Edward Anderson is Mr. & Mrs. William F. Wright, Jr. Centennial Professor for Innovative Technology at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and is past Director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, which was a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. He is an acknowledged expert in the dynamics of complex systems in organizational contexts.
Dr. Anderson is the author or co-author of:
The Innovation Butterfly: Managing Emergent Opportunities and Disruptions Under Distributed Innovation, which describes leadership metrics, planning, and organization in the complex adaptive system that is innovation management;
Operations Management for Dummies, a primer on operations management for BBA and MBA students as well as business professionals;
40+ published research articles.
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Research interests
Healthcare delivery systems, information, and process improvement;
Platform industries, such as smartphones, electronic health records, and videogame consoles;
Management of distributed innovation, including outsourcing and offshoring, across the supply chain;
Project management, including agile project management;
Performance Improvement, including behavior of technical teams;
Computer simulation, including system dynamics and agent-based model computer simulation.
Education
B.A.S. (Majors: Electrical Engineering, History), Stanford University, 1988
Ph.D. (Management Science, Computer Simulation), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
Awards
Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society
“The Most Prestigious Honor in the [Production and Operations Management] Society. It is intended to recognize Society members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to our profession and Society through their research and teaching.”
Given by the System Dynamics Society for: “Best publication in the field in the past five years.”
Recent Articles in the Press
Contact Information:
Edward G. Anderson Jr., Ph.D.
Wright Centennial Professor for Management of Innovative Technologies
Past President, Production and Operations Management Society
Information, Risk, & Operations Management Dept.,
University of Texas McCombs School of Business
B6500, CBA 5.202, 2110 Speedway Avenue, Austin, TX 78712
Ph: 512 471 6394
EdAnderson@utexas.edu
www.EdAnderson.org