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New Expert Channel on B-Eye Network

April 22, 2008

Well there’s now another place to find our materials – I have opened for business as an expert on the B-Eye Network. Check out my channel Competing on Decisions (thanks to Neil for suggesting the name). This blog will be syndicated there but I will also be writing articles, posting white papers and generally making [...]

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Two Great Decision Management Conferences this year

April 17, 2008

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend – apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

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2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook – 30% Discount

April 16, 2008

Neil and I recently contributed a chapter to the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook and they just sent out a pre-release discount:
Human-centric business process management (BPM) has become the product and service differentiator. The topic now captures substantial mindshare and market share in the human-centric BPM space as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric business [...]

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Howard Dresner recommends the book

April 10, 2008

Howard Dresner, now independent but previously of Gartner and Hyperion and one of the leading voices in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management space listed Some good sources and included our book and our blogs (this one and Neil’s on Intelligent Enterprise). Thanks Howard.

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Interesting teleseminar tomorrow on why to write a book

April 9, 2008

My old friend Mitchell Levy is giving a teleseminar tomorrow about how and why to write a business book,   what you can do to get your published book in 3-4 months and be remarkably successful. Here’s the pitch:
If there is one thing that’s more important than any other in terms of building credibility that [...]

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Call for presentations – the new EDM Summit

March 11, 2008

How are you integrating business rules and analytics?
How are you adding intelligence to your business processes?
How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems?
How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know.

We invite you to present [...]

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Q&A with James Taylor on Managing Decisions as a Corporate Asset

February 29, 2008

The current issue of BPM Strategies magazine has a Q&A on decision management – check out the online version of the magazine (members of the BPM Institute only).

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Practical SOA with ZapThink

February 29, 2008

ZapThink has been putting on a series of events all over the world called Practical SOA. One of my readers suggested I blog about it as she thought ZapThink did a great job so I caught up with Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink. 
James: Ron can you give us a quick overview of ZapThink and [...]

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Podcast featuring James, Neil and Smart (enough) Systems

February 28, 2008

CS TechCast is a podcast series released every Monday hosted by Eric Johnson, Eric Beehler, and Josh Jones. Each week they discuss the latest Information Technology trends and news, and bring you interviews with key members of the IT Community. This week they included a nice little interview with me and Neil about Smart (enough) [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Scott Klososky Keynote: Do You Have Velocity Leadership?

February 25, 2008

Next up was Scott Klososky on Do You Have Velocity Leadership? Scott talks to organizations about how technology impacts different businesses and has a book coming out soon (though I could not find a link for it). He uses a quote to show his attitude to technology:
A rock pile ceases to be a [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Pierre Haren Keynote

February 25, 2008

Monday morning here at DIALOG and the keynotes are up next. The show has about 300 attendees, about half customers, representing about 18 countries. First on is Pierre Haren, Chairman and CEO of ILOG. Pierre gave a quick overview of 20 years of ILOG history and he then focused on ILOG’s mission:
Make better decisions faster [...]

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Live from DIALOG – Best Practices in Rule Governance

February 24, 2008

Well here I am at DIALOG 08, ILOG’s user group. The show passes the “Kemsley” test because there is wireless Internet access throughout the event, enabling me to blog live. First session was from Pierre Berlandier of ILOG talking about business rules governance. The session was packed – despite the option of playing golf instead [...]

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Blogging live from DIALOG 08

February 24, 2008

I am going to be at DIALOG 08, ILOG’s user group for the next few days and blogging live. You can get information on the event here and read the DIABLOG here.
Next in series

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A chance to get the book (and see me) at ILOG’s Dialog 08

January 28, 2008

Next month (February 24th – 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference:

I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up if [...]

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Speaking at the DAMA Conference in San Diego

January 7, 2008

Neil and I are both speaking at the DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference March 16-20, 2008 in San Diego. Our sessions are both on Tuesday March 18th:

James – Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems
Neil – Tainted Truth: Understanding Industry Surveys

There’s a discount price until Feb 8th. We would love to see you [...]

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Top 20 posts on Intelligent Enterprise

December 19, 2007

Doug Henschen just posted Intelligent Enterprise Top-20 Stories of 2007 and Neil’s article Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable came in at number 3! The best I could do was get mentioned (along with Neil, again) in #16 The Rule Maturity Model: Five Steps to an Agile Enterprise. Still, not bad…

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Off topic tech bubble humor

December 4, 2007

My partner showed me this video and I just had to share – it’s too funny, especially if (like me) you live in Palo Alto and were working at a web startup the first time through…
Here’s the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I and here’s the singers’ own site – www.richterscales.com/

UPDATE: You may find that YouTube has taken this [...]

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When is Application Development not Application Development anymore?

November 27, 2007

An interesting post caught my eye recently – Should we still call it Application Development? This seems like an interesting question, particularly when you start considering the decomposition of the application that has taken place over the last decade. Not so long ago, applications (especially enterprise applications) were monolithic. They handled their own data, user [...]

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Book discounted on amazon.com

November 19, 2007

I just noticed that amazon.com is discounting the book so, if you (or your friends) don’t own a copy, now would be a great time to buy one. You can buy it here for just $41.00!

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From business rules to enterprise decisioning (again)

November 14, 2007

Ron Ross recently gave his keynote from the Business Rules Forum as a webinar. You can access the recording (free registration required) here. It’s a great overview and well worth your time.

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