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Blog Posts by Tom Davenport

In the last several months I’ve been subjecting much of the world to my spoken thoughts on analytics. I’ve been to Europe (twice), Brazil (twice), Mexico, Argentina, Hong Kong, Chile,…
REAL ESTATE AND OTHER VIRGIN ANALYTICAL TERRITORYThere are many businesses and industries around the world that are virgin territory for analytics. Yes, many industries have considerable analytical activity underway, and…
One of the most astounding developments in analytics over the past several decades is the rise of analytical professional services. Until a couple of years ago, organizations wanting to build…
Leading payers, providers & life sciences organizations from the health care industry gathered recently for the kickoff of IIA’s Health Care and Life Sciences Analytics Research Council. The goal of…
If your organization is in the business of supplying data—either to internal or external customers—it’s likely that your business is rapidly becoming commoditized. There is so much data in the…
My friend and IIA colleague Eric McNulty is right in his recent post that there is a lot of talk about analytics in Washington these days. I was there for…
There is a lot of chatter these days about analytics related to social phenomena: social media analytics, social network analytics, etc. My impression (after talking about it with some folks…
About 20 years ago, there was a movement afoot in the IT industry called “Information Engineering.” Promulgated by vendors and consultants—at first those trying to sell to the government, and…
I’m in Europe on a “Leading with Analytics” tour sponsored by SAS, and facilitated by Harvard Business Review. So far we’ve been in Brussels and Paris (what Donald Rumsfeld called…