James Taylor's Decision Management: July 2006 Archives

Intelligent, Analytic Processes

By James Taylor on July 26, 2006 3:47 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Elizabethpointed me at a recent IDC report ("Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares" by Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough). While this was mostly concerned with the big Business Intelligence vendors and their market share it had an interesting emerging... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Predictive Analytics

Building Flexibilty into Processes

By James Taylor on July 20, 2006 3:15 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I was referred to this nice article in SOA/Web Service Journal by some colleagues at Oracle - Building Flexible Business Processes Using BPEL and Rules. Mohamad Afshar and Bhagat Nainani do a great job of showing how, and why, you... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, SOA

The pace of change is increasing - it's official!

By James Taylor on July 20, 2006 1:38 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes

In An executive take on the top business trends: A McKinsey Global Survey the folks at McKinsey present some compelling evidence that the pace of change really is increasing like we (business rules people) say it is. Some key points: Vast... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Legacy Modernization, Predictive Analytics

Dinosaurs, consumers and decisioning

By James Taylor on July 19, 2006 9:54 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I saw this interesting post on CIO magazine this week - Are You a Dinosaur? Besides resonating with me (I have a teenager who never answers emails and always communicates by IM for instance), Abbie's article made me think about how... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Predictive Analytics

Icebergs and user requirements

By James Taylor on July 17, 2006 3:04 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Someone pointed me to this wonderful Joel on Software article - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed. I wanted to post about it mostly because it is VERY funny and well worth a read but partly because some of his points seemed... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Requirements

Achieving Agility - some notes after Gartner

By James Taylor on July 13, 2006 2:01 PM 0 4 Vote 0 Votes

I was checking out some great reports on agility written by a wide range of Gartner analysts back in April. Agility is a big topic both on this blog and on my other one. 5 of them, listed at the... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Technologies, SOA

BAM, Decision Services and Predictive Analytics.

By James Taylor on July 12, 2006 3:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Nice article on Business Activity Monitoring over at the Business Integration Journal. Mark (of Griffiths Waite) and Markus (of Oracle) summarize different levels of development towards a closed-loop solution, one in which experience with a process constantly improves the process.... Read More..

Categories: Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Predictive Analytics, SOA

Brainstorm, BPM, SOA and rules

By James Taylor on July 10, 2006 4:35 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I attended the Brainstorm BPM/SOA conference a couple of weeks ago and, as I was in the middle of my top 10 list, did not blog about it. Four presentations in particular struck me as interesting. The links below will... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Technologies

Top 10 reasons for not automating decisions #1

By James Taylor on July 7, 2006 11:06 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

and the number 1 reasons for not automating decisions... 1. You want my business users to do WHAT? Yes, pure fear is the number one reason. There are still a lot of IT departments who cannot accept the idea of... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Technologies

Top 10 reasons for not automating decisions - #2

By James Taylor on July 6, 2006 9:05 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

2. Business users wouldn't know what to do with decision automation if they had it "My business users don't want to get involved" "But I can't get users to tell me the rules now" "I don't want the users telling... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Technologies

Top 10 reasons for not automating decisions - #3

By James Taylor on July 5, 2006 2:58 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

3. It will take too long to get results This excuse gets trotted out for one of two reasons – either the organization feels it is just too busy to take on something new or someone has heard that the... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization

Top 10 reasons for not automating decisions - #4

By James Taylor on July 5, 2006 8:53 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

4. It will never work There is sometimes an almost irrational fear that this stuff does not work. Old school programmers who resist any technology that does not require JCL Organizations where it's "just not how we do things here"... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Predictive Analytics

Top 10 reasons for not automating decisions - #5

By James Taylor on July 3, 2006 12:38 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

5. I can't afford it Just like any new approach, decision automation software costs money, so does the training, so does the initial help you need. A sense that it cannot be afforded comes from either the team with the... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Technologies, Legacy Modernization, Predictive Analytics

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