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Analytic Journeys #pawcon

February 19, 2010

Here’s my presentation from Predictive Analytics World, reproduced with permission from Predictive Analytics World and Rising Media.Analytic Journeys from Predictive Analytics World

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Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?

February 4, 2010

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Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on  Apps Modernization – What are Your Top Priorities in 2010/11? that reminded me I wanted to write about modernization a little before the year got too far advanced. As Phil says the coming years are going to be really interesting:
Leading edge technologies will become [...]

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A predictive enterprise

December 18, 2009

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I was reading an old SPSS presentation the other day and found a great definition of a Predictive Enterprise:
A predictive enterprise:

Derives maximum value from its data assets
Understands its business by gaining deep insight
Leverages advanced analytics to predict outcomes
Turns this knowledge into action to optimize decision making across all areas of its operations

I [...]

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Some new white papers

December 10, 2009

I have added a couple of new white papers to my company site – check out the decisioning white papers page where you can register and download them.
The first is called “Smarter Systems for An Uncertain World” and is similar in concept to the keynote I gave at the Business Rules Forum: In an increasingly [...]

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Webinar: Capture your complex business rules by asking pragmatic questions

October 23, 2009

[ November 17, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The sixth webinar in the series. Decisioning rules can come by the hundreds or thousands.  These rules often involve large number of criteria. How do you capture that many business rules with so many variations without going crazy?  This presentation outlines a pragmatic approach based on developing business questions to create complex decision tables.  These [...]

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SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009 and my first session is an executive Q&A. First up was some discussion of the day’s announcements:

Extension of engagement with HP, integrated Neoview with Business Warehouse so customers can combine Business Objects and Neoview. as well as extending the services relationship (obviously important given HP’s acquisition of EDS).
SAP EcoHub [...]

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Some thoughts on rules, decisions, agility and more

October 9, 2009

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I got an interesting comment on my recent post about the top 4 concerns of CIOs.
Joanne makes a number of points in her comment that I thought should be addressed:
a business rules engine is not nearly enough. What is needed instead is a means to model manage and measure the impact of a [...]

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Bare essentials of making rules work

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur and Dave McCoy of Gartner hosted a quick session on making rules work at the Gartner BPM show. With only 30 minutes this was quick and dirty and the audience was overwhelmingly people completely new to business rules (though not to BPM). Dave outlined his 5 pieces of advice:

Ignore standards
While it would be [...]

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BPM Optimization and Simulation

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur is up next on optimization and simulation. The world is changing fast so he sees the use of optimization and simulation becoming broader than its traditional role of improving existing process. Optimization and simulation allows:

Try new processes in a safe environment
Give business people power to try changes before they go live
Help in scenario [...]

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Decision management and the top 4 concerns of CIOs

September 29, 2009

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I was reading an article on The top 10 CIO concerns and I was struck by the first four:

Business productivity and cost reduction
IT and business alignment
Business agility and speed to market
Business process re-engineering

It seemed to me, reading this list, that all four of these were concerns that could be addressed [...]

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A reader asks about decision services with multiple answers

September 28, 2009

One of the questions I get regularly can be summarized like this: I see how a decision service works when it returns an answer but can it return multiple answers? As one reader put it:
Suppose we want to go from India to the USA. There are number of alternatives and many flights that are available. [...]

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Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning

September 18, 2009

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Inspired by this post by Vijay on Art of Software Reuse (Risks With Pursuing BPM Without SOA) I thought I would write something about the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning – without decision management.
When BPM is pursued without pursing decision management in parallel the direct consequence is that decisions become an afterthought [...]

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Looking at code from both sides with business rules

September 18, 2009

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Sharon Machlis had a great piece over on Computerworld titled Opinion: I’ve looked at code from both sides now on her experience of being a developer on a project where she was usually a user. It’s an interesting experience that she describes and I was struck particularly by a couple of comments. First, [...]

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Getting to Enterprise Application 2.0

August 26, 2009

On Monday I posted about Enterprise Application 2.0 and promised to return with some thoughts on how to get from Enterprise Application 1.0 to Enterprise Application 2.0. Let’s see:

Expose core elements as services
Identify and manage processes – hook up legacy and new services into new, more effective workflows
Find and automate decisions using business rules
Manage simple [...]

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Getting business and IT alignment with business rules

July 22, 2009

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Michael Cote of Redmonk had a nice piece on over on his People over Process blog. He made a series of great points about the risk of business and IT people not being aligned – risks to the business and to IT. In particular I was struck by this comment:
What happens here [...]

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How many degrees of separation are there between your developers and users?

July 15, 2009

James Governor of Redmonk shared a great tweet today (he is @monkchips)
@dhague: 6 degrees of separation between developers and end-users is 3 too many. It’s hard to keep users happy with that disconnect
Now here’s one way to think about the degrees of separation between your users and your developers:

Users tell an analyst what they want
The [...]

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Using business rules to add decision transparency

May 27, 2009

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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 decisions is that the approach generates increased visibility into the decision making process [...]

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Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

May 21, 2009

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Kirk Knoernschild had a great post on Application Platform Strategies Blog: Increasing Your Agility. I often blog about the power of business rules to improve agility (check out Decision Services and designing for change,Decision Management and software development – Agile and Achieving Agility – some notes after Gartner for instance) and I was [...]

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Going Beyond Budgeting!

May 18, 2009

I spoke last week at a conference hosted by the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable. I spoke, as you might expect, on the topic of decision management and how it can deliver the kinds of systems a modern company needs. The conference overall was on the (frankly very appealing) idea that budgets can and should be replaced [...]

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Empowering Business Users To Embrace Change

May 5, 2009

Connie Moore of Forrester presented on empowering business users to embrace change and began with a great quote from a customer – “Change NEVER settles down”! You need to embrace change and accept it as a norm – to accept that business processes and dynamic business processes. In this environment, business people play an essential [...]

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