Kate Maguire

MBA, MSc Lean Enterprise

Senior Lecturer in Business and Management

Oxford Brookes Business School

Role

Kate is a Subject Co-Ordinator for the MBA programme. She is a Module Leader for both Postgraduate and Undergraduate modules.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

International Business Consultancy (Level 6)
Client Project (Level 7)
Consultancy Project (Level 7))
Entrepreneurial Theory and Practice (Level 7)
Project and Contract Management (Level 7)
Synoptic Research Project (Level 7)

Supervision

Supervision of MSc Dissertations and Client Projects

Publications

Other

Stuart, S., Adderley, S., and Maguire, K,. 2020 Creativity to Insight to Action: Linking Entrepreneurial Pedagogy to University Eco-Systems in Arroteia, N. Innovating in Teaching Enterprise, Business, and Management in HE, Dundee, Start Up Finance
Maguire, K. (2016), ‘Lean and IT – Working Together? An Exploratory Study of the Potential Conflicts between Lean Thinking and the Use of Information Technology in Organisations Today’, in , ed. ‘, , Understanding the Lean Enterprise, pp 31-77, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-319-19994-8

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

Further details

Kate has more than 25 years of extensive business experience acquired from working in a variety of roles within the automotive sector. She has worked in a large number of different functions including: Quality, Finance, Sales Administration, Operations, Information Systems and Continuous Improvement. Kate’s business career includes 17 years working at Harley-Davidson Europe, the European Headquarters of Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Her roles at Harley-Davidson included project managing the introduction of a new Europe-wide vehicle stocking system, Director of Information Systems for Harley-Davidson Europe, including being part of the Leadership Team of a complex SAP implementation project and, most recently, Director of Continuous Improvement for the Harley-Davidson International Markets.