JAMSHID GHARAJEDAGHI

Mr. Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Managing Partner of INTERACT, has more than thirty-five years of experience with the development & practice of systems methodology in designing business architecture, learning and control systems. His work has taken him into corporations and government agencies around the world for both private and public concerns. Mr. Gharajedaghi was formerly the Director of The Busch Center, the research arm of the Social Systems Sciences Department, and Adjunct Professor of Systems Sciences at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1979-1986). He began his career with IBM's World Trade Corporation where he served as a Senior Systems Engineer (1963-1969). He left IBM to become CEO of the Industrial Management Institute (1969-1979). He has held teaching positions at: Villanova University School of Business (2000- present); The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1979 - 1986); IBM Education Centers (1965 - 1969); and University of California, Berkeley (1961 - 1963). Mr. Gharajedaghi received his engineering degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1963) and completed more than 1,500 hours of professional training in systems engineering at the IBM Education Centers in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. From this early training in information systems, his interests led him to operations research, behavioral sciences, and finally, for the last 35 years to the development of design thinking as the third generation of systems thinking. Mr. Gharajedaghi has written several books, including Systems Thinking, Managing Chaos & Complexity, A Platform for Designing Business Architecture, Prologue to National Development Planning, Towards a Systems Theory of Organization, and A Guide to Controlling Your Corporation's Future. He is the author of numerous published articles in various international scientific and management journals.