Anan Sheth

• Ph.D. Civil Engineering (2021) – Purdue University
• MS Civil Engineering (2016) – Purdue University
• BE Civil Engineering (2012) – Manipal Institute of Technology

Assistant Professor on the tenure track

• OCOB at Cal Poly SLO (2024-present)

 

Post-doctoral research fellow

• Stevens School of Business – Stevens Institute of Technology (2021 – 2023)

 

Partner

• V-create Architects & AAA+ Turnkey Project Developers – Surat, India (2011 – 2014)

Current research projects:

• https://www.anansheth.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheth7

 

Peer-reviewed journal publications:

1. Koen, P., & Sheth, A., DiPaola, M., and Hill, L. a., (2024). Scaling Transformational Innovations: Lessons for the C-Suite. Harvard Business Review. 102 (6 | Nov-Dec).

The article presents a playbook for the C-Suite for scaling up transformational innovations by implementing tactics necessary to implement ambidexterity.

2. Sheth, A., & Sinfield, J. v. (2024). Advancing the Complex Adaptive Systems approach to Enterprise Risk Management with Quantified Risk Networks (QRNs). Nature Scientific Reports 14, 22312.

The paper advances the complex adaptive system (CAS) perspective of enterprise risk management (ERM) finding that enterprise risk networks have a small-world structure, which helps quantify the uncertainty of the impact of unexpected events on an enterprise. It provides a method for firms to enhance their risk monitoring and better contextualize identified risks across organizational silos.

3. Sheth, A., & Sinfield, J. v. (2023). Risk Intelligence and the Resilient Company. MIT Sloan Management Review 64(4).

The article describes a process to build risk and opportunity intelligence for resilience across a wide range of changing business contexts faced by complex enterprises.

4. Morkan, B., Bertels, H.m., Sheth, A., & Holahan, P.j. (2023). Building Megaproject Resilience with Stakeholders: The Roles of Citizenship Behavior and Critical Transition Mechanisms. International Journal of Project Management: Special Issue on Resilience in Project Studies.

This is a case study introducing a theoretical model for critical transition mechanisms of scaling project-level resilience from individual-level stakeholder behavior.

5. Sheth, A., & Sinfield, J. v. (2022). An analytical framework to compare innovation strategies and identify simple rules. Technovation.

The article introduces a framework to compare innovation strategies on a common basis and identifies simple rules to implement archetypal innovation forms.

6. Sheth, A., & Kusiak, A. (2022). Resiliency of Smart Manufacturing Enterprises via Information Integration. Journal of Industrial Information Integration.

The paper is a systematic literature review of risk and resilience in manufacturing and introduces a framework for resilience based on complex adaptive systems theory.

7. Sheth, A., & Sinfield, J. v. (2021). Systematic problem-specification in innovation science using language. International Journal of Innovation Science.

The article leverages the structure in natural language and develops a framework and an AI tool for the ideation phase in innovation management.

8. Sinfield, J. v., Sheth, A., & Kotian, R. r. (2020). Framing the Intractable – Comprehensive Success Factor Analysis for Grand Challenges. Sustainable Futures.

The article develops an improved method for the problem-framing process for wicked problems based on holism and knowledge graphs from search engine data.