Stephan H. (Steve) Haeckel (born May 22, 1936) is an American management theorist and former director of Strategic Studies at IBM’s Advanced Business Institute, who developed the idea of the sense-and-respond organization[1] as an adaptive enterprise.
[2][3] Haeckel received a BS in engineering and an MBA from the Washington University in St. Louis.
In 2002 Haeckel retired as the Director of Strategic Studies of the Advanced Business Institute at IBM Palisades.
[5] The idea of the sense and respond organization was first introduced in a 1993 article by Haeckel and Richard L. Nolan in Harvard Business Review, "Managing by Wire".
[6] The online repository of intellectual capital on the Sense & Respond Post-industrial managerial paradigm provides access to articles, essays, perspectives and updates on the origin, development, theory, principles, competences and application case studies of Sense & Respond as a business concept.