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Description In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling. Exemplars of analytics are using new tools to identify their most profitable customers and offer them the right price, to accelerate product innovation, to optimize supply chains, and to identify the true drivers of financial performance. A wealth of examples—from organizations as diverse as Amazon, Barclay’s, Capital One, Harrah’s, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and the Boston Red Sox—illuminate how to leverage the power of analytics. ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
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Description: Thomas Davenport argues that knowledge workers are vastly different from other types of workers in their motivations, attitudes, and need for autonomy—and so they require different management techniques to improve their performance and productivity. Based on extensive research involving over one hundred companies and more than six hundred knowledge workers, Thinking for a Living provides rich insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel. Davenport identifies four major categories of knowledge workers and presents a unique framework for matching specific types of workers with the management strategies that yield the greatest performance. Written by the field’s premier thought leader, Thinking for a Living reveals how to maximize the brain power that fuels organizational success. ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (April 2003) Amazon.com
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Description Change management. Reengineering. Knowledge management. Major new management ideas are thrown at today's companies with increasing frequency-and each comes with evangelizing gurus and eager-to-assist implementation consultants. Only a handful of these ideas will be a good fit for your organization. Choose the right idea at the right time and your company can become more efficient, more effective, and more innovative. Choose the wrong one-or jump on the right bandwagon too late-and your company could fall hopelessly behind. Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak say that some managers have found ways to improve their odds of success in the risky but essential game of idea management. In What's the Big Idea?, they introduce a largely unsung class of managers they call-idea practitioners-individuals who do the real work of importing and implementing new ideas into businesses. While gurus reap most of the credit when big ideas take flight, Davenport and Prusak's research reveals that idea practitioners actually play the most important role: They turn the right ideas into action. Drawing
from decades of consulting, academic, and business experience
and from their novel study of more than 100 of these critical
change leaders. What's
the Big Idea? offers tools and frameworks for:
Davenport and Prusak prove that there are no faddish management ideas-only faddish ways of adopting them. Encouraging managers to embrace the power of ideas while avoiding the hype that often accompanies them, this pragmatic guide shows how passion and reason combine to build innovative companies.
Reviews: "In
this original and important book, Davenport and Prusak answer
their own question: the big idea is how ideas and their creators
have shaped the foundations of management practices over the past
four or five decades. What’s
the Big Idea? thoroughly covers the history and sociology
of ideas that have made a huge difference in how business is practiced."
"What's
the Big Idea? is a brilliant guide to finding and implementing
sound business ideas. Davenport and Prusak have uncovered fundamental
truths about business knowledge that simply cannot be found elsewhere.
This is a timeless and relentlessly useful book. If you want your
company to keep getting better every day, buy this charming and
well-written book, study it, and keep talking about it with your
colleagues." "Davenport
and Prusak’s innovative analysis focuses not only on the
critical ideas that change the course of business performance,
but, more important, on the people and processes that transform
ideas into results. In their fascinating description of ‘idea
practitioners,’ they will help readers to attain that lofty
status." ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (September 2002)
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Description: Reviews: "Tom
Davenport and John Beck bring a sharp eye to one of the greatest
challenges facing CEOs: ensuring that key issues are at the front-of-mind
of the organization. The
Attention Economy shows you how to tune out the unnecessary
and tune into what's most important."
"As we drown in a sea of information and consistently fail
to get our messages across, we all know intuitively that the
attention economy is real. This insightful and informative
book explains the mechanisms of attention and offers pragmatic
techniques for managing your attention and capturing that of others."
"After reading The
Attention Economy, it is clear to me that attention isn't
really 'paid'-it's either given as a loan or managed as an investment.
For companies that appreciate those distinctions, Davenport and
Beck's book is an essential management resource."
"Davenport and Beck have written the first full exposition
of how attention works in the knowledge economy. A stimulating
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (May 2000) Amazon.com
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Description: Drawing from their work with more than 30 knowledge-rich firms, Davenport and Prusak—experienced consultants with a track record of success—examine how all types of companies can effectively understand, analyze, measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporate wisdom into market value. They categorize knowledge work into four sequential activities—accessing, generating, embedding, and transferring—and look at the key skills, techniques, and processes of each. While they present a practical approach to cataloging and storing knowledge so that employees can easily leverage it throughout the firm, the authors caution readers on the limits of communications and information technology in managing intellectual capital.
Reviews: "Davenport and Prusak have successfully addressed the knowledge management initiative with a practical eye toward helping readers to understand the advantages and value of this emerging field. Business readers will benefit from the attention paid to presenting the structure and concepts of knowledge management in a coherent, realistic fashion." —Pete Tierney, Chairman, CEO and President, Inference Corporation "Managers who have grown weary from a diet of fascinating but abstract discussions of intellectual capital and organizational learning will do well to pick up a copy of Working Knowledge. Davenport and Prusak tackle the practical issues of how companies can generate, codify, and transfer knowledge, providing a blueprint of how to put knowledge to work as a source of competitive advantage. This book is a must read for corporate- level executives and information management specialists alike." —Christopher Bartlett, Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
"When new-car developers at Ford Motor Company wanted to
learn why the original Taurus design team was so successful, no
one could tell them. No one remembered or had recorded what made
that effort so special; the knowledge gained in the Taurus project
was lost forever. Indeed, the most valuable asset in any company
is probably also its most elusive and difficult to manage: knowledge.
