Tom Davenport

Boston, Santa Barbara

Freelance Writer and Analyst at Freelance

Analytics and AI person, Red Sox fan, academic who gets out into the world as much as possible. https://t.co/3aV4oUW9m7

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A lovely Sunday morning today. I don’t know why. What did you do? - The Red Hand Files

1 week ago | theredhandfiles.com | Tom Davenport

Dear Zigs, Pete and Mike,On Sunday morning, I wandered through the little town of Lititz in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where I had been rehearsing with The Bad Seeds. The streets were wet and empty, and the sun had finally come out, making it feel like the world was emerging from a less complicated time. I found a place to eat called the Tomato Pie Café, ordered eggs and coffee, and gazed out the window at the cherry blossoms blazing in the sunlight.
AI-Driven Process Intelligence At Westpac

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tom Davenport

I am a big believer in process mining. My devotion to the approach is partly based on a strong belief in the value of a process orientation; I don’t think organizations can improve their operations effectively without it. And I confess I also like process mining because the concept was invented by academics. I feel strongly that the combination of academic thought leadership and thoughtful adoption of their ideas by businesses is very powerful.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #319 - Do you think it’s ok to be paid shit tons of money for your ability to make a dress? kick a ball about? Paint a picture? Make some music? More so than the multitude of ”services” that enable this to happen? I

2 weeks ago | theredhandfiles.com | Tom Davenport

Dear Carol,I woke up early today to write a Red Hand File. I’ve been in the studio all week mixing a recording of the recent, magnificently deranged, Bad Seeds Paris concert, and I haven’t had time to do one. The first question I was greeted with, Carol, as the birds started up their happy chirping outside my bedroom window on this beautiful spring morning, was your grumbly little letter about ‘celebrities’ being grossly overpaid. Are we being paid too much? Maybe.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #317 - I was recently listening to Skeleton Tree and realised all these years I’d misheard one of your lyrics. I always heard…’but the echo comes back EMPTY.’ This line always struck a chord in my heart. I’d recently

1 month ago | theredhandfiles.com | Tom Davenport

Dear Russell,A dark cloud hangs over the album Skeleton Tree. I have always felt it to be a record that possessed a shocking, premonitory energy, like a curse. We began recording the album just before Arthur died and completed it shortly after, and I haven’t listened to the record properly since – I prefer not to go back there. I remember it as such a raw, unadorned and desolate thing.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #316 - My best friend recently said something that felt really spiteful to me. It was so unnecessary and mean and I feel just so wounded. I am furious at my friend. How do I forgive her? What do I even do?

1 month ago | theredhandfiles.com | Tom Davenport

Dear Beatriz and Brendan,About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off. I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant. Perhaps it’s an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don’t know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #313 - They say you should separate the art from the artist. I can’t do that. My childhood heroes have become monsters. Now I read that the song “I Am A God” by Kanye West should be played at your funeral. How the he

2 months ago | theredhandfiles.com | Tom Davenport

Dear Jörg,Numerous letters have come in expressing, in no uncertain terms, disapproval of my fondness for Kanye West’s music. A lot of time and energy has been spent explaining the evil of Nazism, the harm of antisemitism, why it is wrong to sell t-shirts emblazoned with swastikas and why it is unacceptable to coerce one’s girlfriend into standing naked on the red carpet at the Grammys. On that matter, it seems, we can all find some common ground. I agree.
Speeding Up Digital Acquisition Dramatically At The US Navy

Dec 2, 2024 | forbes.com | Tom Davenport

Procurement cycles for the US Department of Defense have historically taken a long time—a decade has not been unusual. Many recent acquisition projects are longer even than the historical norm, and are of course incompatible with the pace of change in contemporary information technologies.
Como a IA generativa entra na rotina da agroindústria

Aug 14, 2024 | forbes.com.br | Tom Davenport

Foi-se o tempo em que o senso comum era de que a IA, especialmente a IA generativa, fosse uma espécie exótica ainda encontrada principalmente no Vale do Silício, na Califórnia, terra das big techs globais de tecnologia, como Apple, Facebook e Google. É também, uma percepção, de que poucas empresas — talvez cerca de 5% ou 6% — começaram a utilizar a IA generativa em seus processos de produção. Mas hoje já há evidências que contradizem essas percepções.
Generative AI Is Everywhere-Including At Birchwood Foods

Aug 7, 2024 | forbes.com | Tom Davenport

You may think that AI, and generative AI in particular, is an exotic species still primarily found in Silicon Valley. You may also have read that relatively few companies—my surveys say about 5 or 6%—have put generative AI use cases into production. However, there is certainly evidence to the contrary of these assertions. Exhibit A is Birchwood Foods, a family-owned meat packing business based in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The 6 Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI

Jul 8, 2024 | hbr.org | Tom Davenport |John Sviokla

Generative AI (gen AI) is all the rage, and with good reason. With it, AI crosses the frontier into knowledge work, generating content that could previously only be created by creative human beings. This opens the possibility of much greater productivity and performance across the knowledge economy, but it raises many issues about how best to make such work productive and effective.

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22 Aug 24

Join me at @Sprinklr’s #CXWISE2024 as we explore how AI unifies marketing teams and integrates into cross-functional workflows and transforms businesses. https://t.co/LkMMYoNGpx https://t.co/QfHByZNXZs

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6 Feb 24

Generative #AI Trends for 2024 via @mitsmr podcast: Me, Myself and AI. Listen to it here: https://t.co/kFdqTNpRy9 https://t.co/hj2Jjq9c4o

Tom Davenport @tdav

16 Nov 23

AI Ethics at @Unilever: From Policy to Process via @mitsmr, by @tdav & @randybeannvp #aiethics #AI #data https://t.co/b8eyNHuWIP

Tom Davenport

Articles

A lovely Sunday morning today. I don’t know why. What did you do? - The Red Hand Files

AI-Driven Process Intelligence At Westpac

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #319 - Do you think it’s ok to be paid shit tons of money for your ability to make a dress? kick a ball about? Paint a picture? Make some music? More so than the multitude of ”services” that enable this to happen? I

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #317 - I was recently listening to Skeleton Tree and realised all these years I’d misheard one of your lyrics. I always heard…’but the echo comes back EMPTY.’ This line always struck a chord in my heart. I’d recently

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #316 - My best friend recently said something that felt really spiteful to me. It was so unnecessary and mean and I feel just so wounded. I am furious at my friend. How do I forgive her? What do I even do?

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #313 - They say you should separate the art from the artist. I can’t do that. My childhood heroes have become monsters. Now I read that the song “I Am A God” by Kanye West should be played at your funeral. How the he

Speeding Up Digital Acquisition Dramatically At The US Navy

Como a IA generativa entra na rotina da agroindústria

Generative AI Is Everywhere-Including At Birchwood Foods

The 6 Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI

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