Innovation through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions

About CJ Meadows

Dr. CJ Meadows is the Director of i2e The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at SP Jain School of Global Management. She designed and launched new innovation programs (Design Thinking Disruptive Innovation with Harvard Business Online and startup360 with IBM Garage) and has certified hundreds of executives and MBAs in IDEOs design-thinking methodology. She initiated new consulting and education relationships with top-tier clients (e.g. World Bank Cisco MSD (Merck) Novartis ADP etc.) as well as collaborations with indubators industry leaders mentors and more. Her research and coaching focus on Leadership & Creativity and she runs an advanced-technologies Think Tank & Tinker Lab (2050ed.tech) envisioning the future of education and applying AI biometrics and other advanced technologies to human L&D. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School USA and was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Dr. Meadows has over 20 years experience in Asia Europe and North America providing strategy & business-development consulting to major corporations and new ventures alike as well as executive education programmes individually and in conjunction with top business schools. When businesses were just starting to go online CJ co-founded an Innovation Lab in Singapore within a premier eBusiness consulting firm that built ground-breaking eBusiness for clients such as Chase Morgan Stanley AT&T J&J Boots & Marubeni. Her lab collaborated with the firm's labs in San Francisco New York and London as a place where clients could go to use a well-researched and well-honed innovation methodology to tackle key business issues. She led projects worked with client executives to define their key business issues and envision the future and fostered new client relationships with government and financial services organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank DBS Societe Generale MetLife Dun & Bradstreet Dao Heng GIC Singapore Prime Ministers Office Singapore Tourism Board Ministry of Manpower Attorney Generals Chambers and Singapore Law Academy. Earlier as a member of Accenture's Strategy Group (financial services) -- then the largest strategy consulting group in the world -- CJ structured & led projects developed & managed client relationships and served as an expert resource to envision industry futures and clients positioning; define core competence & competitive advantage; define value creation business models partnerships & implementation approach; and more. She was a member years earlier of Accenture's Information Technology practice building finance & accounting systems for the US Government. As an entrepreneur she co-founded a variety of corporations partnerships etc. in several industries on three continents. At her own consultancy she brought new research to business problems serving clients such as Singapore Technologies Ernst & Young (EY) Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and the United Nations (UNIDO). In the social enterprise space she remains the Chairman & Co-Founder of The Tiger Center (TTC) a ground-breaking social enterprise in central India. TTC whitepapers on the use of natural assets for economic development have been discussed in the Parliament of India and the firm has impacted public policy. Dr. Meadows has taught at Harvard University INSEAD Asian Institute of Management National University of Singapore and for MNCs both privately and in conjunction with Singapore Management University. Her latest research & new multimedia books focus on high-value lateral innovation with a new model process and insights for innovation leaders and individuals as well as implications for teams and organizations. For more information see drcjmeadows.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcjmeadows/.