Tony O'Driscoll Ed.D. is a Professor of the Practice at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His current research focuses on how emerging technologies such as virtual worlds can rapidly disrupt existing industry structure and business models. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Information Sciences Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He has also written for respected professional journals such as Harvard Business Review, Strategy and Business, Supply Chain Management Review and Chief Learning Officer Magazine. During his 18-year industry career,
Tony held several leadership positions with IBM and Nortel Networks in the areas of Strategic Business Planning, New Product and Service Development, Services Science Research and Human Capital Management. Tony was a founding member of IBM Global Service’s Strategy and Change consulting practice. In that role, he consulted with business leaders around the world on how to best leverage technology to create sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly global, networked and knowledge-enabled economy.
Tony's forthcoming book, "Learning in 3D: How the Immersive Internet Brings a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration,'" written with Dr. Karl Kapp, provides an in-depth analysis of how virtual world technologies will bring significant change to the learning profession and the enterprises that they serve.