Description
Professor Wolcott of the Kellogg School of
Management explains his work, with colleague Andrew Razeghi, on how multiple
emerging technologies impact the ways established businesses must operate to
succeed in competitive environments experiencing faster, more diverse and more
volatile change. Most of the technologies making headlines today allow
the broader distribution of capabilities, resources, agency and intelligence,
eventually challenging business models and even market structures across industries.
Contributors
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Robert C. Wolcott, PhD, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), Kellogg School of Management; Partner, Clareo Partners LLC
Wolcott is Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) and a Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and formerly a visiting professor at the Keio Business School (Japan). Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013 and 2014. He has served on the advisory boards of Nordic Innovation for the Nordic Council, Oslo, Norway; the Kraft Foods Global Technology Council (GTC); and GE’s Innovation Accelerator. Wolcott is also a partner with Clareo, a growth strategy consultancy serving senior executives at global corporations such as Exelon, Castrol, Johnson Controls, Baker Hughes and others.
His book with Dr. Michael Lippitz, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) shares a decade of research and has been published in Chinese and Japanese. Wolcott’s work has appeared in MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Business Week, The Financial Times (European Edition), The New York Times and numerous overseas publications. He is a frequent speaker at events worldwide.
In 2003, Wolcott founded the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), a network of senior executives dedicated to driving sustainable innovation. The KIN’s annual summit, KIN Global, takes place in late spring and includes leaders from around the world who collaborate around issues of significance for their organizations and for humanity (www.kinglobal.org). Wolcott is also an active angel investor in enterprises such as crowd funding leader IndieGogo (www.indiegogo.com), student loan innovator Lumni (www.lumni.net), and healthcare data and analytics providers SA Ignite (www.saignite.com) and ClearCare Online (www.clearcareonline.com).
Wolcott received a BA, European and Chinese History; and an MS and Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University.