Roger Martin Joins BIF Research Advisory Council

Posted by Chris Flanagan on December 12, 2008

I'm thrilled to announce that Roger Martin, Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has been appointed to our Research Advisory Council. Roger is a champion of innovation, cross-disciplinary study and the burgeoning field of integrative thinking. One of the most respected business minds in the world today, he's is also changing the face of business education. In 2007 he was named a BusinessWeek 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world.

BusinessWeek also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005, and in 2004, he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award. The late Peter Drucker said, "What the Rotman School is doing may be the most important thing happening in management education today.”

Roger's research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, business design and corporate citizenship and he writes regularly on these topics as a regular columnist for BusinessWeek Online's Innovation and Design Channel. He has also written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published three books: The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets -- And the Rest of Us -- Can Harness The Power of True Partnership and The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, with Mihnea Moldoveanu. His next book called The Design of Business and will be published by Harvard Business School Press in October 2009.

We’re privileged to welcome Roger to our Advisory Council. He has spent a career exploring and teaching how organizations can build, grow and sustain themselves. His understanding of and approach to business model innovation will benefit our community greatly.

“The Business Innovation Factory is addressing one of the essential components to the business model innovation process—experimentation. While most business model innovators are both willing and enthusiastic abut wading into complexity, they still need reliable testing procedures that demonstrate the validity of their new models. The platform BIF is developing provides an opportunity for innovators to explore and experiment with creative “what might be” solutions in a real-world environment.” ~Roger Martin

RELATED BIF CONTENT

• Innovation Story Studio: Listen to my podcast interview with Roger Martin
• Blog: If you Want to Learn about Innovation, Head to Toronto

OTHER RELATED CONTENT

• Read BusinessWeek article Design Thinking at Rotman: A design approach to the credit crisis
• Head to the Rotman School of Management Website
• Get the latest issue of the Rotman Magazine. (One of the best business school publications out there.)