Profile

Dr Gyasi is a Business Analytics expert and is also a certified Prince2 Project Manager with huge experience in project cost control. Dr Gyasi is currently a Lecturer in Business Analytics at Coventry Business School. His 8 years with Coventry University saw him joined in 2013 as Hourly Paid Lecturer for 3 years before becoming a full lecturer in Operations, Management and Leadership at CU Coventry from 2016-2018.  He has extensive teaching experience in the UK higher education sector. He has also taught at leading academic institutions such as North Warwickshire and Hinckley College and the University of Warwick. Dr Gyasi worked as a business intelligence analyst at Kwamanman Rural bank, Ghana. He is a Fellow of Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

My passion is to help both in theory and practice by informing business decisions, providing insights into the future and solve industrial, societal problems etc. using data. My research interests and scope are in the following areas:

• Big Data and business decisions using Quantitative techniques and analysis
• Business forecasting using Predictive Modelling and analytic techniques-(Ordinary Least Squares, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Neural Networks)
• Business modelling, Operations & cost management using Multi Criteria Decision Modelling (Bayesian, Fuzzy System, AHP, Scenario Planning etc.)
• Business strategy and analytics using Statistical methods and econometric analysis (SPSS, Advanced Excel etc.)
• Operational improvement, Business performance optimization

Dr Gyasi welcomes PhD proposals in the listed above and any other related areas.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD Operations Management and Decision Science- The University of Warwick (2016)

MSc. Petroleum Economics- Coventry University (2012)

BA (Hons) Economics- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2009)

PGCert Academic Practice in Higher Education (APHE)- Coventry University (2019)

Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education- The University of Warwick (2015)

PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified- Coventry University (2011)

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate Modules

108SAM Quantitative Methods for Business

1004SSL Business Analytics

6007SSL Management of e-commerce

351SAM Undergraduate Supervision

Postgraduate Modules

7033SSL Business Modelling

M09SSL   The Postgraduate Dissertation/Consultancy Project

M109SSL  The Postgraduate Research Project

Administrative Duties

• Associate Course Director, Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA)
• Timetabling Coordinator (Undergraduate), School of Strategy and Leadership
• Academic Conduct Officer, Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA)
• Progress Coach, School of Strategy and Leadership