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Anthony Marshall is Senior Research Director at the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). He is global leader of IBM's top-rated thought leadership portfolio. Anthony leads a global team of 60 technology and industry experts, statisticians, economists and analysts. Anthony provides direction and oversight to as many as one hundred thought leadership studies annually across major technologies including AI, cloud, quantum, blockchain and IoT. Anthony leads industry thought leadership along with major functional research including CTO, CIO, CFO, CHRO, IX, and security. Anthony also leads a global network of regional IBVs in China, India, Japan, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.Anthony remains personally active in original research and thought leadership including innovation, digital transformation, ecosystems and platforms, workforce skills, AI and hybrid cloud.Prior to joining IBV, Anthony led numerous strategy consulting engagements with leading global banks, financial markets firms, and insurance companies. Anthony began his career in public policy, working on microeconomic reform, deregulation and privatization of major utility industries and infrastructure.

Anthony led IBM’s thought leadership agenda across multiple research areas including innovation, mobility, cloud, AI, workforce skills, and analytics. Anthony also led thought leadership for banking and insurance and collaborated on others research including higher education, healthcare, life sciences, chemicals and petroleum, and energy and utilities.

Anthony lead strategy and analytics thought leadership in the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). Specific research areas included innovation management, digital transformation, mobile, cloud business models and partnering strategy.Anthony led the 2012 IBM Global CEO Study, at the time the world’s largest face-to-face survey of CEOs and public sector leaders.

Anthony led numerous strategy consulting engagements with Fortune 500 and global businesses. In addition to advising major global banks, brokerages and insurance companies on business and technology strategy, Anthony led a change management project with a major global airline alliance. Anthony also worked with several media networks, consumer product businesses and healthcare providers. Anthony led the initial CHQ commercialization and monetization strategy for IBM Watson.Specific focus areas that Anthony advised on included:- Innovation management, organization, governance- Digital strategy, digital transformation- Sourcing and reengineering- Merger, acquisition and divestitures- Market entry and growth- New business formation

- Taught Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Business Strategy, Principles of Finance

Anthony led a global benchmarking analysis of University of Melbourne Economics Department against other leading universities within Australia and globally. He coordinated development of an analytical database and online interface to enable easy and immediate publishing metrics.

- Lectured Microeconomics- Also taught Business Strategy, Statistics, Macroeconomics

Anthony was Strategy Manager at Mainspring Consulting, a leading business and operations strategy firm with offices in New York, Cambridge, Chicago and Los Angeles. Mainspring was subsequently purchased by IBM to form part of IBM's Strategy and Change Practice.

Anthony was Director of Business Strategy at eCENTRIC Consulting, an internet strategy, design, and implementation firm located in New York and Connecticut. Anthony led several strategy and e-business engagements with leading Fortune 500 clients.

Anthony was Senior Consultant with VIA International Consulting, a distribution and marketing strategy consulting firm with offices in New York, Chicago, London and Singapore. Anthony led strategy projects with several US and global clients.

- Taught Macroeconomics, Money and Banking

- Lectured Microeconomics

- Taught Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Trade, Statistics

Anthony advised Australian Governments on privatization in the gas, electricity, rail, ports and insurance industries, inter-government regulatory recognition, labor market deregulation and economic policy.