Clinical Associate Professor of Management Education
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ph.D., University Of Wisconsin, 1985
qumuse@aol.com
Bio
Jeff DeGraff teaches MBA and Executive Education courses on managing creativity, innovation and change. Jeff is also a core faculty member in the University of Michigan Center for Leadership, Change and Innovation. Jeff's research and writing focuses on change and innovation strategy, organizational competencies and innovation practices, and creativity methods. He has worked extensively with dozens of the world’s most prominent companies to help them establish sustainable innovation competencies, communities, and networks: GE, Toyota, Apple, Coca-Cola, and Johnson and Johnson. He has worked all over the world, with significant experience in Europe and Asia, and in most industry and market segments. DeGraff has developed a broad array of innovation methodologies (e.g., Jumpstart, portfolio management and resource allocation, organizational development processes, etc.) that are widely used. Visit www.competingvalues.com to learn more about Jeff’s work. He is the co-author of the books Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen, Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine and Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations.
POS Related Interests
The development of positive culture in organizational federations: Open source, pervasive networks and post-capitalist models of innovation
The effect of accelerating the innovation failure cycle on organizational learning and its ability to sustain resilient innovation capabilities
Channeling the transformative power of small, highly practiced teams into organizational momentum and enrollment emerging innovation friendly practices.
Innovatrium: Integrating POS into Innovation Incubation
The Innovatrium Institute for Innovation is a unique community comprised of business and organization leaders, top university professors, and students who are dedicated to the study and development of new innovation practices and practitioners. Innovatrium was established to cross traditional boundaries so that innovation thought leaders and practitioners could collaborate on key projects. Innovatrium serves both the business and higher education communities, as well as diverse departments, such as finance and organizational development, and regions, such as the US and China. Innovatrium is dedicated to the search and reapplication of best practices across an open network, the creation of better and new innovation practices, and the development of a new generation of innovation practitioners through practicum opportunities for students and faculty researchers.
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