‘Yılmaz’ means ‘dauntless’. ‘Argüden’ means ‘honorable’, ‘guide for integrity’ and is pronounced as ‘argue then’, as in the phrase “if you don’t agree, argue then.”
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Distinguished Leadership
Award

Dr. Yılmaz Argüden, Founder and Chairman of ARGE Consulting, was recognized with the Distinguished Industry Leadership Award by the International Industrial Engineering Society.

Industrial Engineering & Operations Management Society International (IEOM) gave Dr. Yılmaz Argüden, “The Distinguished Industry Leadership Award”.

Dr. Argüden received the award at a ceremony on March 10, 2022, organized at the Gala Dinner of Society’s 2022 Conference.

At the Awards Ceremony IEOM President Prof. Dr. Hamid Parsaei said that “This year’s conference has attracted over 1100 participants from over 60 countries and made significant scientific contributions to the development of industrial engineering profession.” He also thanked the Chair of the Award Jury Emeritus Prof. Dr. Abu Masud’a and congratulated the Frederick Taylor Award winner Dr. Adedeji Badiru.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Argüden pointed out that the “industrial engineering improves the quality of life and helps improve productivity through continuous improvements in all sectors and in future business areas like artificial intelligence” and said that “he was honored to receive this global professional award, as a person who started his career in industrial engineering in 1977, while he was still studying at Boğaziçi University.”

Based in Michigan State of USA, International Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society fosters critical thinking and its effective utilization in the field of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management globally by providing means to communicate and network among experts in the industry.

The Distinguished Industry Leadership Award is given to individuals who created a difference in the field of industrial engineering through their academic and professional leadership achievements and made unique contributions to the profession.

Dr. Argüden started his industrial engineering career at the R&D Center of the leading Turkish conglomerate, Koç Holding, in 1977 while he was still a student at the Boğaziçi University. He graduated from the Boğaziçi University in 1980, winning top Academic Achievement Award and continued his studies with a NATO scholarship at the RAND Graduate School where he has received his Ph.D. in policy analysis and strategy with General Distinction.

After working for the World Bank as a senior officer and serving as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Dr. Argüden has founded ARGE Consulting in 1991, which has become a globally recognized Turkish management consulting firm with its innovative management strategies and its contributions to society.

Dr. Argüden is also the Chairman of Rothschild & Co. investment bank in Türkiye and served on the boards of more than 70 companies in different countries.

He is an author of numerous books and articles focusing on business strategy and governance issues. He has served as an adjunct professor of strategy at the Boğazici University, Koç University, and the Military Academy.

As a renowned governance expert, he serves as the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Business at OECD, as a member of the IFC’s Corporate Governance Advisory Board, and as the Chairman of the Trustees of the Argüden Governance Academy.

March 11, 2022, Istanbul