Tom Davenport is Director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College, and a Senior Fellow of HBS Interactive, a research and education arm of Harvard Business School. He is a widely published author and acclaimed speaker on the topics of information and knowledge management, reengineering, enterprise systems, and electronic business and markets. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior and 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 Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index.

Tom’s latest book—co-authored with John Beck—is The Attention Economy (Harvard Business School Press), which describes how individuals and organizations can manage “the new currency of business.” Prior to this, Tom wrote, co-authored or edited eight other books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and enterprise systems. He has written over 100 articles for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. Tom also writes a monthly column created expressly for him by CIO Magazine called “Davenport on...,” and another for Darwin magazine on information technology and organizational change. He was recently named one of 10 “Masters of the New Economy” by CIO, and one of 25 “E-Business Gurus” by Darwin magazine.