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What is Analytics?

"Some companies have built their very businesses on their ability to collect, analyze and act on data. Every company can learn from what these firms do."

Thomas H. Davenport
Professor and Bestselling author

Analytics is the sophisticated analysis and use of business data to enable fact-based decision making at every level of your organization. Analytics can drive superior performance – from customer management to the supply chain to product/service development to strategic planning. For top companies such as Marriott International, Harrah’s Entertainment, Capital One, Amazon.com, NetFlix and the Boston Red Sox, analytics creates a competitive advantage.

About Thomas H. Davenport

Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at BSG Concours. He is the former director of research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His recent article, “Competing on Analytics,” was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Professor Davenport is the author or co-author of twelve books, including the bestsellers Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know, and Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology. His latest book, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, has become a best-seller and is being translated into 10 languages.