Michael E. Raynor, of Deloitte Consulting LLP, is a Distinguished Fellow with Deloitte Research. He provides consulting services to senior executives in the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, energy, and manufacturing. In his client projects and research, Michael explores the challenges of corporate strategy and innovation. 

His first book, The Innovator’s Solution, coauthored with Professor Clayton M. Christensen, has been on The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times bestseller lists, and won several “best book of the year” awards in 2003. His second book, The Strategy Paradox, was released by Currency/Doubleday in February 2007 and was recently selected for BusinessWeek's list of "Best Business Books of the Year." 

In addition, Michael has published extensively in managerial and academic journals and teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He has also taught at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Michael has a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, a master's degree in business administration from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Harvard University. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

My Latest Thinking: 

The Strategy Paradox
The trade-off between risk and return is the stock-in-trade of finance professionals, but it’s been ignored by the strategy field....until now. Based on groundbreaking large-scale empirical research and meticulous case studies of success and failure, The Strategy Paradox reveals that precisely the same behaviors that are the prerequisites of success are also necessarily the ingredients of total failure. But there is a way out. It’s not easy, but at stake is the possibility of higher financial returns and systematically lower risk — about as close to getting something for nothing as you’re ever likely to find.

The Innovator’s Solution
Innovation has typically been seen as a largely random process, but it needn’t be. In this book, the follow-up to the worldwide bestseller The Innovator’s Dilemma, Michael and coauthor Clayton M. Christensen of the Harvard Business School explain how companies can reliably and predictably create new growth businesses by focusing on their worst customers.

Money Now, Mediocrity Later 
Michael explains how a narrow focus on current performance at the expense of long-term strategy can be just as damaging to future results as to today’s.

Strategic Uncertainty: A New Risk Management Paradigm for CFOs 
Michael leads a Webcast presentation discussing leading-edge thinking around risk management as it relates to fundamental business strategy.