November 2006 Archives

Are you ready for decision management? Part 4

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By James Taylor on November 30, 2006 10:26 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
How do you tell if your organization is ready for decision management? If not, what can you do to start laying the groundwork? Fourth, Organizational Change Automation of operational decisions can cause a fair degree of organizational change. Some roles... Read More..
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Are you ready for decision management? Part 3

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By James Taylor on November 29, 2006 11:16 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
How do you tell if your organization is ready for decision management? If not, what can you do to start laying the groundwork? Third, Analytic understanding A third area of readiness is going to be in terms of analytic understanding... Read More..
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Are you ready for decision management? Part 2

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By James Taylor on November 28, 2006 3:51 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
How do you tell if your organization is ready for decision management? If not, what can you do to start laying the groundwork? Second, Data readiness In order to derive insight from data you must first have data available. The... Read More..
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Are you ready for decision management? Part 1

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By James Taylor on November 28, 2006 9:24 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
How do you tell if your organization is ready for decision management? If not, what can you do to start laying the groundwork? While there are many characteristics of an organization that might identify it as a good, or a... Read More..
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Boomers, staying healthy at home and decision automation

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By James Taylor on November 22, 2006 11:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this article on how technology might allow Boomers to stay at home and stay healthy. Boomers Who Can Afford Home Monitoring Systems May Remain at Home Longer — In the future, sensor technology could provide limitless opportunities for... Read More..
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Sustainable business rules

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By James Taylor on November 20, 2006 10:46 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw a great article today over on the BPM Institute on Sustainable Business Rules. Ladd does a nice job discussing some of the main issues here. There's some good stuff in the article and if this is an area... Read More..
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Let them eat cake (write code)

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By James Taylor on November 17, 2006 11:48 AM 3 0 Vote 0 Votes
In a recent post Sandy K. said: "I believe that the new world of enterprise software is less customization and more customizability: give the users the raw product and let them do what they need with it" Now I like... Read More..
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Nice blog post comparing SOA and EDA

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By James Taylor on November 16, 2006 9:44 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Jack van Hoof wrote a great post over on his blog about "How EDA extends SOA and why it is important". Jack does a nice job of explaining how the approaches differ and how they complement each other, primarily around... Read More..
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Build, buy and decision automation

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By James Taylor on November 13, 2006 1:28 PM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this Build v Buy Workbook over on IT Toolbox (written by Craig Borysowich). I liked the basic approach here although I do think that a Service Oriented Approach allows for build v buy or both and that the... Read More..
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Live from webMethods (almost) - Automating high-volume decisions in an SOA

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 5:34 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I have been attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging from the sessions. I presented today on "Automating High-Volume Business Decisions within an SOA". I was, as usual, superb and here are the slides I used. and here are... Read More..
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Dynamic applications, built with change in mind

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 11:51 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
When I was at the webMethods conference recently I heard Connie Moore of Forrester use a great phrase "designing with change in mind". This made me wonder if I could write a short list of characteristics of a dynamic or... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - SOA a necessity for BPM

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 5:50 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Day 2 continued with Connie Moore of Forrester presenting on SOA. A Necessity for BPM. Connie started by discussing the move from functions to a process... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Customer innovation awards

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 4:33 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Day 2 had the customer innovation awards. These will be listed on the webMethods site I am sure (with videos) and were fascinating. The first one... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - SOA for self-optimizing enterprises

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 3:47 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Day 2 continued with Doug Saucier of Tata talking about SOA for self-optimizing enterprises. Doug feels that SOA is a disruptive technology because it enables change.... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - The future of Enterprise Software. Will it be SOA vs Packaged Apps?

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 1:13 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Day 2 moved on with Bruce Richardson of AMR talking about the future of Enterprise Software. Will it be SOA vs Packaged Applications? Bruce thinks that... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Loosely coupled business architecture

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By James Taylor on November 8, 2006 12:39 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Day 2 began with a keynote from John Hagel (who has a fun blog here) on "Loosely Coupled Business Architecture" John had no slides (delightful) and... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Innovation Driving Success – Albert Heijn Case Study

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By James Taylor on November 7, 2006 4:11 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Next up was Peter Van Kralingen of Ahold, a webMethods customer and a large Dutch retailer. First a video case study. Ahold has developed a totally... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Driving Business Transformation Through Process Improvement

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By James Taylor on November 7, 2006 3:38 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week (ebizQ is a media sponsor) and blogging live from the sessions. First up, after some great political speak from James Carville and Mary Matalin, was David Mitchell (CEO of webMethods). The session... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Fabric 7 - The New Face of BPM

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By James Taylor on November 7, 2006 2:57 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week (ebizQ is a media sponsor) and blogging live from the sessions. Next up for me was Susan Ganeshan of webMethods talking about the Business Process Management capabilities of Fabric 7. Processes have... Read More..
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Live from webMethods - Introducing webMethods Fabric 7 and What's Next for webMethods

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By James Taylor on November 7, 2006 1:35 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am attending webMethods Integration World this week and blogging live from the sessions. Next up was Kristin Muhlner (EVP Product Development at webMethods). Kristin is the last session before the break (when hopefully I will find a network connection... Read More..
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Focus on those diamonds not on those boxes

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By James Taylor on November 2, 2006 2:19 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Think about your processes. Think about your process diagrams. Everyone has done a ton of work eliminating boxes (process steps) and trying to speed up and improve how those boxes get executed. Great. What about those diamonds? How much work... Read More..
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James is one the leading experts in enterprise decision management, a published author and a principal of Smart (enough) Systems LLC. His blog discusses the use of decision management technologies like predictive analytics and business rules to deliver agility, improve business processes and bring intelligent automation to SOA.

James Taylor

James Taylor blogs on decision technologies for ebizQ, and is also a consultant on business analytics, decision management, rules, and process management. He works with clients to identify and bring to market advanced decision management solutions that will better solve their business needs. Taylor is widely considered a leading expert and visionary in enterprise decision management, and has recently authored a book, available here. For more information please contact Mr. Taylor at james@smartenoughsystems.com.


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