James Taylor's Decision Management

Ian pointed me to this today: Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Seven Trends for 2007. Doug, David and Penny from Intelligent Enterprise, with some help, came up with a nice list and it prompted me to cross-reference it with EDM:

• Capture Expertise Before Boomers Retire.
• Using business rules to capture this knowledge in a way that allows it to be automated is one of the primary drivers for business rules projects according to KPI's survey on this topic.
• Knowledge Management and Business Rules Management are not the same but they are related and can be complimentary
• Empowering business people to manage the rules in their systems also makes knowledge transfer and capture an ongoing process.
• Remember, as Thomas Huxley said, "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action"
• Designing for Agility: Business Analysts Step Up.
• The role of business rules in delivering agility is well documented, and mentioned in the article. Indeed there is a whole section on this blog on business agility.
• Similarly I believe there is a great future for business rules in great future and keeping control of outsourced processes.
• The role of analysts, and especially of "purple people" who cross-over between IT and the business is definitely a key consideration in agility
• I think business rules and business process management together deliver agility best as there are various kinds of agility.
• The problems inherent in how business and IT think differently have come up before and is one of my readiness criteria for decision management.
• Integration as Cure: the Future of Medical Records.
• While I think electronic medical records will help, I think the real issue is better medical decision-making and that means more than just records - you must eliminate errors too.
• Predictive analytics are a must and the power of automation to improve health should not be underestimated.
• Manufacturing's Job One: Improve Information Flow.
• Again I don't disagree but I think more automation that uses this information is what is called for.
• Parallel or Bust: Computing at a Crossroads
• I don't do hardware...
• Let's See Action: BI Adapts to Real Time.
• I have written about BI 2.0 and real-time BI before and think that, while it is useful, we need new approaches (like EDM) to bring analytic insight into our business processes and make intelligent processes
• The issue with real-time is the decision latency, not just the data latency - how fast can I ACT based on the new data, not how fast can I get it
• Build Up From SOA to Business Integration.
• I think EDM and SOA are highly complementary. Enough said.

Enjoy 2007, more predictions to come.

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