---
type: "synthesis"
sources: ["spine"]
tags: ["authorship", "entity-resolution", "davenport", "bridge"]
id: "cd-davenport-connective-tissue"
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-spine"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-seg-spine"
sourceUrl: "(unified vault: 9 sources)"
sourceTitle: "HBR — Strategic Spine — value thesis & how much to bet"
---
One author threads three of the nine articles, making him the corpus's connective tissue — and an entity-resolution caveat worth flagging.

Tom Davenport appears as an author on **A095** (the 6 Disciplines — [[framework-6-disciplines-gen-ai]]), **A061** (portfolio management — [[concept-dual-lens-portfolio]]), and **A020** (ambitious entrepreneurs — [[framework-entrepreneurial-ai-adoption]]). In the registry he is split across **two** entity notes: [[entity-tom-davenport]] (A061, A095) and [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]] (A020). These are the *same person*; a downstream agent should treat them as one and reconcile queries across both.

His intellectual signature unifies the pieces: measurement discipline (efficiency is table stakes, advantage comes from differentiated offerings) shows up in A095's [[concept-business-value-measurement]] and again in A047's echo of his 2018 'portfolios over moonshots' argument ([[contrarian-stop-moonshots]] in A061). His stage-gate lineage links A095's [[action-fund-innovation-stage-gates]] to A061's [[concept-stage-gates]]. And his human-augmentation lens links A095's [[claim-augmentation-over-replacement]] to A020's [[concept-human-ai-complementarity]] — see [[cd-augmentation-over-automation]]. Because he spans the *value-creation-disciplines* and *investment-portfolio* halves of the spine, his frameworks are the best single bridge across the corpus.