11th
March
2009
This is my presentation so there’s no blog about it. Here are my slides:
Don’t forget to check out the white paper I have at decisionmanagementsolutions.com/warranty
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management |
11th
March
2009
Rob Pritchard of Infosys presented on the power of business rules in warranty. His focus is on agility – most warranty systems are inflexible and hard to change. Organizations cannot make changes to warranty policy to respond to competitors, can’t create what-if scenarios, can’t tighten claims control or pre-valid claims or repairs. These problems come [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |
10th
March
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
A friend passed on an article titled “When the customer knocks” in which Scott Arnett of Pitney Bowes discussed the power of data to improve customer interactions. Nothing there to cause me to blog you would think. Except that Scott, like too many in the Business Intelligence community, fails to acknowledge that using [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Business Rules, Decision Management |
7th
March
2009
I am participating in a webinar, on March 13 2009 at 10:30 AM PST, that will give you an overview of how Predictive Analytics can help you increase efficiencies in these unique times. You will get an overview of predictive analytics; critical requirements for success; and a few real life examples across industries of how [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics |
5th
March
2009
Continuing some posts on next generation warranty systems in the build up to speaking at the Warranty Chain management conference I thought I would contrast how current generation warranty systems handle critical decisions with how next generation systems do so.
Decision
Today
Next Generation
Is Claim Valid?
Data validation rules are coded into the user interface that captures [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
4th
March
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
John Reynolds over on the Thoughtful Programmer had a great post a little while back – 19th Century BPMS. In it he said
I sometime find it useful to describe a BPMS in terms of things and people that you probably would have found in an office or factory in the 1890s
This struck me as [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
2nd
March
2009
I am going to speaking next week at the Warranty Chain Management Conference (registration is still open) on Next Generation Warranty Systems. I hope to post a couple of product reviews (like the SAS Warranty one already posted) this week but I thought I could also talk a little about my topic.
The basic premise is [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
24th
February
2009
Syndicated from b-eye network
Last week I was at Predictive Analytics World, a brand new show on the business value of predictive analytics. The show was a great success, I think, as it attracted a decent audience in very tough times and succeeded in bringing together not just those building predictive analytic models, but also those [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Decision Management |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Sugato Basu from Google presented on sponsored search (Ad Words) and how you can predict bounce rate, and thus user satisfaction, for a new ad. Ad Words, of course, are displayed when a search is made and tracking results involves tracking who clicks on the ads and whether they convert, explore [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Arthur Hughes (author of Strategic Database Marketing) and Anna Lu of e-Dialog.com presented on predictive modeling for e-mail marketing. Arthur has been developing databases for database marketing for 30 years or so. Initially he focused on databases but found that people could not use them to make money and that led [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics |