Greg Smith is a Partner at Arthur D. Little (ADL), based in London. He founded and co-leads ADL Catalyst and was previously a member of ADL's Executive Committee, where he had responsibility for ADL's global innovation strategy. His work focuses on pragmatic business strategy in the context of digital transformation, as well as the application of disruptive information technologies in solving intractable business problems in major enterprises. Recently, Mr. Smith has been focusing on how the leading edge of innovation, and in particular advances in AI, can be practically applied within the real-world constraints of complex organizations.

During his career, he alternated between strategic advisory and consultancy roles (ADL, Capgemini, and Atos Consulting) and hands-on technology leadership as CIO of a major private equity–owned logistics company going through a merger in record time. This latter role allowed Mr. Smith to discover the joys of applying Agile principles to wholesale business transformation and the need to be able to explain IT's explicit value contribution. He holds a bachelor of science degree in biological sciences from the University of Leicester, UK, and finds that after 30 years of dormancy within his professional life, the underlying concepts of biology are becoming increasingly valuable at unlocking business problems and articulating solutions — especially where reductive, engineering-based approaches need to be replaced with whole-system, evolutionary thinking. He can be reached at experts@cutter.com.