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Knowledge Management Case Book: Siemens Best Practises

4 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport, Gilbert J. B. Probst

Wiley-VCH, 2002

Full Scale Knowledge Management
This is a premier book on knowledge management--a definite must read. Although it's a bit pricey and not in main stream distribution, please note that Tom Davenport is the co-editor. The book provides an inside perspective on how Siemens, a 400,000 person global company has scaled KM to be both part of their business practices and their business model. Since they operate in over 190 countries, ...

Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers

15 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2005

Must-read if you have any Knowledge Workers in your company
Knowledge Workers are those people whose main professional output is Knowledge. Because all work requires some knowledge, the boundary can be arbitrary. So, depending on where you draw the line, Knowledge Workers represent ¼ to 1/3 of the labor force in the developed world. Doctors, lawyers, researchers, consultants, and computer programmers all share this trait. We saw (in Corporate Longitude ...

The Attention Economy : Understanding the New Currency of Business

27 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

It deserves your attention
If only I could buy some time... Surely you must have felt this way. However, this book would convince you that you should have rather said: if I could buy some more attention... Overall, I found the book to be quite thought provoking. Here's why: As the name of the book suggests we deal here with economy, and the study of economy essentially is about the management of scarce resources. In ...

Working Knowledge

29 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak

Harvard Business School Press, 2000

A Classic on KM
This is an outstanding book written by two well-respected practitioners. Davenport is the Director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change; Prusak is the Executive Director of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management. This book is full of real-world examples and practical ideas. There are valuable chapters on knowledge creation, knowledge codification, and knowledge transfer. There ...

Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology

3 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport, Harvard Business School Press

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1992

A roadmap for process innovation and improvement
Davenport presents a practical roadmap for process improvement and process innovation which I have found very useful as a practitioner. Although not prescriptive, the text provides practitioners with useful very insights which can form the basis of an organisation's business process innovation/improvement methodology.

Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems

12 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2000

An ES Manifesto with Instructions
Davenport does a brilliant job of explaining what enterprise systems are and what they can accomplish in any organization. He suggests, however, that they are worthless "unless they lead to better information or better ways of doing business. I think that enterprise systems are without doubt an impressive technical feat, but I am primarily concerned that organizations get business value from ...

Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy: Strategic Approaches and Tools for Dynamic Innovation ...

1 review
Thomas H. Davenport, Marius Leibold, ...

Wiley, 2006

The must read book for all business researchers and managers
At first glance I thought this book is an ambitious one: why the focus on innovation economy (is it really different?), and will another book on strategic management have anything significantly new - and practical - to say? The wish that I have, and I guess many other business managers, is for simple and practical strategy approaches and tools to handle the speed and (often bewildering) ...

What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking

12 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak

Harvard Business School Press, 2003

Excellent read
A most interesting and delightfully opinionated book is the latest offering from Tom Davenport and Larry Prusack. Easily digested, this book attempts to `out-meta' the competition in the game of management idea mindshare, by giving a framework by which other ideas are evaluated for their applicability to your organization. `He who owns the process wins' is an oft-quoted cliché at ManyWorlds.com ...

Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers

1 review
Thomas H Davenport

Your Coach Digital, 2006

Fascinating....and most helpful!
This is a fascinating book that offers valuable information to anyone running a business. Davenport presents a unique strategy which will yield the greatest performance from knowledge workers in our companies today.

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

54 reviews

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Five stars but... for the right audience!
I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior consultant, a manager looking for Business Intelligence ideas, an expert looking for tools to sell ...

Competing on Analytics (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

3 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business Review, 2006

An excellent overview of the power of analytics
Davenport's 2006 Harvard Business Review article is a great overview of the power and importance that business analytics can play in creating the competitive platform upon which a business can succeed. As other reviewers have found out, Davenport later expanded this article into a book, Competing on Analytics, co-authored with Jeanne Harris, published in 2007. While using the same name as the ...

Mastering Information Management

1 review
Donald Marchand, Thomas H Davenport, ...

Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000

The latest thoughts on Information Technology management
I picked up this book because it seemed to be the best current book about the state of the art of Information Technology management. It contains short easy to read articles on topics ranging from Supply Chain, Knowledge Management and eCommerce written by some IT gurus including many academics, Peter Drucker and some Anderson people. It comes with bit of a European perspective. I have read that ...

The Architecture of Business Intelligence: Aligning a Robust Technical Environment with Business Strategies
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

While improvements in technology's ability to store data can be astonishing, most organization's ability to manage, analyze, and apply data has not kept pace. In this chapter, the authors identify the technology, data, and governance processes needed for analytical competition.

Competing on Analytics with External Processes: Customer and Supplier Applications
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Because externally focused processes require cooperation from outsiders, as well as their resources, managing analytics related to external processes is a greater challenge than managing those related to processes within an organization's complete control. This chapter addresses applications of analytics to external relationships with customers and suppliers.

Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

1 review
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business Review, 2003

The strengths and pitfalls of enterprise systems
Thomas H. Davenport is Professor at the Boston University School of Management. He is the author of 'Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know' (1997). This article was published in the July-August 1998 issue of the Harvard Business Review. "Enterprise systems appear to be a dream come true. For managers who have struggled ... the promise of an off-the-shelf solution to the ...

Analytics and Business Performance: Transforming the Ability to Compete on Analytics into a Lasting ...
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

This chapter explores the links between the extensive use of analytics and business performance, describing how several highly successful companies have transformed their ability to compete analytically into a key point of differentiation and long-term competitive advantage.

Competing on Analytics with Internal Processes: Financial, Manufacturing, R&D, and Human Resource Applications
Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

This chapter focuses on internal business processes and the challenge not only of identifying internal applications of business analytics, but of finding some applications that are clearly strategic and involve competitive advantage.

Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

When a change is needed
This book offers great insight into creating an information envionment within the company. I think that the numerous examples for real life companies provide credibility to his claims. However this is for people who are building and IT strucutre for scratch or are looking for a paradigm shift in how they do IT? If your IT envionment is not producing results this is a great place to start. It ...

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