Dr Konstantia Litsiou
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
I joined Manchester Metropolitan Business School in 2019. Before coming here, I worked as an Associate Lecturer in Salford Business School and as an Adjunct Associate Professor in marketing at ISCID-CO Business School, France. I have worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Finance and Economics, Greece. I have also worked in Public Relations, Advertising, Communication and Promotion Consultancy in private sectors both in the UK and in Greece for the best part of the last two decades.
I am the Programme Leader of MSc Marketing in Manchester Metropolitan Business School and a Visiting Researcher in forLab (www.forLAb.eu), The Forecasting Laboratory, in Bangor Business School.
I hold a PhD from Salford University, and my research focuses on forecasting the success of megaprojects with the use of judgmental forecasting techniques. My work has appeared in leading international journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Forecasting, Supply Chain Forum, Chartered Banker Magazine and the International Journal of Production Research.
Other academic service (administration and management)
Programme Leader - MSc Marketing
Prizes and awards
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Travel award to the 38th International Symposium on Forecasting from ISF 2018 Travel Award Committee; Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Membership of professional associations
I am a member of APM - the chartered body for the Project Management profession.
Associate membership of CMI
Teaching
I am leading and teaching the L6 unit “Project Management”
Supervision
UG Research Project supervision
PG Dissertation supervision
Research outputs
My research mainly falls into Forecasting methods and systems and more specific into individual and group judgemental forecasting methods, most notably variations of Structured Analogies , Delphi and Interaction Groups. Application areas vary from megaprojects, healthcare, humanitarian and retail operations.
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Reports
Litsiou, K., Nikolopoulos, K. Consumer payment choice during the crisis in Europe: a heterogeneous behaviour?. Bangor Business School.
Litsiou, K., Nikolopoulos, K. Social Collateral and consumer payment media during the economic crisis in Europe. Bangor Business School, Bangor University.
Vangumalli, D., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K. (2019) Clustering, Forecasting and Forecasting clusters: using k-medoids, k-NNs and random forests to improve forecasting. United Kingdom: Bangor Business School.
Litsiou, K., Nikolopoulos, K. (2019) When the bank is closed, the cash is king; ... not! A qualitative longitudinal study in the payment media used in Greece during and after the three-week period of governmentally-imposed Bank-holiday and respective capital controls. Bangor: Bangor University.
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Internet publications
Warren, E., Baird, C., Holmes, H., Garcia, R., Litsiou, K. (2023) Creating an international opportunity and enhancing all students’ sense of belonging to a global community. https://charteredabs.org/creating-an-international-opportunity-and-enhancing-all-students-sense-of-belonging-to-a-global-community/.
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Journal articles
Brookes, T., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K., Alghassab, W. (2024) 'Forecasting and planning for special events in the pulp and paper supply chains.' Supply Chain Forum, pp. 1-18.
Petropoulos, F., Apiletti, D., Assimakopoulos, V., Babai, M.Z., Barrow, D.K., Bergmeir, C., Bessa, R.J., Boylan, J.E., Browell, J., Carnevale, C., Castle, J.L., Cirillo, P., Clements, M.P., Cordeiro, C., Oliveira, F.L.C., Baets, S.D., Dokumentov, A., Fiszeder, P., Franses, P.H., Gilliland, M., Gönül, M.S., Goodwin, P., Grossi, L., Grushka-Cockayne, Y., Guidolin, M., Guidolin, M., Gunter, U., Guo, X., Guseo, R., Harvey, N., Hendry, D.F., Hollyman, R., Januschowski, T., Jeon, J., Jose, V.R.R., Kang, Y., Koehler, A.B., Kolassa, S., Kourentzes, N., Leva, S., Li, F., Litsiou, K., Makridakis, S., Martinez, A.B., Meeran, S., Modis, T., Nikolopoulos, K., Önkal, D., Paccagnini, A., Panapakidis, I., Pavía, J.M., Pedio, M., Pedregal, D.J., Pinson, P., Ramos, P., Rapach, D.E., Reade, J.J., Rostami-Tabar, B., Rubaszek, M., Sermpinis, G., Shang, H.L., Spiliotis, E., Syntetos, A.A., Talagala, P.D., Talagala, T.S., Tashman, L., Thomakos, D., Thorarinsdottir, T., Todini, E., Arenas, J.R.T., Wang, X., Winkler, R.L., Yusupova, A., Ziel, F. (2022) 'Forecasting: theory and practice.' International Journal of Forecasting, 38(3) pp. 705-871.
