Evidence, strategy and innovation

How do managers collect and use evidence when they make decisions? When does cognitive reflection improve accuracy? How do simple rules guide strategy, and how should small and medium-sized enterprises manage innovation?

These questions run through a programme of work with Christian Criado-Perez, Catherine Collins, George Shinkle and colleagues, including an ARC Linkage project, “Innovation in Australian mid-market firms: The critical role of leader cognition” (2014–2017), with industry partners GE Capital and Pitcher Partners. Managerial reports from the project were published with Pitcher Partners in 2017 and 2018. I also lead UNSW’s innovation and entrepreneurship research group, which runs an annual conference and research meetings through the year.