Jeanne G. Harris
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Jeanne G. Harris

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Jeanne G. Harris teaches Leading Business Analytics at Columbia University of New York. Jeanne is also executive research fellow emerita and the former Global Managing Director of Information Technology Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance in Chicago. At Accenture, she led 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 co-author with Tom Davenport of the extensively updated 2017 edition of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" published by Harvard Business Review Press. "Competing on Analytics" demonstrates how high performance businesses are successfully leveraging big data, machine learning, AI, optimization and other analytical techniques;thereby building competitive strategies around data-driven insights that are generating outstanding business performance. Harvard Business Review editors named the bestselling first edition of Competing on Analytics (translated into 13 languages) one of the top breakthrough ideas of the 21st Century. CIO Insight magazine included the book on their list of "the most provocative, engaging business books of all-time." "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010) (with co-authors Tom Davenport and Bob Morison) is an indispensable guide for managers seeking to help their organizations create and sustain an analytical capability that enables them to routinely make better decisions in every aspect of their business. During more than thirty years at Accenture, Jeanne consulted to a wide variety of organizations in many different industries worldwide. She led Accenture's business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge management, and data warehousing consulting practices. Jeanne has worked extensively with clients seeking to improve their managerial information, decision-making, analytical and knowledge management capabilities. Jeanne's work has been published in numerous business and academic publications, including Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Her research has been quoted extensively by the international business press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes Magazine, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Directors and Boards,Computerworld and Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Jeanne has been a keynote speaker at dozens of corporate events for executive audiences, including those sponsored by the Harvard Business Review, Computerworld, Strata, Gartner, and major software vendors.
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