Thomas H. Davenport

Thomas Hayes "Tom" Davenport, Jr. (born October 17, 1954) 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'' (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 ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''CIO'', ''InformationWeek'', and ''Forbes'' magazines.

One of his most popular books (coauthored with Jeanne Harris), ''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. Provided by Wikipedia