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source_title: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
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# Tom Davenport

> **Type:** Person · **Role in source:** Co-author.

Tom Davenport is one of the four co-authors of the article. He is the **President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College** and a research fellow at the **MIT Center for Digital Business**, and a leading scholar on analytics and AI.

He is noted for having argued in a **2018 HBR article** that companies should create portfolios of AI projects based on business needs rather than 'rolling the dice on moonshots' — the intellectual lineage of [[contrarian-stop-moonshots]] and the [[concept-dual-lens-portfolio]] thesis.

**Contributions to this vault (co-authored):** [[quote-drain-on-resources]] · [[quote-learning-journeys]] · [[quote-bridge-gap]] · and the article's central [[framework-four-portfolio-stages]] and [[framework-three-portfolio-mechanisms]].

## Article 95 — a095

# Tom Davenport

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article and one of the two authorial voices behind the entire vault.

**Profile:** President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College; research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business; co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics; and Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. Author of *Big Data at Work* and *Competing on Analytics* — a leading authority on analytics and AI in business.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-author of both frameworks: [[framework-6-disciplines-gen-ai]] and [[framework-gen-ai-project-selection]].
- Co-source of every claim tagged to the authors, including [[claim-individual-productivity-roi]] and [[claim-augmentation-over-replacement]].
- His prior analytics scholarship ("Competing on Analytics") directly informs [[concept-business-value-measurement]] — that simple efficiency gains are table stakes and durable advantage comes from differentiated offerings.
- Co-author of the source quotes, e.g. [[quote-hallucinations-bad-predictions]] and [[quote-minor-tinkering]].

Canonical reference (per enrichment): Babson College faculty profile. Co-author: [[entity-john-j-sviokla]].