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Position

Visiting Research Fellow

Affiliation

Dr Michał Sobótka

Michał Sobótka is a visiting Research Fellow at the Institute's Centre for Strategy and Performance.

He currently works for the energy company EWE AG in Oldenburg, Germany, where he coordinates strategic initiatives in the area of gas and electricity distribution networks.

Before taking up his fulltime role at EWE, Michał led industrial trials of IfM's Business Strategy Tool, a new approach for the analysis and formulation of business strategy for small and medium enterprises and for single business units of multinational corporations.

The development of IfM's Business Strategy Tool was informed by Michał's prior research on enterprise planning , strategic modeling and performance management in collaboration with the Centre's corporate partners.

Background

Before joining the Institute in 2003, Michał gained engineering experience in Germany at EWE and Volkswagen. He studied management at UC Berkeley (USA), electronics at UAS Cologne and RWTH Aachen (Germany), and computer science at Warsaw UT (Poland). At Cambridge, Michał conducted his research in the IfM firstly as a doctoral student and later as a postdoctoral Research Associate. His doctorate was awarded by the University of Cambridge in 2008.

Publications

• K.W. Platts and Sobótka, M. (2010) "When the uncountable counts: An alternative to monitoring employee performance”, Business Horizons. Volume 53, Issue 1, pp.349-357
• Sobótka, M. and Platts, K.W. (2010) "Managing without measuring: a study of an electricity distribution company", Measuring Business Excellence. Volume 14, Issue 1, pp.28-42
• Sobótka, M. and Platts, K.W. (2007) "The Role of Performance Measurement in Management of Energy Suppliers: Indications from Germany and California", International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. Volume 7, Issue 3, pp.87-98
• Sobótka, M., Platts, K.W. & Pavey M.J. (2006) "Without measuring it you can manage it: Indications from a high-performing German energy supplier". Paper presented at the 5th PMA Conference, 25-28 July 2006 London, UK. In proceedings pp. 713-720
• Sobótka, M. and Platts, K.W. (2006) "Levers For Operational Excellence: The Case of Performance Measurement in Network Utilities". Paper presented at 14th Working Seminar of Production Economics 20-24 February 2006 Innsbruck, Austria.
• Sobótka, M. (2006) "Role of performance measurement in management of energy suppliers: indications from Germany and California". Paper presented at the 3rd EEM Conference, 24-26 May 2006, Warsaw
• Sobótka, M. and Platts, K.W. (2005) "Paradise and Power: Performance Measurement on Both Sides of the Atlantic", in Proceedings of the 5th EurOMA Congress on Operations and International Competitiveness, UK. In vol. 1 of proceedings, pp 1093-1102
• Sobótka, M. and Gornik, W. (2003) "Innovative Lighting System for Quality Controlling of Raw Car Body Parts" in Scientific Reports of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne Vol.1