Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences
Director, IIK - Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management
Biography
Ivanka Visnjic is Associate Professor of Innovation at ESADE Business School, where
she alsoacts as Director of the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management.Ivanka
worked at consulting firm McKinsey & Co, completed her PhD at KatholiekeUniversiteit
Leuven in Belgium, held visiting posts at University of Cambridge, University ofCalifornia,
Berkley and London Business School. She also helped set up business-ledpartnership,
Cambridge Service Alliance, at University of Cambridge.Her research, teaching and
advisory activities focus on discontinuous technological shiftsand disruptive and
radical innovation in products, services and business models. Inparticular, she studies
how established companies deal with uncertainty in theirenvironment by developing
and bringing to market novel technologies, shifting fromproduct to service business
models and delivering customer solutions and outcomes.Her research has been published
in well-established academic journals, such as CaliforniaManagement Review, Journal
of Operations Management, Journal of Product InnovationManagement. Ivanka has received
a number of awards and grants for her research,including Poets & Quants' 40 under
40 Professors in 2020, Journal of OperationsManagement Ambassador Award in 2018, IBM
Faculty Award in 2012.She led joint research projects, gave keynote speeches, hosted
workshops and workedclosely with C-suite and senior management teams of several global
companies, such asAtlas Copco, BAE Systems, Caterpillar, Enel, FC Barcelona, IBM,
Novozymes, Pearson, Rocheand Telefonica.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2604
Fax: +34 932 048 105