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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..

Categories: Business Process Management, Decision Management

Business rules for more effective development

By James Taylor on June 16, 2009 8:48 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Noam Tamarkin had a post recently on Efficient or Effective in software development in which he asked an important question - would you rather be more efficient or more effective when it came to developing software. Most would, like Noam,... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Management

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

Here's how to prevent mistakes in analytic projects with decision management

By James Taylor on June 4, 2009 5:04 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Robert Grossman had a nice post - Five Common Mistakes in Analytic Projects that made me think about the role of decision management in putting predictive analytics to work. Of Robert's 5 mistakes, 3 are directly addressed by decision management:There... Read More..

Categories: Decision Management, 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..

Categories: Business Process Management, Decision Management

Nice report on the value of end-user developers

By James Taylor on May 28, 2009 9:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research recently wrote a nice piece called Deputize End-User Developers To Deliver Business Agility And Reduce Costs. The report is available from Forrester (for subscribers and for those who purchase it) but the summary is on... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management

Free webinar on bringing agility to mainframe systems

By James Taylor on May 28, 2009 8:47 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

I am presenting, with Claye Greene of technologyblue, on the path to business agility and lower costs: Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management. The webinar is on June 2nd at 7:30am Pacific time (scheduled specifically for folks in Pittsburgh and vicinity)... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Decision Management, Legacy Modernization

Using business rules to add decision transparency

By James Taylor on May 26, 2009 8:31 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Jim Sinur had a short post on The Power of Visibility with BPM Enabled Processes that made me think about another kind of visibility - visibility of decisions. One of the most powerful benefits of adopting business rules to manage... Read More..

Categories: Business Rules, Compliance, Decision Management

Beyond Predictive BI

By James Taylor on May 14, 2009 8:43 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

David Linthicum's recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going "beyond BI" with decision management.... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

Almost intellectual systems

By James Taylor on April 30, 2009 7:46 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Well it finally happened - Neil and I became internationally published authors! Check out this link: Почти интеллектуальные системы. Как получить конкурентные преимущества путем автоматизации принятия скрытых решений and what you see is a Russian version of Smart (Enough) Systems,... Read More..

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