Terri Griffith, Ph.D., holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. She has also been an ISSIP Ambassador and a contributing member since the organization’s inception. Terri spent two decades in Silicon Valley and in 2012 was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri helps people and organizations accelerate performance and prepare for the future of work. Through her speaking, writing, teaching, and research, she brings evidence-based leadership and innovation to organizations spanning high tech, education, and global agribusiness. She inspires and coaches groups on how to negotiate change and uniquely mix existing and new capabilities. Her most recent work takes on a “bottom-up” approach to automation, including artificial intelligence.
Her award-winning book, The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive, offers clear examples and frameworks for succeeding now and in the future — not just leadership, not just technology, but a powerful combination that leverages all your resources. For over 25 years she has offered programs and projects for companies and associations including Oracle, IBM, Cisco, ESADE, Sonera, SIM APC, and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. She serves on the advisory boards of GeoPogo, and Intelenz.
Through her blog, Technology and Organizations, and freelance work (Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review Blog, Women 2.0, MIT’s Sloan Management Review), Terri follows organizational trends and the leaders who bring them to life. Her academic work is published in top journals such as: Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE – Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Academy of Management Review. Some of this research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Terri has served as senior editor for Organization Science and associate editor for MIS Quarterly. She is currently an editorial review board member for Organization Science and associate editor of Group Decision and Negotiation. Her undergraduate degree is from UC Berkeley; her MS and PhD are from Carnegie Mellon. Her full CV is available here.
Position Statement
The nomination to serve as ISSIP’s Vice President is a great honor. I look forward to continuing our focus on collaboration and innovation across industries and academic fields. I have gained from our sessions the Hawai’i International Conference on Systems Science, presentations to the Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO, and numerous workshops with our membership. I am excited by the value we create through industry/academic collaborations to develop, implement, and evaluate service innovations.
I see additional value in expanding our role across industry, academia, and governmental and non-governmental organizations as we support students, professionals, and organizations in their various futures of work. We are uniquely placed given the diversity and expertise of ISSIP’s membership to help people develop the tools and mindsets for success. My research suggests that ours is a relatively rare perspective in that we consider innovation across talent, technology, and technique, rather than privileging any one of those dimensions. ISSIP can increase its service to the membership and world as we build knowledge and professional development activities at scale. We are well down this path, and it is my privilege to participate.