FOO Check-Teck 
(Hanyu: Fu Jide) 
(Japanese: Fu Seki Toku)

Associate Professor
PhD (St Andrews, UK, 1990) MBA (Finance, City University, 1982) LLB (Hons., London), Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln's Inn), Advocate and Solicitor (Supreme Court of Singapore), FCMA, FCIM, ACIS, CPA, DDG (IBC, Cambridge, England), Cert-in-Productivity (Japan Productivity Center, Tokyo).. 
Tel: 6 790 5713
Email: mctfoo@ntu.edu.sg

Professional career: 1974-1988: Operations Officer (Singapore Armed Forces), Project Officer (Orient Leasing), Industrial Relations Advisor (Singapore National Employers Federation), Manager - Legal & Personnel (ABN Bank, Nederlands), Project Manager (Kl"o"ckner Industrie Analagen, Gmbh: MBA Project Finance, Duisburg, Germany), Pupil Lawyer, Assistant Director, Corporate Planning Unit (National Productivity Movement Strategy), Legal Officer and Management Trainer (Corporate Planning, Management, Legal and Finance) (National Productivity Board, SPRING) and joining NTI in 1988 as Lecturer (Ph.D. Candidate at University of St. Andrews).

International affiliations:
Senior Research Fellow in Strategic Management, University of St Andrews.
Honorary Research Professor of International Business, 
Copenhagen Business College, Denmark.
Visiting Professor of Technology Strategy,
New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA.
Visitiing Professor, Universiti Malaya (under ASEAN Distinguished Professorship program)
Deputy Director-General, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.
Advisor to American Biographical Institute, (Research Board Member)
Coordinator for Asia and Member of Board of Advisors, International Center for Corporate Identity Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Registered Consultant, United Nations.

Strategy, productivity and technology (management).

Journal publications: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Organization Studies, Omega International Journal of Management Science, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Technovation, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Long Range Planning, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, International Journal of Brand Management, Juridical Review, Malayan Law Journal, Singapore Law Reports, Law Gazette, Singapore Management Review, Malaysian Journal of Small and Medium Enterprises, Malaysia Management Review.
By invitations: Economuic Bulletin, Asian Banker Journal, Marketing Insights and Chartered Secretary (reprint). 

Major books: Organizing Strategy: Sun Tzu Business Warcraft, Butterworths-Heinemann, 1994
                                                      (with Professor Peter Hugh Grinyer) (UK Blackwell in Oxford
                                                        Spring's Choice and Book of the Month)
                      Reminiscences of an Ancient Strategist: Mind of Sun Tzu, Gower, 1997.
                                                      (Recommended by World Review, Forewords by Professor
                                                         Peter Grinyer and Professor de Claude Bettignies)
                      Thinking around Stratagems (with Dr FOO Check Tong): exploring alternative
                                                         formats (eg. video) for developing the strategic mind.

New research for potential PhD students, please submit project proposals as related to: 

(1) Brain as a metaphor for managing high technology firms
(2) Artifical firms: integrating mass customization, flexible manufacturing and automation.
(3) The Bio-informative society: meta analysis, relating research findings from ants, bees and 
      insects to human society
(4) Empirical leadership studies: statistical of imperial leaders, styles and bio-impacts eg. 
      CEO aging and CEO's gender on performance for high technology firms.
(5) Modeling of judicial decision making: articial judge (very innovative and novel).

Sample papers (pdf files):

Corporate Identity Strategy (Outstanding Paper Award, UK Literati Club)
The Neural Firm (Forthcoming; extensions on this work is most welcomed)

1969 Raffles Institution English Literature Prize
1973 Raffles "Best Play of the Year Award"; Director, Producer and Scriptwriter.
1981 City University of London Postgraduate Award for MBA in Finance.
1990 Editorship of "Productivity in Transition", Award winner.
Twice winners of UK Literati Club Awards for Excellence for Research Contributions 
      to Corporate Communications: An International Journal, (2000 Highly Commendable 
      Paper and 2002 Outstanding Paper)
Year 2002 Universal Award for Accomplishment, American Biographical Institute, USA.
Outstanding Professional Award for Strategy, American Biographical Institute, USA
Great Mind of the 21st Century, American Biographical Institute, USA
Honors List (10%) of 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, International 
       Biographical Center, Cambridge, England
Founder of the 21st Century, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.
One thousand Great Scholars, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.
One thousand Great Asians, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.

Public program: Singapore Institute of Management is implementing FOO Check Teck's
                           The Complete Art of War Series of Workshops for professional 
                            managers to sharpen and deepen theirs minds in mastering 
                            strategy (Tel: Dennis Koh; 6 248 9417)