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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 [...]

I worked with Kinney Zalesne back when I was speaking about decision management on the Silverlink product tour (I blogged about it here). She and Mark Penn have just started a new column in the WSJ called Microtrends (the same name as their book – Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes – which [...]

Two gentlemen from Deloitte presented Integrating Predictive Analytics and BRM to Improve Health Plan Member Experience. 80% of healthcare costs are incurred by 20% of members and traditionally the 20% get all the focus. Analytics and data mining get applied to claims, authorization, costs as a result. Segmentation focuses on the unprofitable and unhealthy. Increasingly [...]

I have just finished presenting on the last of a series of roadshows for Silverlink. I was one of a series of presenters for their Think Different seminars. I presented with Kinney Zalesne (author of Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes), Liz Boehm (Healthcare analyst at Forrester) and Fred Jubitz (recently of American [...]

Silverlink is an interesting company whose approach is to apply science to drive healthcare behaviors in a scalable manner. They made some announcements today at the Health 2.0 conference. I recently got a chance to speak with the CEO (Stan Nowak) and his team. Silverlink has 50 healthcare clients representing 150 million lives (including 9 [...]