James Taylor's Decision Management

James Taylor

Personalization, targeting, segmentation, customer states

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I see lots of phrases used for ways to better treat customers - some talk of personalization, some of targeting. Some discuss segmentation of customers and others the definition of customer states. This last one came from a Seth Godin post (States rights) that I saw today. The upshot of ALL of these terms is that you are being encouraged not to treat your customers the same but to treat them uniquely to make them feel special, to make them more likely to spend more money, to make them more likely to remain/become a loyal customer. I have blogged before about personalization and this clearly should apply to your website for, as I said in a response to a Seth Godin post once before, your home page is a decision. I like to call this kind of personalization "extreme personalization" - see the presentation I gave on this topic once before:

 This kind of personalization takes several things:

  • Data about your customers and their past behavior
  • Analysis of this data to segment your customers into meaningful groups or segments
  • An ability to turn this analysis into executable rules so that a new or existing customer can be quickly put into the right segment
  • Decision services running as part of your application architecture so that the results can be effectively deployed
  • Adaptive control so you can keep track of what is going on, try out new approaches, and keep improving.

Enterprise decision management, in other words.

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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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