Thomas H. Davenport Books
Davenport is a professor of information technology and management at Babson College and a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
Known for: The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work, The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
Books by Thomas H. Davenport
The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
The AI Advantage explains how businesses can leverage artificial intelligence technologies to improve performance, streamline operations, and create new value. Drawing on real-world case studies, the ...
The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
In this influential work, Davenport and Beck argue that in an age of information overload, attention has become the scarcest and most valuable resource in business. They explore how organizations can ...
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The Current State of AI Adoption
From our research, it quickly became evident that despite all the public attention, most organizations are still in early stages of AI maturity. They usually begin with *narrow* AI—applications designed to perform one specific task extremely well. Unlike the cinematic fantasies of fully autonomous s...
From The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
Understanding Cognitive Technologies
To navigate the landscape of AI, we distinguish three types of cognitive capabilities that organizations are deploying today. The first is *robotic process automation* (RPA). These are the digital equivalents of assembly line workers—software bots that perform rules-based tasks quickly and without f...
From The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
From Information Abundance to Attention Scarcity
When we talk about the attention economy, it’s important to understand how we arrived here. The late twentieth century ushered in an unprecedented explosion of information technology. Data systems, the internet, mobile communications, and global media made information cheap and ubiquitous. But econo...
From The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
The Nature and Dimensions of Attention
Before attention can be managed, it must be understood. Attention is both a mental and an organizational phenomenon — a selective process that determines which stimuli or ideas gain cognitive or collective focus. We distinguish between voluntary and captive forms of attention. Voluntary attention is...
From The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
About Thomas H. Davenport
Davenport is a professor of information technology and management at Babson College and a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
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