Current positions
Biography
Publications

Current positions:

• Full Professor of Management of Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches at the School of Management, at the School of Design, and in the Doctoral Program in Management. 
• Founder and Chairman of PROject Science, consulting institute for strategic innovation of businesses, organizations and products.
• Expert in Innovation and R&D for Keystone Strategy, consulting firm founded by Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School.
• Director of MaDe In Lab, the laboratory for advanced education on Management of Design and Innovation of MIP-Politecnico di Milano.
• Member of the Board of the EIASM, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, in Brussels.
• Scientific Co-Director of the Master Degree in Strategic Design of Politecnico di Milano.
• Visiting Professor of Design Management at the Copenhagen Business School.
• Adjunct Professor of Design Innovation Management at the University of Vaasa, Finlandia.
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Design Management Institute, Boston.
• Member of the Board of Advisors of www.Innocrowding.com, marketplace for innovation and trend analysis.
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the CIPU – Danish Center for Innovation and Product Development.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
• Associate Editor for the European Management Review.
• Member of the Board of the EIASM International Product Development Management Conference. [top]

Biography

• Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School in 2007-2008.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the EIASM (the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) from 2004 to 2007.
• Founder and first director of the Alta Scuola Politecnica, the School for talents of Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino, from 2004 to 2007.
• Chairman of the scientific committee of the agency for evaluation of institutes for research and technology transfer (Questio) of Regione Lombardia.
• Founder and first director of the School of Doctoral Programs of Politecnico di Milano (with more than 800 PhD students) from 2000 to 2004.
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School in 1997-1998.
• Associate professor (1998-2000), Assistant Professor (1995-1998) and research assistant (1991-1995) at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.
• Graduated summa cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1989.
• Born in Milan, 19 May 1964.

Roberto Verganti has been featured on:
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
Business Week
Harvard Business Review
San Francisco Review of Books
www.Core77.com
Corriere della Sera
Il Sole 24 Ore
La Repubblica
Il Giornale

Awards
“Compasso d’Oro” 2001 (the most prestigious design award in Italy) to the research project Sistema Design Italia, in which he participated to the Scientific Organizing Committee;
Best Paper award at the EIASM International Product Development Management Conferences in 2002, 2003 and 2004
Best paper award at the EurOMA (European Operations Management Association) Conference in 2000

He has been a keynote speaker in several events, such as the World Business Forum or The Economist Big Rethink, and scientific conferences, including the International Product Development Management Conference and the European Academy of Management. [top]

Publications
Roberto Verganti has issued more than 150 publications on management of innovation including more than 50 articles on scientific journals such as the Harvard Business Review, Management Science, the Journal of Product Innovation Management and 14 books. We provide below a selection.

Forthcoming publications

• Dell’Era, C., and Verganti R., “Collaborative Strategies in Design-Intensive Industries: Knowledge Diversity and Innovation”, Long Range Planning
• Tommaso Buganza, Martin Gerst, Roberto Verganti, “Adoption of NPD Flexibility Practices in New Technology-Based Firms”, European Journal of Innovation Management
• Dell’Era, C., and Verganti R “Diffusion of product signs in industrial networks: the advantage of the trend setter”, European Journal of Innovation Management
• Dell’Era, C., Marchesi, A., and Verganti R “Mastering technologies in design-driven innovations: how two Italian furniture companies make design a central part of their innovation process”, Research Technology Management
• Alessandro Sala, Paolo Landoni, Roberto Verganti, “R&D network: an evaluation framework”, International Journal of Technology Management
• Tommaso Buganza and Roberto Verganti, “Open innovation processes for inbound knowledge: Collaboration with Universities in four leading firms”, European Journal of Innovation Management

If you wish to have more information on forthcoming publications or on articles under development, please do not hesitate to contact us at roberto.verganti@polimi.it

