Jean-Philippe Deschamps is Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at IMD.

He focuses his research, teaching and consulting activities on the management of innovative new products with an emphasis on:
- Managing products and technologies strategically;
- Linking technology and product strategies;
- Managing innovation and product development as as a process;
- Building an innovation culture and setting up innovation management mechanisms;
- Leading innovation, i.e. promoting, steering and sustaining innovation.

Professor Deschamps has designed, directed and taught in IMD's "Managing the Innovation Process" program. He is a key member of the Faculty on "Mastering the Technology Enterprise", a program offered by IMD in collaboration with Polytechnic Universities of Zurich (ETA) and Lausanne (EPFL). He also teaches on "Driving Strategic Innovation", offered jointly by IMD and MIT. In addition to these open-enrollment programs, he has designed and directed a number of specific programs on product management, product strategy and innovation management for a variety of multinational companies.

Prior to joining IMD, Professor Deschamps was based in Brussels as a corporate vice-president with Arthur D. Little, and chairman of the firm’s technology and innovation management practice, which he created in 1981. Before that, he was Arthur D. Little’s first European practice leader for strategy and organization. He has thirty years of internationalmanagement consulting experience throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle-East. Jean-Philippe Deschamps started his career as a commercial attaché in the New York City office of the French Embassy in the United States.

He graduated in marketing and business management from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris; from the European Institute of Business Administration, INSEAD in Fontainebleau, and from the Harvard Business School.

He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and co-author of Product Juggernauts – How Companies Mobilize to Generate Streams of Market Winners, translated in six languages and long featured in the best-selling list of the Harvard Business School Press. His new book, Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Promote, Steer and Sustain Innovation has been published by Wiley/Jossey-Bass in April 2008. He was recognized by The Economist as one of Europe's influential innovation management thinkers and has given conferences and lectures throughout the world, including twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos.