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James Taylor

Learn about the mortgage industry, rules and scorecards

July 24, 2008

ILOG is running a webinar titled “How to Leverage Scorecards for Accurate Risk Management” on Wednesday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Anthony Garritano, editor of Mortgage Technology magazine, me (James) and Janet Wall from ILOG will share presentation duties and give you a quick look at the mortgage industry, how [...]

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Come to the Intalio User Conference and get the book for free!

May 29, 2008

Neil and I are going to be speaking (on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile) at the Intalio User Conference on June 17th and the nice folks at Intalio have decided that everyone who attends deserves a copy of the book. While I am sure that all the attendees are [...]

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James and Neil presenting at Intalio’s user conference

May 20, 2008

The folks at Intalio invited us to speak at their user conference June 17-18. We are presenting on Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile on the first day. We would love to see you there so drop by and say hello if you are attending. Also we have a discount [...]

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New Expert Channel on B-Eye Network

April 22, 2008

Well there’s now another place to find our materials – I have opened for business as an expert on the B-Eye Network. Check out my channel Competing on Decisions (thanks to Neil for suggesting the name). This blog will be syndicated there but I will also be writing articles, posting white papers and generally making [...]

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Two Great Decision Management Conferences this year

April 17, 2008

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend – apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

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2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook – 30% Discount

April 16, 2008

Neil and I recently contributed a chapter to the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook and they just sent out a pre-release discount:
Human-centric business process management (BPM) has become the product and service differentiator. The topic now captures substantial mindshare and market share in the human-centric BPM space as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric business [...]

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Howard Dresner recommends the book

April 10, 2008

Howard Dresner, now independent but previously of Gartner and Hyperion and one of the leading voices in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management space listed Some good sources and included our book and our blogs (this one and Neil’s on Intelligent Enterprise). Thanks Howard.

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Call for presentations – the new EDM Summit

March 11, 2008

How are you integrating business rules and analytics?
How are you adding intelligence to your business processes?
How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems?
How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know.

We invite you to present [...]

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Q&A with James Taylor on Managing Decisions as a Corporate Asset

February 29, 2008

The current issue of BPM Strategies magazine has a Q&A on decision management – check out the online version of the magazine (members of the BPM Institute only).

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Podcast featuring James, Neil and Smart (enough) Systems

February 28, 2008

CS TechCast is a podcast series released every Monday hosted by Eric Johnson, Eric Beehler, and Josh Jones. Each week they discuss the latest Information Technology trends and news, and bring you interviews with key members of the IT Community. This week they included a nice little interview with me and Neil about Smart (enough) [...]

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A chance to get the book (and see me) at ILOG’s Dialog 08

January 28, 2008

Next month (February 24th – 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference:

I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up if [...]

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Interesting discussion of Decision Management available

October 31, 2007

I participated in recording this Business Decision Management roundtable with some folks for Brainstorm Group and I highly recommend it.
Enjoy

Technorati Tags: business decision management, business rules, decision management, EDM, enterprise decision management, predictive analytics, Brainstorm

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software

October 26, 2007

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems

October 23, 2007

Neil and I were up next presenting on Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems. Here is the slide deck on Slideshare.

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James interviewed on eStrata blog

October 17, 2007

James was interviewed about Smart (Enough) Systems over on eStrata’s Multichannel Musings blog by Don Obregon – Making Smart (Enough) Decisions

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James Interviewed and Book Excerpted on InfoQ

September 19, 2007

Jean-Jacque Dubray interviewed James for InfoQ and the site carried an excerpt of Chapter 10 – Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

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James speaking at IASA events

August 6, 2007

James is speaking at a number of IASA IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 events this fall. The book should be available at the events and James will be presenting some key concepts around decision services and enterprise decision management.

Atlanta, September 13-14
Washington DC, October 8-9
San Diego, October -16

Technorati Tags: Decision [...]

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James interviewed on Big Sky Associates’ blog

July 30, 2007

James was interview on Big Sky Thinking, the Big Sky Associates’ blog – Interview with James Taylor, author of “Smart (Enough) Systems“
Technorati Tags: analytics, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, operational decisions

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James interviewed on Tom Debevoise’s blog

July 25, 2007

James was interviewed by Tom Debevoise and Tom has made the recording available here – Interview with James Taylor, Smart Enough Systems
Technorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Business Process

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