James Taylor

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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James interviewed by ComputerWire Computergram

July 16, 2007

James was interviewed by Madan Sheina for the July 16th issue of Computergram

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James interviewed on the BizRules Blog

July 13, 2007

James was interviewed by Rolando Hernandez for the BizRules Blog – Interview with Fair Isaac VP James Taylor on EDM and Smart (enough) Systems
Technorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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James interviewed on Intelligent Enterprise

July 9, 2007

Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise published a Q&A with James “Smart Systems Without Rocket Science“
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Intelligent Enterprise

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James wrote a white paper on Smart-Enough Decisions

June 29, 2007

James wrote a thought-leadership white paper “Smart-Enough Customer Decisions” for Montgomery Research discussing how smart-enough customer decisions can improve results for all concerned.

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James interviewed on the Customer Experience Matrix

June 29, 2007

James was interviewed by David Raab (who provided a testimonial for the book) of ClientXClient on his blog and you can read the interview here.
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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James Interviewed on Tyner Blain

June 25, 2007

James was interviewed by Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain, an expert in software development processes and techniques, as part of the book launch. You can listen to the interview here.
Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Requirements, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

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James and Neil giving a free webinar

June 13, 2007

James and Neil are presenting a free webinar courtesy of the Business Rules Forum (at which they are presenting later in the year). The webinar is Thursday, June 28 at 2PM Eastern; 11AM Pacific and is titled “What Are Smart (Enough) Systems And Why Do You Need Them?”. You can register here.

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