Jeanne Harris is Executive Research Fellow and a Senior Executive at the Accenture Institute for High Performance in Chicago. Jeanne leads the Institute's global research agenda in the areas of information, technology, analytics and talent.In 2009, Jeanne received Consulting Magazine's Women Leaders in Consulting award for Lifetime Achievement.She is the co-author of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which explains how high performance businesses are building competitive strategies around data-driven insights that are generating impressive business results. CIO Insight magazine included the best-selling Competing on Analytics (translated into 13 languages) on their list of "the most provocative, engaging business books of all-time." Her new book (with co-authors Tom Davenport and Bob Morison) has just been released by Harvard Business Press. "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results" shows how organizations can create 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 has consulted to 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. 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 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, Gartner, and major software vendors.