See the new article by Prof. Anderson: Aspiring to Lead in Health Care Innovation: Health Care Initiative’s Director on Cutting Edge Work (McCombs Today).

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 the Director of the Healthcare@McCombs (formerly the McCombs Healthcare Initiative), which is 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;

• 30+ 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;

• Behavior of technical teams (a.k.a. team science);

• 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 Society. It is intended to recognize POMS 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

• 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
Director, Healthcare@McCombs (McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center) 
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
Edward "dot" Anderson "at" mccombs "dot" utexas "dot" edu
www.EdAnderson.info