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Great interview with Deepak Advani of IBM

February 24, 2010

Doug Henschen has a great interview with Deepak Advani of IBM, the new head of IBM’s newly acquired SPSS business (and I am not just saying that because he mentions Smart (Enough) Systems).  I am looking forward to seeing what IBM does with the combination of ILOG and SPSS, along with InfoSphere, WebSphere, FileNet and [...]

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Decision points

February 10, 2010

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My friend Jerome had a post this week on finding decision points – the spots in a business process where you make a decision – that was prompted by discussions he and I had with a joint client. Jerome focuses on certain kinds of activities and the words that describe them like analyze, [...]

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Where to start with analytics?

January 6, 2010

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One of my google alerts pointed me to this thread on Oracle’s discussion forums OTN Discussion Forums : Text Mining Dictionary …. I got the alert because one of friends at Oracle responded to the question “Where to Start?” by quoting the book (Smart (Enough) Systems) I wrote with Neil Raden:
Wrong: Catalog everything [...]

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Use decision management to make systems smarter

June 5, 2009

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Michael Vizard had an interesting post (via @merv) – Making Business Intelligence Applications Smarter in which he began with the great phrase:
One perplexing oxymoron of IT industry is the simple fact that most business intelligence applications are not all that smart
In Smart (Enough) Systems Neil and I argued that the way to make [...]

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Here’s how micro decisions turn blasting into targeting

May 29, 2009

Ginger Conlon had a nice post this week – Don’t Blast. Target. – Think customers: The 1to1 Blog.
many marketers are still drawn to the ease of blasting to a broad audience, instead of targeting for maximum impact among those most likely to respond
If you are trying to make this transition from blasting to targeting – [...]

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A reader asks about champion/challenger testing

May 27, 2009

A little while ago I got an interesting question from a reader about champion/challenger testing  – an element of adaptive control. Check out this brief on Adaptive Control or read the chapter in Smart (Enough) Systems for details on the approach. Anyway, here’s the question:
When testing a champion strategy with challengers, I assume sample [...]

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Almost Intellectual Systems

April 30, 2009

Well it finally happened – Neil and I became internationally published authors! Check out this link and what you see is a Russian version of Smart (Enough) Systems, the book on Decision Management we published a little while back. If any of my readers are Russian speakers and get hold of a copy in the [...]

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Another analyst firm (Ventana Research) gets it

April 6, 2009

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It can sometimes be lonely being a proponent of a big new idea like decision management. It is delightful, then, when you find out that you are less alone than you expected. Last week I came across a couple of white papers from Ventana Research – Extending BI to Support Operational Decision Management [...]

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Here’s how to build on Business Analytics

March 31, 2009

As I blogged earlier, at the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence – BI – and Business Analytics. I worry that this is a distinction without a difference and that it fell short of what SAS can offer its customers. Neil Raden, on his blog, dismissed the [...]

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Decision Management focuses on Microdecisions for Macro Impact

March 5, 2009

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Tom Davenport had a post today on Microdecisions for Macro Impact that pointed out on the key benefits of decision management, with its focus on operational decisions:
If you can identify a few key microdecisions that can be addressed and improved, you can often dramatically improve performance.
“Micro decisions” is a phrase Neil and I [...]

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Is eBank the future of banking?

July 16, 2008

Thanks to my friends at Bankwatch I heard today about eBank in Japan. The bank is described in this nice article on swiftcommunity.net. What struck me about this was the focus on complete automation of decision making – not just the processes and information colleciton, but the decision making itself. Is this the person they [...]

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Book Review by Ade McCormack

June 30, 2008

Ade McCormack, author of The IT Value Stack (reviewed previously) and columnist at the FT in England, just reviewed the book for this blog. You can read his review of Smart (Enough) Systems over on his blog.

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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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Your chance to blog and win!

May 8, 2008

Tony, over on the Decision Support Analytics blog, is running an interesting competition and the prizes have just improved – Neil and I offered a signed copy of our book to add to his list of potential prizes. You can check out the details here. I plan to write a couple of entries soon and [...]

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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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Gartner BI – wish I was there

April 1, 2008

I was checking out Doug Henschen’s interview of Kurt Schlegel – Gartner BI analyst – and page 2 was particularly excellent. Kurt clearly understands the value of being decision-centric and the need for BI to broaden to include rules and predictive analytics. And he plugged the book too, which is always appreciated. It’s a pity [...]

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Want EDM Success? How about a recipe for that?

March 28, 2008

Mike Kavitz had a great post on his blog today Want SOA Success? Try this Recipe. I really liked the article, not least because it was clearly based on hard-won experience on Mike’s part. Reading it I saw how similar an Enterprise Decision Management or EDM success recipe would be.

Research the living daylights out [...]

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Live from DAMA – Business rules, decision management and smarter systems

March 18, 2008

This was my session. You can get a PDF of my slides or View them on SlideShare.
Previous in series Next in series

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Has Business Intelligence Outlived its Usefulness?

March 3, 2008

I saw a post with the title “Has Business Intelligence Outlived its Usefulness?” on Colin White’s blog and my first reaction was one of shock. On reading it, however, I see that Colin is taking aim not at BI in general but at the use of the phrase – a narrower and easier target!
I do [...]

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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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