John Sviokla

John Julius Sviokla is an author and a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he serves as the US Advisory Innovation Leader. He is a member of PwC's Advisory Leadership Group and Global Thought Leadership Council and leads The Exchange, a think tank for clients and business leaders. Previously, he was Vice Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. ^{[1] [2]}

Education

Sviokla earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and obtained his master's degree and Doctorate degree from Harvard Business School . He served on the Harvard Business School faculty from 1986 to 1998. ^[3]

Career

Sviokla has created some of the first thought leadership pieces including, Managing in the Marketspace , ^{[4] [5]} (1994) and Exploiting the Virtual Value Chain . ^[6] He is also a contributor to Oxford Economics study on Digital Megatrends 2015. ^[7]

Publications

• Sviokla, John J. and Bothun, Deborah: You're a Media company. Now What? Four strategies that work in this dynamic new world, Strategy + Business, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, June 2016
• Sviokla, John J. and Cohen, Mitch: The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value, Portfolio, December 2014.
• Sviokla, John J.: The Courage To Change Before You have To, Strategy + Business, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, June 2016
• Sviokla, John J. Stop Driving Away your Producers: Many companies undervalue their highest-potential talent: the leaders who create new businesses, September 29, 2015 by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen

• Sviokla, John J. and Cohen, Mitch: The Two Types of High-Potential Talent, July 2015
• Sviokla, John J. and Cohen, Mitch: What Self-Made Billionaires Do Best: They don’t just generate results. They produce breakthroughs, December 2014
• Sviokla, John J. How Old Industries Become Young Again: Five indicators reveal when your sector is about to be transformed by dematurity July 2014

• Sviokla, John J., Hiddin, Gezius J, Williams, Jeffrey R.: The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall Not Be First, The Wall Street Journal, January 2010. www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704007804574574211232106776
• Sviokla, John J. and Rayport, Jeffrey F.: Managing in the Marketspace, Harvard Business Review, November/December 1994.
• Sviokla, John J. and Rayport, Jeffrey F." Exploiting the Virtual Value Chain, Harvard Business Review, November/December 1995.
• Sviokla, John J (Author, Editor) and Shapiro Benson P. (Author): Seeking Customers, Harvard Business Review Press, April 1, 1993)
• Sviokla, John J (Author) and Shapiro Benson P. (Editor): Keeping Customers, Harvard Business Review Press, April 1, 1993)
• Sviokla, John J Planpower, XCON, and MUDMAN: An in-depth analysis of three commercial expert systems in use, (Working paper), Harvard Business School, 1989

References

1. "Matthew Lieberman".
2. "Dr. John Sviokla". UAFRS: Uniform Adjusted Financial Reporting Standards. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
3. [PWC, ibid]
4. [PWC, ibid]
5. Rayport, Jeffrey F.; Sviokla, John (November 1994). "Managing in the Marketspace". Harvard Business Review.
6. (1995) both published in Harvard Business Review. Dr. Sviokla is a frequent speaker on topics of innovation, growth, and emerging customer behavior
7. "Oxford Economics study on Digital Megatrends - Google Search".

External links

• http://www.pwc.com/us/en/contacts/j/john-sviokla.html
• http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000342653
• Buscell, Prucia: Disruption, 'Dematurity' and Cooperative Commercialization, August 2014, http://www.plexusinstitute.org/blogpost/656763/194781/Disruption--Dematurity-and-Cooperative-Commercialization
• Interview with John Sviokla: Trillions Spent in Advertising & Marketing: Most of It Utterly Inefficient, https://www.wordnik.com/words/Sviokla