CV Michael Shamiyeh

Michael Shamiyeh holds degrees from Harvard, AA London and TU Vienna and is head and professor of DOM Research Laboratory and CEO of Shamiyeh Associates. He concerns himself with exploring the relevance of the creative-analytical approach at work in architectural design in solving (complex) problems for strategic business thinking and innovation. At the turn of 2008 he examined the results of his inquiry in the context of McKinsey. Since early 2008 he investigates this topic at the Department for Strategic Management at the University of St. Gallen, an engagement that will last for the next three years.

Michael has published in several international journals and books as well as popular media. He published four books whereas the one on “What People Want” (Birkhaeuser) advanced to a bestseller.

He, respectively his firm Shamiyeh Associates, has won several awards including the Innovation Prize (2008) awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Science/ aws, the Future Award (ZuP, 2003) and the Award for Entrepreneurship (2000), both given by the Austrian Government.