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John Seely
Brown is currently a visiting scholar at USC and prior to that he was
the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC)-a position he held for nearly two decades.
While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to
include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management,
complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape and
nano technology. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on
Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the impact of
globalization on business, the management of radical innovation, digital
culture, ubiquitous computing and organizational and individual learning.
He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and Polycom) and private boards of directors. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and again in 2002 for his article "Your Next IT Strategy. In 2004 he was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002. His most recent book with John Hagel - The Only Sustainable Edge - is about new forms of collaborative innovation. It also provides a novel framework for understanding what is really happening in off-shoring in India and China and how each are inventing powerful new ways to innovate, learn and accelerate capability building. JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. Honorary Degrees:
JSB is an avid reader, traveler and motorcyclist. Part scientist, part artist and part strategist, JSB's views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress.
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About
John Seely Brown 