25th
February
2009
Two articles from me that you might like to check out. First in Oracle’s Journal of Management Excellence 2009 February I have a Guest Commentary on The Overinstrumented Enterprise arguing that companies are investing too heavily in monitoring systems while under-investing in making those same systems manageable. This is similar to the argument I made [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
24th
January
2009
Jerry Cuomo has been talking about WebSphere in 2009 and he published his top 10 list on his blog WebSphere: Into the wild BLUE yonder!.
Business Mash-ups
Business Rules
Middleware-as-a-Service
Rainmaker
Extreme Scale
WAS.NEXT
Restful – Agile
DataPower-lution
POWERful Middleware
Industry-savvy Middleware
He expanded this list with some additional thoughts in an article on InfoQ. Serveral of these – business mash=ups, business rules, Middleware-as-a-Service and Agile [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management |
15th
October
2008
Today Chordiant announced their new Visual Business Director (CxVBD). I saw an early prototype of this some months back and got a more detailed look at the finished product at their recent Customer Advisory Board. I really like CxVBD as I think it shows the critical business value of externalizing decisions. I have yet to [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management, Product News, Strategy |
6th
October
2008
Last week I was invited to attend Chordiant’s European Customer Advisory Board. This session was held in lovely Munich in the middle of Oktoberfest and was both informative and a lot of fun. While I can’t share everything – some of it was for customers only – I thought you would appreciate what I could [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management, Product News |
17th
July
2008
Gary Cokins posted How are Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) and Performance Management Different? in response to my original post What’s the difference between EDM and Performance Management. Gary takes me to task for a narrow perspective on performance management and, to some extent, he is right. Too often what I see described as performance management [...]
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11th
July
2008
Naumi Haque wrote this nice piece on The future of consumer banking and it struck me how many of the things she suggests, with which I agree, require a broad-based adoption of EDM.
For instance she suggests a single financial cockpit – she calls it a dashboard but she wants to be able to do things [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
10th
July
2008
I really like getting and answering questions and a reader of the book asked me a good one today
What do you see as the difference between Enterprise Decision Management and Corporate Performance Management? I don’t see you really using them interchangeably, but I sense that you see them as more or less the same thing [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
30th
May
2008
When it’s a dashboard.
I often hear people talk about fighter pilots as a model for the future of business users. For instance, Ade McCormack did in his book on the IT value stack. Indeed this is such a good mental image that many companies use it – either to promote their products or to talk [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management, News |
21st
May
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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