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.

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.”

• Jay Wright Forrester Award

  Given by the System Dynamics Society for: “Best publication in the field in the past five years.”

Recent Articles in the Press

• How to Manage the Innovation Butterfly (McCombs Today).

• 5 ways to turn your business plan into a revenue-generating company (Built in Austin)

• Aspiring to Lead in Health Care Innovation: Health Care Initiative’s Director on Cutting Edge Work (McCombs Today).

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