Thomas H. Davenport
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Thomas H. Davenport is an American academic and author specializing in business process innovation and knowledge management
. He is currently the President’s Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and Management at Babson College
and Director of Research for Babson Executive Education and leads sponsored research programs on analytics, knowledge management, process management
, and innovation.
Davenport has written, coauthored, or edited eleven other books, including the first books on business process
reengineering
and achieving value from enterprise systems, and the best seller, Working Knowledge (with Larry Prusak) , on knowledge management
. He has written more than one hundred articles for such publications as Harvard Business Review
, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, the Financial Times
, and many other publications. Davenport has also been a columnist for CIO, InformationWeek, and Darwin magazines.
In 2003, Davenport was named one of the world’s 'Top 25 Consultants' by Consulting magazine, and in 2005 was named one of the world’s top three analysts of business and technology by readers of Optimize magazine.
His newest book (coauthored with Jeanne Harris), Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , provides guidelines for basing competitive strategies on the sophisticated analysis of business data, and highlights several firms that do so.
Knowledge management
Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
. He is currently the President’s Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and Management at Babson College
Babson College
Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...
and Director of Research for Babson Executive Education and leads sponsored research programs on analytics, knowledge management, process management
Process management
Process management is the ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process. The term usually refers to the management of business processes and manufacturing processes...
, and innovation.
Davenport has written, coauthored, or edited eleven other books, including the first books on business process
Business process
A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers...
reengineering
Reengineering
Reengineering can refer to:* Trouble shooting* Business process reengineering* Reengineering * Reengineering * User reengineering...
and achieving value from enterprise systems, and the best seller, Working Knowledge (with Larry Prusak) , on knowledge management
Knowledge management
Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
. He has written more than one hundred articles for such publications as Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...
, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, and many other publications. Davenport has also been a columnist for CIO, InformationWeek, and Darwin magazines.
In 2003, Davenport was named one of the world’s 'Top 25 Consultants' by Consulting magazine, and in 2005 was named one of the world’s top three analysts of business and technology by readers of Optimize magazine.
His newest book (coauthored with Jeanne Harris), Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , provides guidelines for basing competitive strategies on the sophisticated analysis of business data, and highlights several firms that do so.
See also
- Attention economyAttention economyAttention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems....
- Attention managementAttention managementAttention management refers to models and tools for supporting the management of attention at the individual or at the collective level , and at the short-term or at a longer term ....
- Business analyticsBusiness analyticsBusiness analytics refers to the skills, technologies, applications and practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business...
- Information ecologyInformation ecologyIn the context of an evolving information society, the term information ecology marks a connection between ecological ideas with the dynamics and properties of the increasingly dense, complex and important digital informational environment and has been gaining progressively wider acceptance in a...
- Knowledge managementKnowledge managementKnowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...