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Article on decisioning and process management

February 16, 2010

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The folks at BPTrends just published an article I wrote on advanced decisioning for process excellence. Advanced decisioning makes processes simpler, more agile, and smarter. Advanced decisioning allows for the effective application of business rules and advanced analytics. Making decisions explicit and managing them in concert with processes [...]

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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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Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management

November 6, 2009

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In a press release just over a month ago, Gartner said that Context-Aware Computing will provide significant competitive advantage. As the press releases says:
Gartner defines context-aware computing as the concept of leveraging information about the end user to improve the quality of the interaction. Emerging context-enriched services will use location, presence, social attributes, [...]

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Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 2 #brf

November 4, 2009

The second full day of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit is over and once again I have been taking notes rather than blogging live. Once again there were some great sessions – today I heard Steve Hendrick of IDC, Sandeep Gupta of Equifax, Chaitan Sharma of DAASL, Zach Springborn of OneData and Mo [...]

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Decisioning platforms and managing business rules

October 8, 2009

While at the recent Gartner BPM conference (twitter feed at #gartnerbpm) I got some interesting questions from @gagan_s. He saw my posts on the bare essentials of making rules work and @skemsley’s post on my advanced decisioning for process excellence session (recording here).
The first question he asked was a follow-up to Jim Sinur (@jimsinur) saying [...]

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Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur on the topic of business rules management – BRM – and its role as the misunderstood partner for process.  Jim argues you cannot survive, much less thrive, if you do not know your business rules. In particular, you must pull out and make explicit the 30% ff your most volatile rules. These rules [...]

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Survive, thrive and capitalize with BPM

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur introduced the session by describing how Gartner saw BPM being used to turn a cost reduction axe into a cost reduction scalpel during the recent recession – cutting more precisely. The current economic climate he says is “nirvana” for BPM and BPM is not perceived as a luxury but a necessity. The session’s [...]

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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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Webinar: Advanced decisioning for process excellence

September 22, 2009

[ October 8, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] 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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Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2009

September 14, 2009

[ October 5, 2009 to October 7, 2009. ] I am giving a breakfast presentation on Advanced Decisioning for Process Excellence at 7am October 6th at the Gartner BPM Summit. The show runs October 5-7, 2009 and I have also been invited to participate in some sessions around business rules, such as the analyst round table on Business Rule Management Roles and Responsibilities, with [...]

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First Look – River Logic Enterprise Optimizer

July 16, 2009

River Logic’s Enterprise Optimizer is what is increasingly known as an “Integrated Business Planning” solution. Enterprise Optimizer is designed to manage cross-functional decisions at strategic, tactical, and policy levels considering all the elements and consequences of those decisions. The models you build allow you to see the financial and operational impact of those decisions and [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar for July 3

July 3, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

Silverlink: Applying Analytics [...]

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Accelerating BPM Adoption

July 1, 2009

I am speaking at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco and blogging a couple of sesssions. First up today is Michael Melenovsky (formerly of Gartner) on Accelerating BPM Adoption – creating a vision and establishing a roadmap. Michael made the great point that companies sometimes get started with BPM to try it out and then [...]

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Using business rules to add decision transparency

May 27, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
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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Here’s how you know you need business rules

May 14, 2009

Jim Sinur asked (and answered) a similar question on this blog recently – Do I Really Need a Business Rule Capability? Now I generally talk about Decision Services as the driver for business rules – services that answer business questions for other services – so how can you tell that a service is ideal for [...]

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Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure

April 24, 2009

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This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just had to use it. Think about it – if all a dashboard does is stress you out and raise your blood pressure by telling you what’s wrong without giving you any help as [...]

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Another way decision management and process interact

March 19, 2009

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Jim Sinur, over on the Gartner blog, has a post this week on Rule Guided Processes are the Way of the Future in which he says
There are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change processes.
Now I have blogged before about the power of business rules and decision [...]

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Business Rules to Programmers – Methink thou doest protest too much I

February 27, 2009

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Well last week was exciting on the ebizQ blog – thousands of new visitors after a link from a popular programming blog. This article – Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To – referred to an old article of mine – Don’t soft-code, use business rules that had been prompted by his [...]

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Adding more intelligence to business process

February 2, 2009

Jim Sinur posted BPM Needs to Add More Intelligence to Decisions Surrounding Processes and said:
Going forward, I see a need for more sophisticated decisions that will require a deeper integration of rules, analytics, and complex events.
If you read my blogs, you know I agree with this statement in broad terms. I think, however, that the [...]

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Decision Management and some top CRM processes for a cost-constrained economy

January 22, 2009

A press release caught my eye recently on CRM – Gartner Identifies the Top Six CRM Marketing Processes for a Cost-Constrained Economy. Two of the six processes Gartner identified seem to me to require decision management to be done well.
1.Retention Management
Retaining high value or potential high-value customers is essential in difficult economic times. Gartner advises [...]

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