Jeanne Harris

Jeanne Harris is an Executive Research Fellow and Senior Executive at the Accenture Institute for High Performance in Chicago. She leads the Institute’s global research agenda in the areas of information, technology, and analytics. 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 Press, 2007), which details how high performance businesses are building competitive strategies around data-driven insights. Harvard Business Review editors named Competing on Analytics one of the top breakthrough ideas of the 21st Century. Her latest book (with co-authors Tom Davenport and Bob Morison), Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results (Harvard Business Press, 2010), shows how organizations can create analytical capability that enables better decisions in every aspect of business. During more than thirty years at Accenture, Harris has consulted a wide variety of organizations in many industries worldwide. She previously led Accenture’s business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge management, and data warehousing consulting practices. Harris has worked extensively with clients seeking to improve their managerial information, decision-making, analytical and knowledge management capabilities.