Selected Artlcles on Scientific Journals

• Claudio Dell’Era and Roberto Verganti, “The impact of international designers on firm innovation capability and consumer interest”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol.29, issue 9, 870-893, 2009.
• Tommaso Buganza, Claudio Dell’Era, and Roberto Verganti, “Exploring the Relationships between Product Development and Environmental Turbulence: The Case of Mobile TLC Services”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26, 308-321, 2009.
• Claudio Dell’Era and Roberto Verganti, “Design Driven Laboratories: Organization and Strategy of Laboratories Specialized in the Development of Radical Design Driven Innovations”, R&D Management, vol. 39, n.1, pp.1-20, 2009
• Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti, “Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You?”, Harvard Business Review, Volume 86, Number 12, 78-86, December 2008.
• Mario Salerno, Paolo Landoni, and Roberto Verganti, “Designing Foresight Studies for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NST) future developments”, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol 75, issue 8, October 2008, 1202-1223.
• Roberto Verganti, “Design, Meanings, and Radical Innovation: a meta-model and a research agenda”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 25, 436-456, 2008.
• Claudio Dell’Era and Roberto Verganti, “Strategies of innovation and imitation of product languages”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 24, 580-599, 2007.
• Roberto Verganti, “Innovating Through Design”, Harvard Business Review, Volume 84, Number 12, 114-122, December, 2006.
• T. Buganza, R. Verganti, “Life-Cycle Flexibility: How to measure and improve the innovative capability in turbulent environments”, Journal of Product Innovation Management. 23, 393-407, 2006.
• R. Verganti, T. Buganza, “Design Inertia: Designing for life-cycle flexibility in Internet-based services” Journal of Product Innovation Management. Vol 22, No. 3, May 2005, 223-237.
• R. Verganti, “Design as brokering of languages. The role of designers in the innovation strategy of Italian firms”, Design Management Journal, Vol. 14, N. 3, pp. 34-42, Summer 2003.
• A. MacCormack, and R. Verganti, “Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 20, No. 3, May 2003, 217-232.
• G. Spina, R. Verganti, G. Zotteri, “Factors influencing co-design adoption: drivers and internal consistency”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 22, N. 12, 1354-1366, 2002.
• G. Spina, R. Verganti, G. Zotteri, “A model of codesign relationships: definitions and contingencies”, International Journal of Technology Management, vol. 23, n. 4, 304-321, 2002.
• A. MacCormack, R. Verganti, and M. Iansiti, “Developing Products on “Internet Time”: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process”, Management Science, Vol.47, No.1, January 2001, pp. 133-150.
• R. Verganti, “Planned Flexibility: Linking Anticipation and Reaction in Product Development Projects”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 16, No. 4, 363-376, 1999.
• R. Verganti, “Leveraging on Systemic Learning to Manage the Early Phases of Product Innovation Projects”, R&D Management, vol. 27, N. 4, October, 377-392, 1997.
• E. Bartezzaghi, M. Corso, and R. Verganti, “Continuous Improvement and Inter-Project Learning in New Product Development”, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1997, 116-138.
• A. De Maio, R. Verganti and M. Corso, “A Multi-Project Management Framework for New Product Development”, European Journal of Operational Research, 78, 1994, pp. 178-191.
• E. Bartezzaghi, G. Spina and R. Verganti, “Lead-Time Models of Business Processes”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 14, n. 5, 1994, pp. 5-20.

Selected Books

• Roberto Verganti, Design Driven Innovation – Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2009
• J. Utterback, B.A. Vedin, E. Alvarez, S. Ekman, S. Sanderson, B. Tether, R. Verganti, Design-Inspired Innovation, World Scientific, New York, NJ, 2006.
• F. Jegou, R. Verganti, A. Marchesi, G. Simonelli, C. Dell’Era, Design Driven Toolbox – A Handbook to support companies in Radical Product Innovation, EVAN European Value Network, 2006.
• R. Verganti, M. Calderini, P. Garrone, S. Palmieri, L’impresa dell’innovazione. La gestione strategica della tecnologia nelle PMI. IlSole24Ore, Milano , 2004.
• E. Bartezzaghi, G. Spina e R. Verganti, Organizzare le PMI per la crescita. Come sviluppare i più avanzati modelli organizzativi: gestione per processi, lavoro per progetti, sviluppo delle competenze, IlSole24Ore, Milano, 1999.
• A. De Maio, A. Bellucci, M. Corso e R. Verganti, Gestire l’innovazione e innovare la gestione, ETAS, Milano, Seconda edizione 2000. [top]