August 2007 Archives

Habits of effective developers

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By James Taylor on August 30, 2007 3:26 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I saw this post by Eileen Yu over on ZDNet Asia - Seven habits of effective developers - in which she discusses an interview with Lee Chuk Munn, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems Asia-Pacific. I liked the list overall but a... Read More..
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Smart (Enough) Systems and ebizQ

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By James Taylor on August 27, 2007 1:22 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Well I'm back and this week the main ebizQ site published an excerpt from the book I just wrote with Neil Raden, Smart (Enough) Systems. The excerpt is from Chapter 10, EDM and the IT Department - Book Excerpt: Smart... Read More..
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Summer time, and the blogging is... non-existent

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By James Taylor on August 20, 2007 9:00 AM Vote 0 Votes
Well it's August and I am on vacation this week. I was also gone some days last week, hence the rather thin pickings! Look for more activity when I get back.... Read More..
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Decision Technologies - beyond hype

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By James Taylor on August 17, 2007 3:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I was perusing some Gartner Group "Hype Cycles" this week and noticed that the core technologies for decision management are climbing the slope to the plateau of productivity: Data Mining Workbenches, suitable for analytically deriving rules or building predictive models,... Read More..
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Process Management, Performance Management, Decision Management

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By James Taylor on August 8, 2007 9:34 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Mike Ferguson wrote an interesting piece today on A Business Process and Performance Management Framework for the Intelligent Business over on the B-Eye network. He talks about the need to have a more coherent performance management stack to bring balanced scorecard... Read More..
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Customer retention and decision services

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By James Taylor on August 7, 2007 11:40 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Nancy Williams had a nice little article - New Angle on Customer Retention over on the B-eye network. Nancy makes a great point about the value of time series data in managing customer retention. I would go further, though, and say... Read More..
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Boomers are retiring and not just in IT

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By James Taylor on August 3, 2007 11:16 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Deborah Perelman wrote this nice little piece over on CIO Insights today - 7 Ways to Protect Legacy Systems When Boomers Retire. The article's focus was on the boomers who work in IT retiring but that's not your only problem. IT... Read More..
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Building an SOA? What's Your Decision Strategy?

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By James Taylor on August 2, 2007 3:16 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
David Kelly wrote a nice little article today - Building an SOA? What's Your Data Strategy? in which he makes some good points about the importance of data in SOA. I particularly liked a couple of his points, although I might take... Read More..
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SaaS, BI and decision management

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By James Taylor on August 1, 2007 3:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I had an interesting call with Aaron from SeaTab last week. SeaTab is a SaaS BI vendor focused on retail, CBG and supply chain. Aaron was briefing folks as SeaTab had a new release out - we did not get... Read More..
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