Tony O'Driscoll Biography

Tony O'Driscoll teaches and does research in the fields of strategy, innovation and technology management, organization learning, services management, and management consulting at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. During his 18-year career in the industry, Dr. O'Driscoll held several leadership positions with IBM and Nortel Networks in the fields of strategic business planning, new product and service development, services science, and business model understanding. He also serves as Executive Director of Fuqua's Center for Technology, Entertainment and Media (CTEM), a research center dedicated to understanding the strategic, structural, operational, and business model issues in these dynamic and unstable sectors. The Strategy and Change consulting practice at IBM Global Services was founded by Tony. In that capacity, he advised corporate executives from all over the world on how to build sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly interconnected, global, and knowledge-based economy. O'Driscoll has a wealth of expertise in using technology to foster long-term organizational growth and profitability during his career in the sector. The convergence of business, innovation, technology, and learning is the focus of O'Driscoll's study. His current work studies how companies adapt and change in an increasingly tumultuous and uncertain business environment as well as how new technology might quickly disrupt existing industry structures and business strategies. The most recent book written by Tony, Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration, explores how the burgeoning immersive Internet is changing how organizations manage their human capital. Leading scholarly magazines including Management Information Sciences Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management have published his research. In addition, he has had articles published in reputable trade publications including the Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Strategy and Business, and Supply Chain Management Review. Dr. O'Driscoll is regularly asked to speak at conferences held by businesses and universities. At more than a hundred national and international conferences, he has served as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, moderator, speaker, and panelist. The Human Resource Planning Society's (HRPS) Global Conference, Nielsen's Training Leadership Summit, the Society for Information Management's (SIM) Advanced Practices Council, and Businessweek's Breakthrough Conference are a few representative conferences that have been scheduled. Additionally, Tony routinely does interviews and offers expert analysis for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Wired, Virtual Worlds News, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Training Magazine, and for market research firms like Gartner and Forrester. Dr. O'Driscoll does official speaking engagements, conducts research, and runs a thriving consultancy business. Fortune 500 firms from a variety of sectors, including high technology, biotechnology, software development, gaming, energy, retail, and professional services, are among his clients. Dr. O'Driscoll is an educator. an M.S. in organizational learning. from North Carolina State University, in management. His B.S. is a graduate of Virginia Tech in electrical engineering.

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