Phil Simon (born ca. 1972) is an American speaker, professor, and author. He writes about management, technology, disruption, communication, and analytics.[1]

Phil Simon
Simon speaking at PostalVision 2020 in 2012.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University (BS)
Cornell University (MILR)
Occupation(s)Author, public speaker, and professor
Websitewww.philsimon.com

Education

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Simon studied economics and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving his BS in Policy and Management in 1993. He studied labor relations at Cornell University and obtained his MILR in 1997.

Work

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Simon started his career as human-resource consultant in 1997 at Capital One for a year, and at Merck & Co. for two years. After two more years as an application consultant for Lawson Software, he started his own consulting firm.

He has written 14 books, including The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace,[2] Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers and the Surprising Future of Business Applications,[3] and Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work.[4] He also contributed to the 2020 book Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series), along with Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland.[5]

In May 2016, Simon accepted a position as a full-time faculty member at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.[6] He left ASU in May 2020.

His work has appeared in Fast Company,[7] the New York Times,[8][9][10] CNN,[11] Inc. Magazine,[12] Harvard Business Review[13] The Huffington Post,[14] and many other sites.

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In February 2016, Simon received a 2015 Axiom award for Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It[15] in the category of networking / communication. In 2012, he received a 2011 Axiom best business technology book award for The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business.[16]

Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.[17]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ Simon, Phil. "Phil Simon home page".
  2. ^ Simon, Phil (2023). The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace. Racket Publishing. ISBN 9798985814767.
  3. ^ Simon, Phil (2022). Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers and the Surprising Future of Business Applications. Racket Publishing. ISBN 9798985814736.
  4. ^ Simon, Phil (2021). Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work. Motion Publishing. ISBN 9780982930229.
  5. ^ Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series). Harvard Business Review Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1633698956.
  6. ^ Simon, Phil. "Professor Simon". Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  7. ^ Ott, Adrian. "The Age Of The Platform". Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  8. ^ "Tech Talk Podcast: Great Big Privacy Buttons". Podcast – New York Times. November 23, 2011.
  9. ^ "TechTalk – New York Times". The New York Times.
  10. ^ "TechTalk Podcast". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  11. ^ Nusca, Andrew. "For online businesses, how much downtime is acceptable?". CNN. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  12. ^ "All About the Platform". Inc. Authors.
  13. ^ Simon, Phil. "Harvard Business Review Articles – Phil Simon". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  14. ^ Simon, Phil. "Phil Simon's Huffington Post Articles". Huffington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  15. ^ "Announcing the 2016 Axiom Business Book Awards Results". Independent Publisher.
  16. ^ "Announcing Results of the 5th Annual Axiom Business Book Awards". Independent Publisher.
  17. ^ Simon, Phil (April 25, 2012). "Korean edition – The Age of the Platform".
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