedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, eds. G. Putnik and M. Cunha, 2001.
25. J Efstathiou and P Golby, “Application of a simple method of cell design accounting for product demand and operation sequence”, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol 12, #4, pp246-257, 2001.

(Publications before 2008 are in the name Efstathiou)