Dr CJ Meadows

One of Asia's Top 10 Women in IT, Dr CJ Meadows leads a Design Thinking & Innovation Center at SP Jain School of Global Management, creating growth initiatives at the intersection of IT, business strategy, and design. Her research, consulting, and coaching focus on Leadership & Creativity. She co-founded an Advanced Technology Think Tank & Tinker Lab, envisioning the Future of Work (FoW) and Education, applying AI, biometrics, and other advanced technologies to leadership development, team productivity, and group innovation.

She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration & IT from Harvard Business School and has over 20 years’ experience in Asia, Europe, and North America as a consultant, coach, entrepreneur, dot-com builder, innovation lab co-founder, and Accenture IT & Business Strategy consultant.

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Innovation and Design Thinking

Learn how the world’s top design consultancy creates new products and services people really want

Duration: 30 Hours

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Has taught at INSEAD, Harvard, Asian Institute of Management and National University of Singapore and for MNCs, both privately and with Singapore Management University

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Co-Principal of MMA Consulting & MMA Family Office
Serial Entrepreneur, multi-industry across three continents
Executive Director, Chair, and Co-Founder of The Tiger Center, a groundbreaking social enterprise in central India
Director & Strategist – Scient (now part of Razorfish)
Accenture IT practice (Washington, DC) & Strategy Practice (Singapore/Asia)

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High-Impact Solutions (multimedia book)
2020. De Gruyter. (available on Amazon)

Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy from combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology, and the arts can release massive value — creating whole new companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are presented in this unique collection of stories. This book is a global research study of 30 world-class innovators who have collectively created billions of dollars’ worth of business value, as well as new advances in the arts and sciences that bring joy to the world and can save millions of lives. Insights from the journeys of the innovators provided in this book will help leaders, organisations, and individuals succeed in their innovative endeavours. In addition, each chapter provides a link to a short video that provides further insights, mostly from the innovators themselves.

Innovation through Fusion is essential reading for individual innovators who would like to create the future; teams and organisations that need to craft radical or high-value innovations (especially across organisational silos); and leaders concerned about declining returns on innovation efforts and uncertain about organisational survival in a disruptive world. The author provides a new model of lateral innovation — useful both as an innovation process and as a framework to assess your lateral innovation capabilities. The book is replete with value-creation examples of lives saved, billions of dollars of savings/growth, and new products, services, and companies, as well as stories of leading lateral innovators—who they are and how they succeeded.
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Innovation Through Fusion: High-Value Lateral Innovation Intro (audio/video book/community)
2020. Gnowbe Group, Ltd. (available on Gnowbe and Amazon)

This book introduces you to the "next wave" of innovation – high-value fusions across industries, fields, technologies, nations, social classes, and more. You'll learn why it's important, how it's done, and examples of world-class lateral innovation.
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Innovation Through Fusion: Method, Stories, and Community (audio/video book/community)
2020. Gnowbe Group, Ltd. (available on Gnowbe and Amazon)

How can we create big value again with innovation, and what will humans do, anyway, in the age of robots? We’ll cross the boundaries we’ve set up – boundaries of industry, field, nation, and more – and create the radical, novel, and unexpected.

But how? Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy from combining two nuclei, a Fusion in business, technology, and the arts can release massive value – creating whole new companies, industries, and human capabilities. These 30 “Fusioneers” have done it. Their stories are here, with a framework and insights, so more of us might create more good in the world, as they have – with Fusion.
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Developing Future Skilled Workforce to Manage Business and Society.
7th International Symposium on Creativity For Sustainable Education, Jyväskylän, Finland, 20 - 21 April 2020. Authors: Charvi Parikh, K. Maddulety, CJ Meadows.
Improving Creative Ability of Base of Pyramid (BOP) Students
Thinking Skills and Creativity. Vol. 36, June 2020, 100652. Authors: Charvi Parikh, K. Maddulety, CJ Meadows.
"Fusion - Cross Domain Research on Cross Domain Innovation" Proceedings of the 2nd UUM Qualitative Research Conference (QRC), 2016
"What Do Harvard, Calcutta Slums, Fundamentalists, and Mouse Designers Have in Common? Reaching Out to Educate the World" Harvard Education Review (submitted)
"Chaos, Fusion, & Design Thinking" Career360
"When Robots Take My Job" Career360
Why My Blonde Son Thought He Was Chinese: The Fusion Family, TEDx, 2015
A Week in Kanha: Tigers & Others in India, The Tiger Center, 2009
Tigers in the Living Forest: Wildlife of Kanha, India, The Tiger Center, 2009
Sharks in the Living Seas: Wildlife of Our World's Oceans, The Tiger Center, 2009
"Building Competitive Advantage in the Knowledge eConomy", Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation. Yogesh Malhotra (ed). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2001.
White paper: Mapping & Mining Your Core Competence: The Knowledge Matrix. Andersen Consulting, 1999.
White paper: Putting Strategy into Risk Management. Andersen Consulting, 1999.
For discussion series: Managing Risk Strategically: The Case for a Chief Risk Officer. Andersen Consulting, 1999.
Corporate Risk Management: A Strategic and Operational Approach. Asian Institute of Management, JBF Banking Centre Working Paper Series, 1999.
"Managing Successful International Business Relationships." The Asian Manager, January 1999.
"Managing eTeams." The Asian Manager, January 1998.
Report: GlobeWork: Managing in the New "Wired" World. Praxis R&C, 1997.
"Global Collaboration: A Proposed Framework for Forging Cooperative Relationships." The Organizational Dimensions of Global Change. Academy of Management, 1995.

Memberships

Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Singapore
TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs

Board Memberships:

Social Capital Institute
SP Jain Academic Board
iCube Consortium
Center of Excellence for Happiness
Albatross Foundation
Create2Donate

Media Appearances & Coverage

Speaker at international platforms such as CNBC, Bloomberg, TEDx, YPO/WPO, Channel News Asia, MIT Technology Review, INK, TiE, corporate events and conferences. Topics include lateral-innovation research (Fusion), design thinking, disruption, eBusiness, globalisation and more.
https://www.drcjmeadows.com/speaker

Conferences & Workshops

Creative Leadership (corporate workshops)
Disruption & Types of Innovation (corporate workshops)
THINK+ AI & HI (corporate workshops)

Awards & Recognition

50 Fabulous EduTech Leaders (2019)
By World Education Congress
Recognised as a leader doing extraordinary work to develop people in this age of disruption in work and learning.
Top 10 Women in IT, Asia (2019)
By Bonhill Group, LLP
Named as one of Asia's Top 10 Women in IT by Bonhill Group, LLP, a leading media company serving the international Technology, Financial Services and Diversity business communities.

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