Scott is the President of Innosight and has worked with Fortune 500 and start-up companies in industries such as media (print and broadcast), consumer products, investment banking, transportation and logistics, health care, medical devices, software, petrochemicals and communications equipment.
He recently spearheaded a year-long project to help the newspaper industry grapple with industry transformation (Newspaper Next) and previously led a multi-month project to help the government of Singapore understand how to create an environment that fosters entrepreneurialism and innovation. He is a featured speaker on topics of growth and innovation.
Scott is the co-author (with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen) of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change and is the lead author of a forthcoming book describing how to build new growth businesses (to be published in 2008). He has written articles in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management and PressTime and serves as the editor of Strategy & Innovation a bimonthly newsletter published by Innosight and Clayton Christensen.
Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a Senior Researcher with Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation. Previously, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., a Strategic Planner for Aspen Technology and a Product Manager for WorldSpace Corporation. While at McKinsey, he co-authored a publicly released report on the United Kingdom's economic prospects.
Scott received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change