User:Thomas Botelhos
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I hold the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College where I teach MBAs and executives about decision-making and analytics.
I'm also a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.
My most recent book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results is now available.
Here's a list of all my published books.
In 2003 I was named one of the Top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting magazine. In 2007 and 2008 I was named one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis magazines.
I'm available for speaking engagements and consulting.
I directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, CSC Index, and Accenture.
I've written, co-authored or edited thirteen books, including the first books on analytivcal competition, business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems.
I've also written hundreds of articles and columns for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, CIO and many others.
Professional Experience
1999 - present Babson College (Wellesley, MA) President’s Distinguished Professor of Management and Information Technology
2000 Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) Visiting Professor
1998 - 2003 Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change (Cambridge, MA) Partner and Director
1998 - 2000 Boston University School of Management (Boston, MA) Professor, Management Information Systems Department
1994 - 1998 The University of Texas (Austin, TX) Professor, Management Science and Information Systems, and Director, Information Management Program, College and Graduate School of Business. Co-Director, Center for Customer Insights. Curtis Mathes Fellowship.
1990 - 1994 Ernst and Young (Boston, MA) Partner and Director of Research, Center for Business Innovation.
1992 - 1994 Boston University (Boston, MA) Adjunct Professor, Management Information Systems Department, Graduate School of Management. denver corporate housing
1989 - 1990 McKinsey and Company (New York, NY) Director of IT Research and consultant.
1988 - 1989 Harvard Business School (Boston, MA) Senior Research Associate.
1983 - 1988 CSC Index (Cambridge, MA) Principal and Director of Research.
1981 - 1983 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Lecturer, Department of Sociology
1980 -1981 University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Department. Senior Study Director, National Opinion Research Center.
Education
1982 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Business Program for Ph.D.'s.
1980 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Ph.D. in Sociology
1979 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) M.A. in Sociology
1976 Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) B.A. in Sociology, Magna Cum Laude.
Honors and Awards
1976 Phi Beta Kappa, Blue Key, Trinity University.
1976 Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation.
1980 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health.
1990 Richard Beckhard Award (with James Short) for best article on organizational change, Sloan Management Review.
1992 Virtuous Pagans, my Ph.D. dissertation, selected as one of “Outstanding Harvard Dissertations” and published by Garland Publishing.
1993 Process Innovation voted one of 10 best business books of 1993, Library Journal.
1993 Winner of Ernst & Young’s first “Value Creation Award” for work on reengineering.
1993 Commencement address, Boston University M.S. in Management Information Systems
1994 Judge, CIO 100 (best 100 firms in IT management)
1995 Judge, Arthur D. Little Process Management Award.
1995 Invited to give “State of the Art” video presentation for Australian Association for Computing Machinery
1996 Board of Judges, McKinsey Prize (best article), Harvard Business Review.
2000 Named one of 10 “Masters of the New Economy” by CIO magazine.
2001 Named one of 25 “E-Business Gurus” by Darwin magazine.
2001 Attention Economy named one of 30 best business books of the year.
2001 Invited to attend Fortune Magazine’s “Brainstorm 2001: The Smartest People We Know” conference in Aspen
Public and University Service
• Between 1990 and 1998, presentations or pro bono consulting to the Texas Department of Insurance, Austin Special Libraries Association, IC2 Institute, MIT Enterprise Forum, Greenville, S.C. Children’s Hospital, Urban Land Institute, Internal Revenue Service, Educational Testing Service, General Accounting Office, Internal Revenue Service, Austin City Manager’s Office, UT Chicago and Oklahoma City Business School Alumni Clubs, Austin Reengineering Special Interest Group, Harvard Business School Austin Alumni Club, Business School Dean’s Associates, Graduate Consulting Club, IBM Latin America, EDS, Amoco, Compaq, Deloitte and Touche, Federal Express, Insource Management Group, VTEL Corporation, Trilogy Development Corp., Sheshunoff Management Services, Ernst & Young, Intel, Hewlett Packard, HEB, Frito-Lay, Convex, and J.C. Penney.
• Advisor to Vice-President Gore’s “National Performance Review.”
• Executive Council on Information Management, US General Accounting Office
Other Professional Activities
• Board of Directors, Inference Corporation, Novato, CA., 1996-1998
• Board of Directors, American Productivity and Quality Center.
• Editor at Large, Knowledge Inc., a newsletter on knowledge management.
• Board of Advisors, Concours Group, Inc.
• Board of Advisors, Journee Software, Inc.
• Board of Advisors, Ventix, Inc.
• Member, SAP Innovation Council, 2000-present
• Trustee, Marketing Science Institute
• Board of Sponsors, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
• Fellow, University of Texas Center for Customer Insight
