Event

Podcast (and webinar) on using analytics for smarter BPM

March 1, 2011

I am participating in the ebizQ BPM in Action event later this month – I am giving a webinar on BPM and Intelligent Operations – and I recorded a podcast on this topic with Peter Schooff. If you are interested in how analytics impacts BPM you can listen to the Smarter BPM podcast and register [...]

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Webinar: Analytics in Action: BPM and Intelligent Operations

January 29, 2011

[ March 10, 2011; 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm. ] I am giving a webinar on BPM and Intelligent Operations as part of the ebizQ BPM in Action series on March 10. Operational systems can certainly be made more efficient with BPM, but what about making them more effective? Increasingly, companies need intelligent operations that deliver a real improvement in effectiveness. BPM is the right [...]

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DM Radio – Obedient Systems and the Value of Business Rules

January 20, 2011

[ September 22, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] I am participating in a DM Radio event Thursday September 22d at 3 ET along with guests Matt Creason of Sybase, Sarah Kohler of Trillium Software, and Russ Johnson of ASA. Register here.

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Last three webinars in 2010 – Insurance, Analytics, Drools

November 2, 2010

We are wrapping up our webinar series on decision management and I wanted to make sure you knew about the three remaining webinars. These webinars are a great tool for you to learn more about predictive analytics, business rules and decision management in practice. There are more details on the events page [...]

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Lots of decision management events this fall

September 7, 2010

The fall event sequence is starting and early bird discounts are expiring so it’s time to plan your fall

Webinar – Simplifying over-complex processes September 9, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms September 23, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Implementing analytics? You need business rules October 7, 10am Pacific
RulesFest October [...]

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Fall webinar series announced

August 30, 2010

I just scheduled and announced four new webinars for this fall:

Simplifying over-complex processes
Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms
Implementing analytics? You need business rules
Decision analytics – more than BI and web analytics

You can find all my upcoming events in the Events Calendar.

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More intelligent processes – a video and presentation

August 25, 2010

I spoke at an IBM event in Paris recently on More intelligent processes – choices and results. You can see the video (with French slides but me speaking English) here. The English slides are on SlideShare below:
More intelligent processes – choices and results
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Webinar with Progress on decisions and responsiveness

July 21, 2010

I am giving a webinar on “Building Responsive Enterprises – One Decision at a Time” with Progress Software this week. I will discuss how decision management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business. I will discuss:

The responsive enterprise
The need for decisions
Business rules and business [...]

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Speaking at the ebizQ BPM in Action series

May 25, 2010

[ June 23, 2010; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] I am participating in the ebizQ BPM in Action series this month.  I am speaking on Advanced Decisioning for Process Excellence at 1pm on June 23.
Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process [...]

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Some thoughts on perfect application development

March 10, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
John Reynolds had an interesting post a little while back where he shared some thoughts on Perfect development tools. His emphasis was on support for things like iterative and test-driven development but it seems to me that there is also a need to move application development beyond code.
While developers do need development environments [...]

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Time to register for Gartner BPM and my workshop

February 11, 2010

The Gartner Business Process Management Summit, March 22-24, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, promises to be great with some good keynotes, lots of Gartner analysts and plenty of sponsors. The early bird rate for the event ends this Monday – register by 5 p.m. EST February 15 and save $300. I [...]

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Speaking at CT Business Rules User Group 12/17/09

December 9, 2009

[ December 17, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] I am presenting on Decision Management – putting rules and analytics to work at the Connecticut Business Rules User Group on Thursday December 17th at 5:30. This event is open to the public and is free. Registration is required – email president@hartford.theiiba.org. The schedule is:

Doors open at 5:30PM for registration and networking
Meeting Intro: [...]

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Webinar: What is an enterprise rule repository and do I need one?

November 29, 2009

[ December 9, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Another webinar in the ongoing series this fall. There is growing consensus among business rule practitioners and thought leaders regarding the importance of the rule repository in developing a scalable, sustainable business rule management capability. This session will provide an overview of business rule repositories and identify the three “must have” capabilities for supporting [...]

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Webinar: Getting your first predictive model up and running

November 10, 2009

[ December 8, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Another webinar in the ongoing series this fall. Predictive models,  aka scorecards, have been extensively used across industries in driving tangible benefits – both to the top line and bottom line.  This session covers the critical success factors and an analytical framework that will help get you there.  Real-life examples will also be provided.

Anunay Gupta, [...]

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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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SAS Premier Business Leadership Event

October 8, 2009

[ October 28, 2009 to October 29, 2009. ] I will be a guest at the SAS Premier Business Leadership Event in Las Vegas. I’m not speaking but if you are at the event and see me, say hi.

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Webinar: 10 lessons from implementing business rules management systems

September 29, 2009

The fifth webinar in the series. What do you really need to know when you start implementing a business rules management system? What can go wrong and what must you watch carefully? In this webinar you will learn 10 hard-earned rules for successful adoption and implementation of business rules management systems.
Claye Greene is the Principal [...]

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Webinar: The Decision Model – Empowering Decision Management

September 24, 2009

[ October 21, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The fourth webinar in the series. In order to implement Decision Management effectively, we need to be able to identify and manage the business logic (i.e. the business rules) underlying business decisions. It soon becomes apparent that classical methods of gathering and managing business rules (i.e. by natural language) do not scale to support Decision [...]

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Decision Management Summit – early bird extended

September 22, 2009

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give …

A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times

A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management

A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility

The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one extra week
PLUS there is [...]

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Webinar: Advanced decisioning for process excellence

September 22, 2009

The third webinar in the series, this one is a reprise of a Power Breakfast I am giving at the Gartner BPM Summit 2009
Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process issues at all? This session [...]

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