2007-05-16

John Sviokla, Vice Chairman
Diamond Consulting

Dr. John J. Sviokla is vice chairman of Diamond Consulting International, leads the firm's Digital Strategy practice and is an expert in business strategy for the digital age. He combines the understanding of technology, economics, finance and organization necessary to successfully unleash the power and wealth of the new economy.

Prior to joining Diamond Consulting, Dr. Sviokla researched and taught at the Harvard Business School for 12 years. In this capacity, he authored more than 100 articles, case videos and tele-seminars and edited numerous books. His seminal articles in the Harvard Business Review, “Managing in the MarketSpace” and “Exploiting the Virtual Value Chain” (both co-authored with Jeffrey Rayport) were among the first harbingers of the e-commerce wave to come. 

For more than a decade, Dr. Sviokla has been an advisor to senior executives and business owners in Global 1000 companies and startups, helping them create superior value and change the rules of the game for wealth creation. He currently serves on the board of directors of Diamond Consulting.  Dr. Sviokla is a frequent speaker at business and academic conferences on technology and business and is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce, an associate editor of Organization Science and a member of the National Academy of Management and the Institute for Management Science.

Dr. Sviokla is a former associate professor and Baxter Fellow in information technology at the Harvard Business School. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College and his master and doctor of business administration degrees from Harvard University with a major in management information systems.