Anan Sheth
Department: Civil Engineering
Title: PhD Candidate
Research description:
Developing Pathways to Enterprise Resilience
Research highlights:
- Work with industry partners on achieving upstream innovation
- Work on innovation motifs and simple rules for strategy from patterns in successful innovations
- Developing a toolkit for Systematic Innovation and Innovation Science
- Developing CSFA toolkit for application in grand challenges
- Work with INDOT on culvert technologies
- Simulating evolutionary psychology perspective on emergent leadership
- Use of nature-inspired agent-based simulation towards corporate self-organization
Keywords:
Enterprise resilience, Innovation Science, Purpose-Contexts, Enabling Innovation application, Innovation motifs
Publications:
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Peer-reviewed publications in print or in review
- Simple rules for innovation strategy – Technovation - (in review)
- Framing the intractable- Comprehensive Success Factor Analysis – Sustainable Futures – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2020.100037
- Systematic problem-specification in innovation science using language – Intl. J of Innovation Science – https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIS-03-2020-0019
- A simple framework to organize enterprise risks - Journal of Risk Research -- (In review)
- Pathways to organizational resilience – Sloan Management Review – (in review)
- A study of collective leadership in top management teams – The Leadership Quarterly (in review)
- Simulating Self-Organization during Strategic Change: Implications for Organizational Design – ACM SIGCHI Collective Intelligence 2019
- Synthesis Study: Overview of Readily Available Culvert Inspection Technologies – Joint Transportation Research Program - INDOT Purdue University
Biography
Anan is a doctoral candidate at The Innovation Science Laboratory - Purdue University. His research focus is on the exploration of the tension between corporate risk and growth. Anan’s research and publications include the area of Innovation Science- an emerging field pursued at a handful of labs at top tier institutions globally; and the development of computing systems to comprehensively frame complex socio-technical challenges such as bringing fresh water to a village in the Dominican Republic using Natural Language Processing.
Anan has a deep interest in AI-Healthcare Venture Capital and has led a team to evaluate an early-stage diagnostics startup focused on pancreatic cancer on behalf of Purdue Ventures and The Purdue Foundry Investment Board. Anan has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Indiana University Health systems on a project focused on primary care. Anan has experience working in an entrepreneurial setting having had project management experience working at a design-build startup in India.