Authors Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak assert that learning
how to identify, manage, and foster knowledge is vital for companies
who hope to compete in today's fast-moving global economy. ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
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Description: Why Mastering Information Management? Few topics are more pressing at present – or more relevant to a company's short-term profitability and long-term survival prospects – yet executives remain confused by much of the advice they receive and disappointed by the payback on many of their investments. One reason may be companies' growing obsession with technology and their tendency to neglect the actual information which is stored, accessed, retrieved and distributed by that technology, the quality of the information, and the needs of users. Note that the title of this book is not Mastering IT – that would imply more concentration on what goes on inside the boxes on your desk and on how networks actually function. The purpose of Mastering Information Management, as clearly explained in the opening article, is to put the "I" squarely back in IT. There are 11 modules: Improving Company Performance; Competing with Knowledge; Managing IT in the Business; The Smarter Supply Chain; New Organizational Forms; Knowledge Management; Electronic Commerce; The Human Factor; Strategic Uses of IT; Innovation and the Learning Organization; and Guru and Practitioner Perspectives. Readers will find analysis of, and solutions to, a wide range of problems – everything from data-mining and building trust in cyberspace to collaborative product development and the role of chief knowledge officers. There is a strong emphasis on the human dimension, notably on how people react to technology-led change; there are articles on virtual offices and networks, and there are case studies on the information challenges in traditional manufacturing companies and internet start-ups alike. Brief introductions to each module outline the main themes, and the summaries accompanying each article are designed to help readers quickly identify particular areas of interest. Lists of further reading should be helpful for those who want to delve deeper or look up references. As with other FT Mastering books there are individuals to thank. Appropriately e-mail greatly facilitated the planning and construction of this series, but as this book constantly stresses technology is merely the enabler. My co-editors Tom Davenport and Donald Marchand provided enormous support throughout while others (notably Ahmet Aykac, general director of Theseus International Management Institute) also contributed valuable insights and advice. The real heroes are the professors, other business school faculty and management experts who generously gave of their time to write the 50 or so articles in this book. They came from the following academic institutions and businesses: Andersen Consulting; Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University; The Boston Consulting Group; Boston University School of Management; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Los Angeles; Claremont Graduate University; Cranfield School of Management; Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina; Gartner Group Pacific; Harvard Business School; IBM Institute for Knowledge Management; IMD; INSEAD; Intel; London Business School; Marseille Graduate School of Business; Melbourne Business School; University of Miami, Florida; University of Missouri; MIT Center for Co-ordination Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; Nationwide Building Society; Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University; Rotterdam School of Management; Sprint Business; Templeton College, Oxford University; University of Texas at Austin; Theseus International Management Institute; Ukerna; University of Toronto; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania." - Tim Dickson, Publisher and Director of the Financial Times Mastering Series -------
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (February 2000) Amazon.com
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Description: How many organizations would doubt the promise of an integrated enterprise system (ES)? Not many, judging by a $15 billion industry. The combination of an ES as a platform for organizational information and Internet technology for gaining access to it adds up to the ideal solution for company-wide data sharing in real time. Not surprisingly, small and large companies worldwide are either considering an ES, in the process of implementing one, or living with the results. Yet, says Tom Davenport, unless managers view ES adoption and implementation as a business decision rather than a technology decision, they may be risking disappointment The first strategic guide to the ES decision, Mission Critical will be indispensable to general managers and information technology specialists at all stages of the implementation process. Reviews: "Finally,
here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding
of enterprise systems-their promise, their peril, and their future.
Any manager not familiar with Davenport's book and its emphasis
on information management will be lacking in the business literacy
so necessary for success." "Transformation
in any corporation requires excellence in strategy, organization,
and systems. Davenport illustrates the success that results when
all three components are effectively addressed and the risks in
implementing systems when they are not." ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
Publisher:
Oxford Univ Press (June 1997) Amazon.com
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Description: Davenport
illuminates the critical components of information ecology, and
at every step along the way, he provides a quick assessment survey
for managers to see how their organization measures up. He discusses
the importance of developing an overall strategy for information
use; explores the infighting, jealousy over resources, and political
battles that can frustrate information sharing; underscores the
importance of looking at how people really use information (how
they search for it, modify it, share it, hoard it, and even ignore
it) and the kinds of information they want; describes the ideal
information staff, who not only store and retrive information,
but also prune, provide context, enhance style, and choose the
right presentation medium (in an age of work overload, vital information
must be presented compellingly so the appropriate people recognize
and use it); examines how information management should be done
on a day to day basis; and presents several alternatives to the
machine engineering approach to structuring and modeling information. ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES
Publisher:
Harvard Business School Press (October 1992) Amazon.com
Average Customer Review: "Process Innovation takes a timely topic -- reengineering business processes - and links it with the rapidly emerging puissanc eif information technology managment. This powerful combination opens up new creative options to business leaders in thinking through quantumimprovements for their key business purposes. Davenport's book is well structured and easy to follow with concise, action-oriented summaries enabling the reader to take some ideas and put them into practice." —Gary T. DiCamillo, president , US Power Tools, Black & Decker Corporation "Davenport is the new breed of managment researcher; he combines academic rigor with practical experience in responding to the 1990s competitive reality of probing ho wgeneral managers can make 'big things happen.' Process Innovation is breakthrough thinking on how to exploit the real potential of IT. This work offers no silver bullets,' but a pathway for the serious general manager who must incorporate IT into his or her strategic management repertoire. Bold initiatives are required, and Process Innovation contains 'best-of -the-best practices,' and sound guidelines on how to apply these practices. I recommend Davenport's book as an importanat must read for the 1990s general manager.—Ricard L. Nolan, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School ------- VIEW ALL BOOK TITLES |
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