customer service

Decision Management boosts AP performance

April 3, 2012

There was an interesting little article on the Institute of Financial Operations site last week – In relentless pursuit of productivity: Index tracks traits of best-in-breed AP operations. This reported on some results from the Accounts Payable Productivity Index study. What struck me about this was the role of automated decision-making (using business rules) among [...]

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Live Event: Improving customer service with BPM and decision management (New York)

February 8, 2012

[ March 21, 2012; 6:00 am to 7:00 am. ] I have been speaking at a series of IBM events last fall and this spring focused on “Improving customer service with BPM and decision management“. The third is in New York, NY on March 21st and the main session starts at 9am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management [...]

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New White Paper: Managing the Next Best Activity Decision

January 20, 2012

I have recently finished a new white paper on Managing the Next Best Activity Decision, sponsored by KXEN.
Every interaction with your customers is an opportunity to build your relationship. It could be a personalized marketing offer or proactive customer service. To make sure this interaction maximizes the value of your customer relationship, many organizations are developing [...]

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Webinar: Managing the Next Best Activity Decision with Predictive Analytics

December 21, 2011

[ January 24, 2012; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am giving a webinar with KXEN on January 24th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on Next Best Activity decisions
Every interaction with your customers is an opportunity to build your relationship. It could be a personalized marketing offer or proactive customer service. To make sure this interaction maximizes the value of your customer relationship, many organizations [...]

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Eliminating bias and valuing customers with Decision Management Systems

November 14, 2011

Meri Gruber, VP Biz Dev here at Decision Management Solutions, had a post a little while ago that she recently tweeted – How many service reps does it take to change a light bulb or lose a customer? In it she makes the point that a company lost her business because the customer service department [...]

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Live Event: Improving customer service with BPM and decision management

October 28, 2011

[ December 8, 2011; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM events this fall and next spring focused on “Improving customer service with BPM and decision management“. The second is in San Jose, CA on December 8th and the main session starts at 9am PT. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for [...]

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Live Event: Improving customer service with BPM and decision management

October 28, 2011

[ December 6, 2011; 6:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a serious of IBM events this fall and next spring focused on “Improving customer service with BPM and decision management”. The first is in Reston, VA on December 6th and the main session starts at 9am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, [...]

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Buy my new book – Decision Management Systems

October 7, 2011

My new book - Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics – is officially shipping – you can now order it (rather than pre-order it) at IBMPressbooks.com, at amazon.com or at InformIT.
Build Systems That Work Actively to Help You Maximize Growth and Profits
Most companies rely on operational systems that are [...]

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IBM and delivering differentiated client value

June 1, 2011

IBM clearly realizes that people, process and technology all must go together to deliver value. This means that clients need both software and services and was the subject of this next session.
Business Analytics and Optimization is a segment that crosses hardware, software and services at IBM. IBM is committed to growing this business from over [...]

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IBM’s Big Data Platform and Decision Management

May 24, 2011

IBM has recently announced a new strategy for bringing Big Data to the enterprise. In particular this includes InfoSphere Streams v2 (announced April 12) and InfoSphere BigInsights 1.1 announced today. Big Data is an issue, of course, largely because the amount of data available to organizations is growing rapidly. Surveys show that many managers already [...]

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Webinar: Automating Business Rules – Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls

May 23, 2011

[ June 7, 2011; 11:00 am to 11:45 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Automating Business Rules: Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls with Corticon on June 7 at 11am Pacific.

Automating business rules enables organizations to make better, faster decisions.  Tremendous business gains can be achieved by improving productivity and customer service and by adapting quickly to changing market conditions. All [...]

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Using Decision Management to make sure your agents can handle any call

May 17, 2011

I got an invite to a webinar on this topic the other day. The invite had some questions for you to ask yourself about your call center agents and how effective they would be if:

They could act the way you wanted them to every time
They didn’t have to have post-its or cheat sheets
They didn’t need [...]

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Operational Intelligence Panel

April 29, 2011

A panel of customers (TXU Energy, Pfizer, NY State Dept Taxation and Finance – one of my favorite Decision Management stories and included in this white paper for instance) discussed how to link processes to performance management with Daryl Plummer  of Gartner and the folks from ebizQ. No attempt to make a coherent story, just [...]

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First Look – Information Builders

April 25, 2011

I recently got a briefing from Information Builders, an independent business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information integration/management (EIM) vendor founded in 1975. They sell their BI and EIM solutions separately, though they are increasingly selling these solutions together. They have 1,350 employees and 12,000 customer sites as well as a strong OEM portfolio. They find [...]

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Increasing customer satisfaction in claims processing with rules and process

April 12, 2011

Final IBM IMPACT session for me this year is If P&C Insurance talking about the role of process and rules in claims processing. If is the largest property and casualty insurer in the Nordic region and covers all sorts of risks across personal and commercial lines of business. Insurance Customer Satisfaction can seem like an [...]

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Decision Management and Insurance – multi-channel distribution and customer communication

February 22, 2011

Insurers face an explosion of direct sales channels: websites, mobile and call centers, with the rapidly evolving world of social media opening up even more opportunities. Driving consistent customer treatments and profitable direct sales across dynamic distribution channels, while effectively managing risk, is a huge challenge. As Deb pointed out, linking all customer communication together [...]

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Decision Management and Insurance – A Series

February 10, 2011

Insurers face new and growing challenges as the market moves into recovery in 2011: more delivery channels, demographic shifts, a changing competitive landscape and a rapidly evolving regulatory and compliance environment. Many insurers are faced with meeting this challenges hampered by inflexible legacy applications, underutilized data from internal systems and external sources, and manual spreadsheets [...]

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Teradata Active Enterprise Update

October 29, 2010

Syndicated from SmartDataCollective
Quick update from Teradata to kick off the day focused on Active Enterprise Intelligence. This remains a key theme for Teradata, unsurprising given the focus of Teradata customers on an enterprise data warehouse full of operational data. AEI is about a focus on moving from the back office to the front office – [...]

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Customer intimacy #bas2010

September 29, 2010

Customer intimacy is a hot topic these days. Customers are getting more complex because not only are they using multiple channels but because they have multiple online personalities – work, home, on behalf of a parent or child and so on. The fact that consumers trust each other (78%) but not ads (13% trust for [...]

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First Look – Kana

August 24, 2010

I got an update from Kana this week. Kana, for those of you that don’t know, is a product/solution company focused on helping enterprises with their customer service experience – what they call Service Experience Management. Kana has over 600 B2C customers across banking, telecommunications, retail as well as high-tech, travel, manufacturing etc. They are [...]

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