BUSINESS ANALYTICS LECTURE SERIES - VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

Guest Lecturer: Tom Davenport - "The impact of business analytics on education and business"

When:	Friday, November 21, 2008, 1:30 PM Networking Session to follow at 3:00 PM
Where:	Villanova University, Driscoll Hall, Room 134

About Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport wrote, co-authored, or edited twelve books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems. He has written hundreds of articles and columns for such publications as: Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, and CIO. His most recent book (with Jeanne Harris), Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, was an immediate best-seller and has been translated into 14 languages. In 2003 Tom was named one of the top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting magazine. In 2005 he was rated the third most influential business and technology analyst in the world (after Peter Drucker and Tom Friedman). In 2007 he was the highest-ranking business academic in Ziff-Davis' listing of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry.

Currently, Professor Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College and is responsible for the overall management of the Institute for Process Management. He has taught at Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. Tom has directed research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index.

Tom received a Ph.D. in Business from Harvard University.

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