Dr. John Pourdehnad
Dr. John Pourdehnad is Affiliated Faculty,
Organizational Dynamics at University of
Pennsylvania, USA. He is also Associate
Director, Ackoff Collaboratory for Advancement
of Systems Approaches, and Adjunct Professor,
Systems Engineering, in the School of
Engineering and Applied Science, University of
Pennsylvania, USA.
Dr. Pourdehnad is engaged in the field of
organizational management, using systems
thinking as a world view and communicating its
implications for management. As a
scholar-practitioner he has been involved with
numerous projects helping management teams with
the resolution of complex problems. He has
taught at the undergraduate and graduate level,
worked as an educator/consultant with for-profit
and not-for-profit organizations and government
agencies, and has also been a co-principal
investigator in a number of research programs.
His primary areas of interest include
implications of systems thinking in complex
problem formulation (including complex project
management) and systems redesign. He is a member
of the Editorial Board of the journal, Systems
Research and Behavioral Science; a member of the
Academy of Management ; and an honorary member
of the Society for Organizational Excellent in
Bulgaria. His applied scholarship also includes
knowledge development in the creation of new
products and services, and the development of
socio-technical systems for learning and
knowledge-to-wisdom management in complex
adaptive systems. He has also been integrating a
series of thematic concepts such as idealized
design, business model design, open innovation
and Enterprise 2.0 into an integrated workable
whole.
Dr. Pourdehnad received his PhD in Systems
Sciences from the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania .
He is a leader in
design thinking, is a Fellow of the Da Vinci Institute for
Technology and Management in Rivonia Gauteng,
South Africa, and in February, 2008 he was
awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to visit the New
Bulgarian University in Sophia, Bulgaria to help
create the "Design Institute" for the practice
of design thinking using trans-disciplinary
teams to cope with complex and intractable
problems. In Bulgaria and globally, he has
presented lectures, mostly on systems thinking,
in various educational, corporate and government
institutions.
Dr. Pourdehand is an expert in the application
of Interactive Planning and has been directly
involved in Interactive Planning projects for
the following organizations:
Anheauser-Busch Companies, Chrysler
Corporation, Dupont, Eastman, Kodak,
Imperial Oil Limited (Canada), Martin
Marietta, Super Fresh Food Markets, World
Wide technology, Briggs and Stratton
Corporation, General Motors Corporation,
Analog Devices, Inc., Aetna Insurance
Company, Ford Motor Company, Northern
Telecom, University of Pennsylvania (School
of Veterinary Medicine), University of
Pennsylvania (Dental School), Compania
Antarctica Paulista (Brazil), The White
House (Communications Agency and the
Military Office), Mount Carmel Health,
Marriott Corporation, Hoechst-Roussel
Pharmaceuticals Inc., Registry Magic,
PanCanadian Petroleum Company (EnCana),
Canadian Pacific Leadership Institute,
Express Scripts, North Coast Energy, Inc.,
Johns Hopkins University Health Systems,
McKesson Health Corporation, University of
Pennsylvania (UCKIZ Economic Development
Planning), IDS Scheer (North America), The
Philadelphia Singers, Shell Canada Limited,
Scotford Refinery, Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Altech (UEC Multi media manufacture and
service provision of satellite and
terrestrial digital set-top decoders) South
Africa, South African Bureau of Standards (SABS),
Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia),
International House Philadelphia, Foreign
Policy Research Institute, University of
Pennsylvania (Neurosciences), Accenture US.
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