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The Future of Business Technology Part 2 - Business Agility

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 1:39 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to BT (Business Technology) we're going to have more disasters like our present mortgage meltdown. Why? Because IT creates impenetrable systems that human beings can't manage. BT is about human beings back... Read More..
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The Future of Business Technology Part 1 - Business Control

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By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 8:14 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
David Chassells had an interesting article last week called BPM and SOA: Where IT Is Going if Real People Take It There In which he quotes George Colony (founder of Forrester Research):"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to... Read More..
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Customer Centricity Strategy #2 - Process Integration

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By James Taylor on November 5, 2008 8:32 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Continuing my responses to John Schmidt's post on Customer Centricity with a discussion of Process Integration. John describes this as focusing on cross-channel integration using Enterprise Service Bus/SOA technologies to bring data to the point of interaction. Decision management, of... Read More..
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Decisioning and the instantly responsive enterprise

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By James Taylor on October 23, 2008 5:19 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Dan Tortorici of Oracle had a nice article about the combination of business process management (BPM) and complex event processing (CEP) called Building The Instantly Responsive Enterprise. Like Dan I think that BPM and CEP both have a role to... Read More..
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Using decision management to simplify processes

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By James Taylor on October 21, 2008 11:10 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
My friends over on the Drools (open source rules) blog had a great post showing spaghetti BPEL today. While I don't think all such problems are because decisions are not being managed properly, clearly some are. Identifying, externalizing and then... Read More..
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Great reminder on why decisions matter to process design

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By James Taylor on September 24, 2008 8:27 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Paul Harmon wrote a piece for BP Trends called Business Process, BPMN and Business Rules that reiterated the power of business rules and decision management to simplify business processes. I presented on this to the Intalio conference (check out the... Read More..
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What's new in Application Development 2.0 - Declare

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By James Taylor on September 17, 2008 8:16 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Second change for Application Development 2.0 is declare don't code. The second change is to move away from coding things procedurally to declaring them. Declarative and model-based approaches create more independent artifacts, minimizing the impact of changes on the rest... Read More..
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What's new in Application Development 2.0 - Collaborate

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By James Taylor on September 16, 2008 8:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Some time ago I wrote a post on Application Development 2.0 three key changes seem to me to be involved:Collaborate don't competeDeclare don't codeIterate don't finishLet's take the first one today and work on the other two later in the... Read More..
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Still more on event processing

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By James Taylor on September 3, 2008 8:34 AM 3 0 Vote 0 Votes
There have been some great posts on event processing recently. Tim Bass started it off with CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA and got a ton of really interesting comments - well worth reading. Mark Palmer responded... Read More..
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A video on rules, decisions and processes

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By James Taylor on August 28, 2008 6:01 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Tom Debevoise has a nice little video he has made with some introductory comments on business rules, business processes and decisions. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qq07af6PY8. Like Tom I think that you can dramatically simplify business processes if... 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.

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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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