Analytics and Bottom Line: How Organizations Build Success (Webinar)

Title: Analytics and Bottom Line: How Organizations Build Success (Live Webinar)

Date: Sept 23, 2010

Cost: Free

Description
As more and more companies have discovered, analytics is a powerful business tool that allows organizations to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes with impressive results.

And use of analytics is not regulated to sales and marketing or finance. As analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris have discovered, companies are gaining competitive advantage by embedding analytics in every piece of their organization.

Rather than “going with their gut,” leading-edge companies such as Google, Best Buy, P&G, and Sysco are using sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to get the most value and performance from their talent. Tossing aside traditional HR reporting and backward-looking scorecards, these companies are taking the guesswork out of managing their people by leveraging a range of analytics to improve the way they attract and retain talent, connect their people to business performance, differentiate themselves from competitors, and more.

In this webinar, best-selling authors Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris will present key areas where companies track, analyze, and use data to forecast the organizational demands and opportunities for the future.

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Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC. Davenport is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know and The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business. His last book, Competing on Analytics, is an international bestseller now in its fifth printing.

Jeanne G. Harris is executive research fellow and a senior executive at Accenture’s Institute for High Performance in Chicago. Jeanne leads the Institute’s global research agenda in the areas of information, technology, and analytics. In 2009 Jeanne received Consulting Magazine’s “Women Leaders in Consulting” award for lifetime achievement. She is the coauthor (with Tom Davenport) of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. During her 33 years at Accenture, Jeanne has consulted a wide variety of organizations in many different industries worldwide. She has led Accenture’s business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge management, and data-warehousing consulting practices. She has worked extensively with clients seeking to improve their managerial information, decision-making, analytical, and information-management capabilities. Jeanne has authored numerous book chapters and articles in leading management publications, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and CIO. Her research has been quoted extensively by the international business press, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun.