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Christopher Meyer |
Christopher Meyer is Chief Executive of Monitor Networks and writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments. His most recent book is It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business. He has also co-authored Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth with Stan Davis, and contributed to publications such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Business 2.0.
Chris’ recent research and consulting have focused on the development of the Adaptive Enterprise, helping companies create the capacity to sense, respond, and adapt to changes in their business environments.
Prior to joining The Monitor Group, Chris was the Director of the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, from 1995 until its closing in December 2002. The Center fostered the conversation of leading issues among the business community, developed public conferences, established new services and businesses, and shared what it learned with business practitioners. At the CBI, he founded and served on the Board of the Bios Group, a venture that invested in applications of complexity theory to business.
Before joining Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he was a Vice President and Group Head at Mercer Management Consulting, where from 1984 to 1995 he founded and built the firm’s practice in the information industries, comprising telecommunications, hardware, software, and information services and media.
Chris holds a B.A. in both Mathematics and Economics from Brandeis University and a M.B.A. (with Distinction) from The Harvard Business School. In addition, he held a University Predoctoral Fellowship in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania .
He serves on the Board of Icosystem, the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, the Mass Nanotech Exchange, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, and the advisory Boards of LaunchCyte and Corey McPherson Nash.
For a rich, insider view of Chris, please visit his profile pages at Monitor Talent's web site (http://www.monitortalent.com/
talent/profile_meyer.html), or contact his agent Jacqueline Lewis directly at (617)252-2022.
complete publication List
2007, Christopher Meyer's Complete Publication List (PDF 42k)
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Books:
May 2003, Crown Business
It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business, by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
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April 2000, Harvard Business School Press
Future Wealth, by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer buy the book
April 1998, Perseus Press
Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy, by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer buy the book
Articles:
October 2007, The Journal of Life Sciences, “A Turning Point,” by Christopher Meyer and Joan Chu
February 2004, Harvard Business Review
“Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Biological Block”
02-09-04, Computerworld, Reprinted in Computerworld Brazil
Anthes, Gary (Interview): “Rushing Toward Chaos”
February 2004, Wired
“The New Facts of Life”
Jan 2003, Fast Company
“Data Donors,” in Idea Fest: 23 Bright Ideas for a Stellar 2003
November 2002, CIO Insight, No. 20
“The Accelerating Enterprise”
Fall 2002, MIT Sloan Management Review
“Survival Under Stress”
September 2002, Consulting Magazine
contributor to “Once Around the Sun”
08-01-02, Harvard Business Review
“Search Parties,” by Christopher Meyer and Rudy Ruggles
July-August 2001, Harvard Business Review
“While Customers Wait, Add Value”
05-01-01, Harvard Business Review
“Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business,” by Eric Bonabeau and Christopher Meyer
October-November 2000, UK & USA,
“Playing it Safe is Over,” by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
05-22-00, Time
“What Will Replace the Tech Economy,” by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
March-April 2000, Journal of Business Strategy
“The Pursuit of Health, Wealth, and Risk”
January-February 2000, Worldlink
“Ahead of the Game”
January 2000, U.S. News & World Report
“Inventing the Digital Future,” by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
Contributions:
2005, Elsevier
“Innovation Happens Elsewhere,” by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel. Forward, p. xv-xviii
2005, Penguin Group
The Big Moo, by Seth Godin. Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Efficient, p. 52-56.
December 2003
Seeking Responses in Times of Uncertainty, Proceedings of the 33rd ISC-Symposium at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
“It’s Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business”
2000, Capstone
“The Role of Knowledge in the Connected Economy,” in The Knowledge Advantage, by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
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