John Hagel III

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John Hagel III is an American management consultant and author.

In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley–based research center.^[1] The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne.^[2]

Hagel is also involved with several other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts research on complex adaptive systems,^[3] and Independent Institute.^[4] Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.^[5]

He is credited with inventing the term "infomediary" in his book, NetWorth,^[6] co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.

Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC.He has also been awarded two prizes by the Harvard Business Review for Best Article and has been called an industry thought leader by the World Economic Forum and Business Week. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy.^[7]