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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Toronto)

May 9, 2012

[ May 15, 2012; 12:30 am; ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  This time it is in Toronto on May 15 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Decision Management, IBM IMPACT and becoming an IBM Champion

April 25, 2012

I have been going to IBM IMPACT for a couple of years now. This year’s event is just around the corner – it starts on Sunday – and I am particularly excited about this one. While it’s not the first at which I have spoken, nor the first where there have been sessions on Decision [...]

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Target variables matter but so do decisions

April 8, 2012

Dean Abbot wrote a great post recently “Why Defining the Target Variable in Predictive Analytics is Critical” in which he referenced the CRISP-DM approach to building predictive analytic models and talked about the importance of target variable selection in building an effective model. The thrust of Dean’s post was the crucial point that because
The target [...]

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Webinar: Predictive Analytics at the Speed of Business

April 4, 2012

[ May 3, 2012; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am giving a webinar with Dr Alex Guazelli of Zementis on Predictive Analytics at the Speed of Business: How decision management and a real-time infrastructure get predictive analytics where and when you need them.

Organizations are looking to maximize the value of their analytics investment. They need to accelerate the deployment process, reduce costs and get [...]

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Live Event: IBM IMPACT – Decision Management Trends

March 26, 2012

[ May 1, 2012; 10:45 am to 12:00 pm. ] Session 2750 at IBM’s IMPACT this year is titled “Decision Management Trends with Author and Thought Leader James Taylor”. I will be discussing Decision Management, how to build Decision Management Systems and more. UPDATE: I will be joined by a great panel of technical architects who will answer your questions on Decision Management:

AVP/Product Mgr & [...]

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Live Event: IBM IMPACT – Book Signing

March 26, 2012

[ May 1, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The folks at IBM Press have asked me to sign copies of “Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Business Rules and Predictive Analytics” at IBM’s IMPACT event this year. I will be at the bookstore from noon to 1pm on May 1. Bring a copy by to have it signed or buy one at [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Baltimore)

March 19, 2012

[ April 18, 2012; 5:30 am to 9:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The seventh is in Baltimore, MD on April 18 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Orlando)

March 19, 2012

[ April 17, 2012; 5:30 am to 9:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The sixth is in Orlando, FL on April 17 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More Agile [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Long Beach)

March 19, 2012

[ April 12, 2012; 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The fifth is in Long Beach, CA on April 12 and the main session starts at 8:30am PT. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (St Louis)

March 18, 2012

[ April 10, 2012; 5:30 am to 9:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.”  The fourth is in St Louis, MO on April 10 and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler and More [...]

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Now available – a new report on platform technologies for Decision Management Systems

February 22, 2012

Organizations are adopting a new class of operational systems called Decision Management Systems to meet the demands of consumers, regulators and markets because traditional systems are too inflexible, fail to learn and adapt and crucially cannot apply analytics to take advantage of “Big Data.” Decision Management Systems, as I described in my book, are agile, [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business (Denver)

February 2, 2012

[ March 22, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The third  is in Denver, CO on March 22nd and the main session starts at 8:30am MT. I will be [...]

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Start with decisions not with business rules

January 4, 2012

An interesting discussion started on twitter this week with @BigBlueMilky saying “Decision Management is so much more that just using business rules” – something I strongly agree with. @JeffreyGoodReq followed up by adding “But you must start with business rules” and, when I disagreed and said you must start with Decisions added “rules = context [...]

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Are your systems just interfaces to a data structure?

December 29, 2011

Tad Anderson just wrote a great review of Decision Management Systems, my new book, over on his blog on the SOA World Magazine site. Two of his comments struck me particularly. The first summarized what I consider to be the biggest limiting factor in information systems today:
There are not too many systems being created today [...]

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Interactive Chat: Decision Management Systems on AllAnalytics

November 8, 2011

[ November 9, 2011; 11:30 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am participating in an interactive chat on AllAnalytics on Wednesday November 9th at 11:30 am Pacific/2:30pm Eastern. Beth Schultz and I are going to chat about Decision Management Systems (both the book and the systems themselves), the role of analytics (especially predictive analytics) and more. Why not join us?

Go to allanalytics.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=243067 to participate (don’t [...]

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Begin with the Decision in Mind #BBCCon11

November 2, 2011

I had no slides for my session but I thought I would post my notes or outline:
I have just written a new book called Decision Management Systems about a class of system not widely deployed in organizations. They’re not new systems – I have been talking about them and helping people build them for the [...]

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Decision Management Orchestrating Consistent Enterprise-wide Decisions #iod11

October 25, 2011

Erick Brethenoux, Pierre-Henri Clouin and Asit Dan presented on IBM’s Decision Management approach – a nice chance to see both the Business Analytics and WebSphere bits of IBM talking about the same problem. CEOs consistently tell IBM that volatility, uncertainty and complexity are continuing issues. CIOs with a mandate to transform the business are responding [...]

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Decision Management Systems drive the second economy

October 20, 2011

Cross-posted from International Institute for Analytics
There was a great article recently in the McKinsey Quarterly – The Second Economy. In it W Brian Arthur discusses the fact that
Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.
It’s a good article and worth a read. Brian talks [...]

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Signing my new book at Information on Demand

October 11, 2011

[ October 25, 2011; 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
I am speaking at Information on Demand (on Decision Management Systems and on a panel) and will be taking time out to sign my new book – Decision Management Systems: A practical guide to using predictive analytics and business rules – on Tuesday October 25 from  12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. You’ll be able to [...]

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Ready to pre-order my new book? How about a 35% discount

September 21, 2011

Well my new book has shipped to the printers and it should be available in mid-October. The nice folks at IBM Press have set up a 35% discount code TAYLOR4389 and the book is ready for pre-order here on IBM Press. Just go to their site, order the book and enter the code. You can also [...]

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