Thomas H. Davenport
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Thomas H. Davenport (born October 17, 1954) is an American academic and author specializing in business process innovation and knowledge management. He currently holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.
He is an Accenture Fellow, and in 2003 was the the Academic Director of the Information Work Productivity Council, a research consortium of seven technology firms. He also directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index, and most recently, the Accenture Institute of Strategic Change in Cambridge, MA.
From 1994 to 1998, he was a Professor of Management Science and Information Systems and Director of the Information Management Program at the The University of Texas at Austin.
Davenport has written, co-authored or edited ten books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems, as well as hundreds of articles and columns for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, CIO and many others.
In 2003 Davenport was named one of the Top 25 Consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine. In a study conducted by Accenture, he was named one of the Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the world.
His newest book, 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. It will be published later in the year.
