Tom Davenport, author and co-author of a dozen best-selling books, including The Attention Economy; one-time director of research centers at McKinsey and Accenture; former teacher at Harvard Business School, University of Chicago and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business; and author of the new book Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning from the Harvard Business School Press.

Wednesday, October 10, 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Business-strategy analyst and thought-leader Tom Davenport will explain how leading firms and their HR departments are basing their competitive strategies on the sophisticated analysis of business data. While analytics alone is certainly heavy-lifting, Davenport will describe how their capability goes well beyond data and technology to address the processes, skills and cultures of their organizations. Many of his insights are based on his recent research on firms that compete on the basis of their analytical prowess, and Davenport will provide guidelines for how you can adopt similar approaches in your organization.