judgment

Human and automated judgment

February 8, 2011

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics
Tom Davenport pointed me to an interesting article recently – Judgment Call or Automated Decision—Or Both? – by Jan Abrams. It’s an interesting article and I go back and forth as I read it in terms of agreeing or disagreeing with Jan.
First, let me say that the use of automated [...]

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IBM Advanced Case Management

April 15, 2010

At the IBM Advanced Case Management event in San Francisco today. Mike Rhodin, SVP of the newly formed Solutions Group within IBM Software, introduced the role of Advanced Case Management in Smarter Planet.
Smarter Planet is IBM’s umbrella concept for building systems to add intelligence to an increasingly instrumented and interconnected world. The changing kinds of [...]

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Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making #PBLS

October 29, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell, Thornton May (author of The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics)and Tom Davenport (author of Competing on Analytics, reviewed here) made up a high powered panel for this. Various random comments follow:

Healthcare is being used as an example by the panel as an obvious point where analytics and expertise intersect. There is a [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell and judgment in an age of uncertainty #PBLS

October 29, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell took the stage to present next. Malcolm is the author of some great books (such as Blink, reviewed here, and Outliers). Gladwell began by noting that Vegas seems an odd place to hold a conference on analytics!
His first story was about art – a dealer brings a new statue to the Getty, a [...]

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