Kristanto is a founding partner and a commissioner of PQM Consultants. He is currently the executive director of the Business Innovation Center that he helped to establish in 2008; and is also a founding member of IFIC – The Indonesian Food Innovation Center.
Kristanto has been active in some professional organizations; as a member of the Indonesian Association of Industrial Engineers (ISTMI) where he was the director of ISTMI Membership, and currently a member of the ISTMI Council of Members. He is also a certified senior engineer (IPM) of the Association of Indonesian Engineers (PII), where he served as a member of the Profession Development Committee from 1994 to 2002; and as a member of the PII’s Assessor Council of Industrial Engineers. Kristanto is also one of the founding committee members of the School of Business Management of Bandung Institute of Technology (SBM-ITB), where he occasionally serves as guest lecturer.
He is a “veteran” business scholar in the area of strategic management, business processes, supply chains, and innovation management for over three decades; and an active writer on the practices of management in Indonesia. In 1998, he translated a quality management book entitled “Quality Means Survival” into Bahasa Indonesia entitled “Mutu atau Mati”. Kristanto has also worked with Prof. Rene Domingo from The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) on research in business strategies, which resulted in a book entitled “Turnaround Management, Best Practices from the Indonesian Experience”, that was published in English and Bahasa Indonesia in 2005. Kristanto has also conducted field research on the practices of supply chain management in Indonesia with Prof. Uche Okongwu from Toulouse School of Business (France). Their writing entitled “Supply Chain Management Practices in Two Different Cultural and Business Environments” was accepted as a presentation paper at the Academy of Management Meeting (AOM) in Philadelphia, USA (2007), and later was published in special issue of “the International Journal of Integrated Supply Management (IJISM)” on Logistics Management and the Asia Pacific in 2008.
Kristanto is still active in the promotion of business innovation in Indonesia through BIC, that was initially supported by the Ministry for Research and Technology (Ristek). Since 2008, he has organized more than fifteen annual nationwide innovation competitions, resulting in a series of publications known as “The 100+ Indonesia’s Innovations”, where he serves as chief editor. Internationally, Kristanto also serves as the Indonesia’s Innovation Ambassador at GIMI, the Global Innovation Management Institute.
Kristanto holds an industrial engineering degree from ITB (1977), and a master of science in agro-industrial management (with distinction) from the Arthur D. Little School of Management, Cambridge, USA (1982). Prior to founding PQM Consultants in 1987, Kristanto started his career as a technical consultant at SGV Utomo Consultants (1978), then as a corporate development and planning executive at Kalbe Group (1980); a project manager, then acting as general manager at PT Martina Berto Sari Ayu (1980 – 1981); general manager at PT Tatas Mulia (1984); and then as managing director at PT Bukit Manikam Sakti (1986).
