Siobhán O'Mahony Fellow

Siobhán O'Mahony is a Fellow with Cutter's Agile Project Management and Business Technology Trends & Impacts practices and is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. Her research examines the social, technical, and legal factors that influence cumulative innovation. She has studied how online production communities organize and how new forms of cooperation unite individuals, firms and communities in the development of shared platforms for cumulative innovation. A pervasive objective is to understand how competing logics or interests shape the design and management of new forms of organizing. Her work has been published in Research Policy and Research in Organizational Behavior, among other edited volumes. She has presented her research at numerous industry and academic conferences throughout North America and Europe. Her current research, "Competing on a Common Platform", examines how over 100 firms define grounds for cooperation and contribute to a common and open technical platform while creating a source of competitive differentiation.

Prior to joining the faculty of HBS, Ms. O'Mahony worked as a consultant for Price Waterhouse (now PWC) and Electronic Data Systems. She has also consulted to the Global Business Network and several firms in Silicon Valley. Siobhán received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, an M.P.A from the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, and a B.S. in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University. She can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.

For more by Siobhán O'Mahony, visit the Cutter Consortium Bookstore:

• Adaptation and Diffusion of the Open Source Model: Is it Extreme Collaboration?