Thomas H. Davenport
Thomas Hayes "Tom" Davenport, Jr. is an American academic and author specializing in analytics, business process innovation, knowledge management, and artificial intelligence. He is currently the President’s Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.
Davenport has written, coauthored, or edited twenty books, including the first books on analytical competition, business process reengineering and achieving value from enterprise systems, and the best seller, Working Knowledge , 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 The Wall Street Journal, CIO, InformationWeek, and Forbes 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. In 2012 he was named one of the world's "Top 50 Business School Professors" by Poets and Quants and Fortune Magazine.
One of his most popular books, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, provides guidelines for basing competitive strategies on the analysis of business data, and highlights several firms that do so.
One of his sons, Hayes Davenport, is a television comedy writer and podcaster living in Los Angeles.
His other son, Chase Davenport, makes surfboards and researches artificial intelligence in San Francisco.
