Analytics at Work

As a follow-up to the successful Competing on Analytics, authors Tom Davenport, Jeanne Harris, and Robert Morison provide practical frameworks and tools for all companies that want to use analytics. Regardless of a company's strategy, and whether or not analytics are a company's primary source of competitive differentiation, this book will help managers assess their organization's analytical capabilities, provide the tools to build these capabilities and put analytics to work, and answer questions such as:

Tom Davenport is a chaired professor at Babson and an Accenture Fellow, has a well-established reputation on the business implications of technology, and has authored, co-authored, or edited 12 books - 8 with Harvard Business Press. Jeanne Harris has worked with analytics, decision support, and business intelligence at Accenture for over 23 years, and headed the consulting practice in that area for the firm for several years. She is now Executive Research Fellow and Director of Research for the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business. Bob Morison leads research for nGenera (formerly the Concours Group), is co-author of Workforce Crisis, and has co-directed the Business Analytics Concours research program for the past two years.