Competing on Analytics: Updated with a New Introduction
The New Science of Winning
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, 2017
This landmark work, the first to introduce business leaders to analytics, reveals how analytics are rewriting the rules of competition. Updated with fresh content, Competing on Analytics provides the road map for becoming an analytical competitor, showing readers how to create new strategies for their organizations based on sophisticated analytics. Introducing a five-stage model of analytical competition, Davenport and Harris describe the typical behaviors, capabilities, and challenges of each stage. They explain how to assess your company’s capabilities and guide it toward the highest level of competition. With equal emphasis on two key resources, human and technological, this book reveals how even the most highly analytical companies can up their game.For more information and to purchase:
Only Humans Need Apply
Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Julia Kirby, 2016
Accolades abound from Forbes to the Financial Times
Should all of us knowledge workers be nervous about the arrival of AI and other smart technologies in the workplace? Yes and no — the key is to ensure you are well positioned to have your work augmented by them, and not automated.For more information and to purchase:
Big Data at Work
Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, 2014
Accolades abound from Forbes to the Financial Times
Big Data at Work will make believers out of anyone curious about how big data can help. From what it means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective to its opportunities and costs, discover the real business impact of Big Data.For more information and to purchase:
Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Jinho Kim, 2013
Read a review at The New York Times
Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics, Harvard Business School Press, is your go-to guide on “quantitative literacy” — so you develop the analytical skills you need to keep up in today’s data-driven world, no matter your role or experience.For more information and to purchase:
Judgement Calls
12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Brook Manville, 2012
Top 10 Business Book! – Publishers Weekly
Some organizations make consistently good decisions over time. They’ve developed capabilities to increase participation, use data and analytics, and encourage dissent and review. This book has twelve intriguing stories about organizations with great organizational judgment, and the great decisions they consistently make.For more information and to purchase:
Analytics at Work
Smarter Decisions. Better Results.
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Morison, 2010
One of the top fifteen must reads for 2010! – CIO Insight
A “how-to” guide for developing an analytical capability in your company, and putting it to work. As a follow-up to the bestseller Competing on Analytics, Tom Davenport and his co-authors provide practical frameworks and tools for all organizations wanting to become more analytical and to make better data-based decisions.For more information and to purchase:
