Disruptive Innovation and the 'Uberization' of Everything: An Evening with Ted Graham, MBA’96

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Canada's innovation leader, Ted Graham, completed 100 drives as an UberX driver to see what he could learn about disruptive innovation to bring back to his industry. His first-hand account became a widely read article, the subject of numerous CBC interviews and a TEDx talk. His book The Uber of Everything helps readers understand the implications of Uber and its imitators across a multitude of industries.
 
Ted Graham is the innovation leader at PwC where he helps to “turn ideas into invoices”. He is the founder of the South Core Innovation Hub, a collaborative group of innovation leaders. Before PwC, Ted was a strategy consultant at McKinsey with a specialization in understanding and leveraging networks to influence the spread of ideas.
 
Join Smith alumni, students and guests as he discusses the 'Uberization' of today’s world: how companies are finding ways to give customers what they want, when they want it.