New Idea Wizard

Voted the third leading business-strategy analyst (just behind Peter Drucker and Tom Friedman) in Optimize Magazine, Thomas Davenport is a world-renowned thought-leader who has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in business, research, and academia as the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College. Tom earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in social science and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC.

Tom's list of best selling books reflect his many first-to-market ideas, including:

• Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (Harvard Business School Press, 2007)
• Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers (Harvard Business School Press, 2005)
• What's the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking (Harvard Business School Press, May 2003)
• The Attention Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). Named one of the ten best books of 2001 by Amazon.com and by Borders.com and was the winner of the Library Journal award for one of the best business books of 2002.
• Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
• Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)
• Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through InformationTechnology (Harvard Business School Press, 1993).

An agile and prolific thinker, Tom has written over 100 articles for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and the Financial Times, and is quoted frequently in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, Business 2.0, the Boston Globe, and Fast Company. Tom is also interviewed frequently by the broadcast media and especially enjoys appearing on NPR's Marketplace. In 2007, he was ranked one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry (and the highest ranking academic) by Ziff-Davis and has been named one of 10 "Masters of the New Economy" by CIO Magazine, one of 25 "E-Business Gurus" by Darwin, one of the most trusted consultants by Optimize Magazine, and one of the top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine.

Tom's talks cover such topics such as Competing on Analytics, New Business Ideas & Managerial Innovation, Knowledge Management, Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity, The Value of Enterprise Systems, Attention Management, and Business Process Engineering/Business Process Outsourcing. Praise for his presentations is consistently impressive: "I learned more from this speaker in one hour than from any I've ever heard." "The smartest business speaker out there!"; and "Appropriately provocative."

With his vast storehouse of industry stories, research & data, and cutting edge ideas, Tom Davenport balances research-based business acumen with practical application. His areas of expertise include improving the productivity of knowledge workers, information and knowledge management, attention management, idea generation, innovation, competing on analytics, managing enterprise applications for business value, and business process reengineering. More information on Tom Davenport is available at his website, www.tomdavenport.com >>