Vangumalli, D.R., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K. (2021) 'Aggregate selection, individual selection, and cluster selection : an empirical evaluation and implications for systems research.' Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, 52(7) pp. 553-578.
Katsagounos, I., Thomakos, D., Litsiou, K., Nikolopoulos, K. (2021) 'Superforecasting reality check: evidence from a small pool of experts and expedited identification.' European Journal of Operational Research, 289(1) pp. 107-117.
Punia, S., Nikolopoulos, K., Singh, S.P., Madaan, J.K., Litsiou, K. (2020) 'Deep learning with long short-term memory networks and random forests for demand forecasting in multi-channel retail.' International Journal of Production Research, 58(16) pp. 4964-4979.
Preindl, R., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K. (2020) 'Transformation Strategies for the Supply Chain: The Impact of Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation.' Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, 21(1) pp. 26-34.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Karami, A., Nikolopoulos, K. (2019) 'Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects.' International Journal of Forecasting, 38(3) pp. 1185-1196.
Karamaziotis, P.I., Raptis, A., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K., Assimakopoulos, V. (2019) 'An empirical investigation of water consumption forecasting methods.' International Journal of Forecasting, 36(2) pp. 588-606.
Nikolopoulos, K., Thomakos, D., Litsiou, K. (2019) 'Tricks of the forecasting trade.' Chartered Banker Magazine, (Summer 2019) pp. 44-45.
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Conference papers
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Nikolopoulos, K., Sapountzis, S. (2022) '‘Forecasting the success of Megaprojects and implications for inventory management’.' In 21st International Symposium on Inventories. Budapest, Hungary, 22/8/2022 - 26/8/2022.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Nikolopoulos, K. (2022) 'Forecasting the success of Megaprojects with Structured Analogies, Delphi and Interaction Groups: the role of experience and expertise.' In Euro 2022. Espoo, Finland, 3/7/2022 - 6/7/2022.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Sapountzis, S. (2021) 'Judgmental Forecasting for Megaprojects Structured Analogies versus Delphi and Interaction Groups.' In 2nd International Workshop on Forecasting for Social Good. Online format, 24/6/2021 - 25/7/2021.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Sapountzis, S. (2021) 'Forecasting the success of Megaprojects with structured analogies and interaction groups: The role of experience and expertise.' In 2nd International Workshop on Forecasting for Social Good. Online, 24/6/2021 - 25/6/2021.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Sapountzis, S., Nikolopoulos, K. (2021) 'Judgmental Forecasting for megaprojects: Structured analogies versus Delphi and Interaction Groups.' In POMS 31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Online, 30/4/2021 - 5/5/2021.
Alghassab, W., Nikolopoulos, K., Litsiou, K., Sapountzis, S. (2019) 'Long-Term Economic Forecasting with Structured Analogies and Interaction Groups.' 16/6/2019 - 19/6/2019. International Institute of Forecasters (IIF),
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Nikolopoulos, K. (2018) 'Forecasting for Social Good: Relative performance of methods for forecasting major projects.' In 24th IIF workshop in Cardiff. Cardiff, Wales, UK, 12/7/2018 - 13/7/2018.
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Nikolopoulos, K. (2018) 'Forecasting for Social Good: Relative performance of methods for forecasting major projects.' In International Symposium on Forecasting. Boulder, Colorado, USA, 16/6/2018 - 20/6/2018.