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Article on EDM in Teradata Magazine

May 22, 2008

Neil and I wrote a column introducing enterprise decision management (EDM) for Teradata Magazine recently and you can find it here.

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Automating Decisions within Business Processes

May 21, 2008

I can’t blog this session live as John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri have asked me to participate. What follows is a combination of thoughts based on the presentation and post-presentation notes.
The theme of the presentation is that “The next frontier in business process management (BPM) and business rules is automating decisions within business processes”. If [...]

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The Future of Application Development

May 21, 2008

I’m going to be on stage with Mike Gualtieri soon but I thought I would drop in and listen to him on the future of application development. Sadly this meant missing a session on BI but even I can’t be in two places at once. Mike’s theme is that the value of application developers in [...]

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Bringing IT from the Back Office to the Boardroom

May 21, 2008

Marta Foster from Proctor and Gamble gave this presentation. Marta has been at P&G for 30 years and is now in charge of their IT operations. P&G is well known and is the largest consumer products company in the world with over $80B in sales. They have 138,000 employees, 200 brands in 160 countries and [...]

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Dynamic Business Applications

May 21, 2008

Connie Moore and John Rymer kicked off today talking about Dynamic Business Applications and their first discussion was around brown paper bags. They made the point that brown paper bags are a pure commodity and all you can do is reduce costs. Other kinds of bags offer more opportunities for innovation and, thus, more margins. [...]

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James and Neil presenting at Intalio’s user conference

May 20, 2008

The folks at Intalio invited us to speak at their user conference June 17-18. We are presenting on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile on the first day. We would love to see you there so drop by and say hello if you are attending. Also we have a discount [...]

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Blogging Live from the Forrester IT Forum 2008

May 20, 2008

I am at the Forrester IT Forum and I will be blogging live from as many sessions as I can. I am participating in some (so the post may be delayed) and there is no power in the keynote room so I may be reduced to writing notes and typing it up later! There is [...]

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The Page 123 Linkfest

May 19, 2008

I discovered over the weekend that there is a game called “What’s On Page 123″ that involves bloggers tagging each other. As Ken Molay, an old friend who writes the Webinar blog tagged me I now have to post to keep it going. The deal is that you have to write about the book you [...]

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Tom Davenport writes about analytics in government

April 27, 2008

I was just pointed to an interesting report that Tom Davenport (author of Competing on Analytics) wrote on Strategic Use of Analytics in Government. The report is available on the businessofgovernment.org website. Tom and his co-author do a nice job of summarizing the various ways analytics can and should be used in government.
While there are [...]

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Social Media at InterACT 2008

April 25, 2008

Next week is InterACT and I will be blogging. You can also follow what I post, and what anyone else attending posts, at these locations:
Hastags – http://hashtags.org/tag/interact2008/
Eventtrack – http://eventtrack.info/index.php?t_event=interact2008

Both have instructions about how to add you own posts/twitter streams to the collective so if anyone attending is on twitter etc, let me know

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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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