Christopher Meyer (author)
Encyclopedia
Christopher Meyer is an innovator
, business builder, author
, founder of Monitor Talent (part of Monitor Group
), and thought leader on the future of the global economy. He is listed as one of the Top 200 Business Gurus in Thomas H. Davenport
's book What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking, and was on the cover of Consulting Magazine's June 2001 issue on The Truth About R&D. His work is dedicated to anticipating and shaping the future of business.
, and a M.B.A. with Distinction from The Harvard Business School. In addition, he held a University Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
.
From 1995 until December 2002, Meyer was the Director of the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He transformed the Center from an institutional university model to a networked research capability, anticipating issues from the "global, mobile, always-on" network to the rising importance of intangible assets. While at the Center, Meyer also founded and served on the Board of the Bios Group, a venture with Santa Fe Institute
Stuart Kauffman
that invested in applications of complexity theory to business.
In 2004, Meyer founded and became Chief Executive of Monitor Networks, a Monitor Group
company; in 2006 he founded Monitor Talent, a business based on the view of markets for human capital contained in his book Future Wealth.
Meyer serves on the Boards of Icosystem, the Bankinter Foundation for Innovation, the Business Innovation Factory, and the New Repertory Theatre, and the Advisory Boards of Innocentive and LaunchCyte.
Best Seller Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy, Future Wealth, and It’s Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review
site, and has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review
, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company
, TIME
, The Wall Street Journal
, and BusinessWeek
. His fourth book, Standing on the Sun, about how capitalism evolves as the economic center of gravity shifts to low-income, fast-growth, digital-native economies, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in November 2011.
Innovator
An innovator in a general sense, is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.-History:...
, business builder, author
Author
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, founder of Monitor Talent (part of Monitor Group
Monitor Group
Monitor Group is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and with 27 offices in 26 major cities around the world. It provides strategy consultation services to the senior management of organizations and governments...
), and thought leader on the future of the global economy. He is listed as one of the Top 200 Business Gurus in Thomas H. Davenport
Thomas H. Davenport
Thomas H. Davenport is an American academic and author specializing in business process innovation and knowledge management...
's book What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking, and was on the cover of Consulting Magazine's June 2001 issue on The Truth About R&D. His work is dedicated to anticipating and shaping the future of business.
Education
Meyer holds BAs in both Mathematics and Economics from Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, and a M.B.A. with Distinction from The Harvard Business School. In addition, he held a University Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
.
Career
From 1984 to 1995, Meyer was a Vice President and Group Head at Mercer Management Consulting, where he founded and built the firm's practice in the information industries, comprising telecommunications, hardware, software, and information services and media.From 1995 until December 2002, Meyer was the Director of the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He transformed the Center from an institutional university model to a networked research capability, anticipating issues from the "global, mobile, always-on" network to the rising importance of intangible assets. While at the Center, Meyer also founded and served on the Board of the Bios Group, a venture with Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.The Institute houses a...
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher concerning the origin of life on Earth...
that invested in applications of complexity theory to business.
In 2004, Meyer founded and became Chief Executive of Monitor Networks, a Monitor Group
Monitor Group
Monitor Group is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and with 27 offices in 26 major cities around the world. It provides strategy consultation services to the senior management of organizations and governments...
company; in 2006 he founded Monitor Talent, a business based on the view of markets for human capital contained in his book Future Wealth.
Meyer serves on the Boards of Icosystem, the Bankinter Foundation for Innovation, the Business Innovation Factory, and the New Repertory Theatre, and the Advisory Boards of Innocentive and LaunchCyte.
Writing
Meyer has published three books about adaptive enterprise and network-based innovation, including the BusinessWeekBusinessWeek
Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
Best Seller Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy, Future Wealth, and It’s Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...
site, and has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...
, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company
Fast Company (magazine)
Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and reports on topics including innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility...
, TIME
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, and BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek
Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
. His fourth book, Standing on the Sun, about how capitalism evolves as the economic center of gravity shifts to low-income, fast-growth, digital-native economies, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in November 2011.