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Business Process Management Presentation

By James Taylor on June 24, 2009 12:30 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I am speaking on Making Processes Simpler, Smarter and More Agile with Decision Management at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco next week. If you are a member you can check out the presentation or, better yet, register to attend... Read More..

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Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

By James Taylor on June 11, 2009 4:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The International Business Rules Forum™ is the premier Conference dedicated to Business Rules, where the future of Business Rules, Decisioning, Compliance & Enterprise Design is taking shape! This year's event covers Business Rules, Decision Management, Business Process, Governance and Compliance.... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Compliance, Decision Management, Event Processing, Predictive Analytics

Lesson from GM: Decisions > Processes

By James Taylor on June 2, 2009 3:08 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Gary Comerford posted about Bex Huff's identification of How one bad business process doomed GM. Like Gary I appreciated the analysis. However, the title is all wrong. This is not about a business process - I am prepared to bet... Read More..

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Interesing debate on business process and decisions

By James Taylor on April 16, 2009 9:09 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I have posted a couple of times recently on the interaction of decisions and processes - Another way decision management and process interact, More on keeping decisions and processes separate and Here's how decision management simplifies process management. This last... Read More..

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More on keeping decisions and processes separate

By James Taylor on April 9, 2009 8:15 PM 4 Vote 0 Votes

Neeli Basanth posted this in response to my post Here's how decision management simplifies process management and asked an interesting question: No doubt the diagram on the right looks much simpler and purely shows the flow. Although it no longer... Read More..

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Here's how decision management simplifies process management

By James Taylor on March 31, 2009 10:00 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Checking out some articles on the Business Rules Community I saw a great illustration of making processes simpler and more agile with decision management. In How Business Rules Define Business Processes (free registration required), Jan Vanthienen and Stijn Goedertier give... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management

Another way decision management and process interact

By James Taylor on March 18, 2009 8:36 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jim Sinur, over on the Gartner blog, has a post this week on Rule Guided Processes are the Way of the Future in which he saysThere are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management

Business Rules to Programmers: Methink thou doest protest too much II

By James Taylor on February 25, 2009 8:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Continuing my response to - Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To it's time to take some of the arguments Alex makes and show why I think his arguments should lead one to adopt a business rules approach. Despite... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules

Process Rules - What about decisions?

By James Taylor on February 13, 2009 6:53 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

John Reynolds had an interesting post over on the Thoughtful Programmer Process Rules - Why BPMN isn't enough. While I agree that there are challenges managing business rules in most BPM standards today, I felt his list left something to... Read More..

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Adding more intelligence to business process

By James Taylor on January 29, 2009 5:53 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jim Sinur posted BPM Needs to Add More Intelligence to Decisions Surrounding Processes and said:Going forward, I see a need for more sophisticated decisions that will require a deeper integration of rules, analytics, and complex events.If you read my blogs,... Read More..

Categories: Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

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