Verganti, Roberto

Current position in Politecnico di Milano School of Management

Full Professor
Core Faculty

Educational background

MSc Course(s): Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1989
Phd

Academic and research areas

MSc Course(s): Management Of Innovation And Project Management
MIP Academic area: Innovation, Design & Project Management (IDPM)
Research area: Management

Other information

Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2007-2008; Member of the Board of the EIASM International Product Development Management Conference; Member of the Scientific Committee of the EIASM (the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) from 2004 to 2007; Visiting Professor of Design Management at Copenhagen Business School; Adjunct Professor of Design Innovation Management at University of Vaasa.; Member of the Advisory Council of Design Management Institute, Boston; Member of the Board of Advisors of www.Innocrowding.com, marketplace for innovation and trend analysis; Expert in Innovation and R&D for Keystone Strategy, consulting firm founded by Marco Iansiti of Harvard Business School; Member of the International Advisory Board of the CIPU – Danish Centre for Innovation and Product Development; Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management; Associate Editor for the European Management Review.

Publications

2005 BUGANZA T., VERGANTI R., "Design Inertia: Designing for life-cycle flexibility in Internet-based services", Journal of Product Innovation Management, Pagg. 223-237, Vol. 22, N° 3. CANIATO F., RONCHI S., VERGANTI R., kalchschmidt m., zotteri g., "Clustering customers to forecast demand", Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Production Planning & Control, Pagg. 32-43, Vol. 16, N° 1.
2006 VERGANTI R., alvarez e., ekman s., sanderson s., tether b., utterback j., vedin b.a., "Design-Inspired Innovation", World Scientific, Singapore, Pagg. 1-258. BUGANZA T., VERGANTI R., "Life-Cycle Flexibility: How to measure and improve the innovative capability in turbulent environments", Blackwell Publishers, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Pagg. 393-407, N° 23. LANDONI P., VERGANTI R., "Fostering Knowledge and Technology Transfer through evaluation systems at a regional level", Interscience Publishers, International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, Pagg. 31-48, Vol. 5, N° 4. VERGANTI R., "Innovating Through Design", Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Harvard Business Review, Pagg. 114-122, Vol. 84, N° 12. VERGANTI R., kalchschmidt m., zotteri g., "Forecasting demand from heterogeneous customers", International Journal of Operations and Production Management., Pagg. 619-638, Vol. 26, N° 6.
2007 LANDONI P., ROVEDA C., VERGANTI R., vecchiato r., "Gli strumenti di Strategic Intelligence a supporto delle politiche per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione", Guerini e Associati, Milano, Pagg. 1-150. DELL'ERA C., VERGANTI R., "Strategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages", Blackwell Publishers, JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Pagg. 580-599, Vol. 24. LANDONI P., ROVEDA C., VERGANTI R., vecchiato r., ""A new methdology for regional Foresight"", Inderscience, Geneve, International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Pagg. 218-234, Vol. 3, N° 2. BUGANZA T., LANDONI P., VERGANTI R., "Le relazioni tra imprese e università nel paradigma dell’open innovation, 2007", Milano, Impresa & Stato, Pagg. 9-16, N° 78.
2008 SALERNO M.; LANDONI P.; VERGANTI R., 'Designing foresight studies for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NST) future developments', TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, Pagg. 1202-1223, Vol. 75. C. Dell’Era, A. Marchesi, R. Verganti, F. Zurlo, 'Language Mining: Analysis of the innovation of dominant product languages in design-intensive industries', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Pagg. 25-50, Vol. 11. C. Dell'Era; A. Marchesi; R. Verganti, 'Linguistic network configurations: management of innovation of dominant product languages in design-intensive industries', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Pagg. 1-19, Vol. 12. PISANO G. P; R. VERGANTI, 'Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You? The new leaders in innovation will be those who figure out the best way to leverage a network of outsiders', HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW,Harvard Business Review Boston USA, Pagg. 78-86, Vol. 86. R. VERGANTI, 'Design, Meanings, and Radical Innovation: a meta-model and a research agenda', THE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT,Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford UK, Pagg. 436-456, Vol. 25.
2009 R. Verganti, 'Design-Driven Innovation – Cambiare le regole della competizione innovando radicalmente il significato dei prodotti e dei servizi', ETAS Milano, Pagg. 1 -282. R. VERGANTI, 'Design-Driven Innovation – Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean', HARVARD BUSINESS PRESS BOSTON , 272. T. Buganza, C. Dell'Era, R. Verganti, 'Exploring the Relationships between Product Development and Environmental Turbulence: The Case of Mobile TLC Services', THE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Pagg. 308-321, Vol. 26. C. Dell'Era, R. Verganti, 'The impact of international designers on firm innovation capability and consumer interest', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, Pagg. 870-893, Vol. 29. DELL'ERA C; R. VERGANTI, 'Design Driven Laboratories: Organization and Strategy of Laboratories Specialized in the Development of Radical Design Driven Innovations', R & D MANAGEMENT, Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford UK, Pagg. 1-20, Vol. 39.