agility

I am giving a webinar with Ryan Trollip of Prolifics on August 28 at 11am Eastern on “The Future of Business Agility, Process & Decision Management” Any organization that has successfully implemented some level of BPM can point to its many benefits, such as improved operational consistency and agility through automation. However, some BPM users [...]

The white paper of the week this week is Smarter Systems for an Uncertain World In an increasingly uncertain world, businesses require agility more than ever. But no organization can be more agile than its systems. Decision Management transforms your hard-to-change IT applications into action–oriented, flexible, predictive, smarter systems that learn and adapt. This introductory paper outlines [...]

Regular readers of my blog (as well as those who hear me speak and our Decision Management clients) know that I talk alot about automating decisions. Really, a lot. The evidence that taking control of decisions, specifically operational decisions, and developing Decision Management Systems to automate and manage those decisions drives improved organizational effectiveness is [...]

I am giving the opening keynote “Smarter, simpler and more agile: Modeling decision requirements to simplify processes and effectively apply business rules” at the ATOS Dream (Dutch Requirements Engineering and Management) event September 12 in Houton near Utrecht. Organizations have long seen the value in modeling and managing business processes. Today thesis Adopting organizations are business [...]

A new week and a new white paper. This week’s it’s all about Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management: Decision Management delivers next generation claims systems that act immediately, increase agility, consistency and accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, speed response and reduce costs. Insurers can achieve significant speed-to-market gains, reduce fraud and create innovative new [...]

Someone pointed out an old post of mine recently and, as they said it was particularly useful to them, I thought I would re-post it: Scott Cleveland had an interesting post this week on the single greatest benefit of BPM that included the information that 17% thought it was “Change business rules and processes without impacting underlying [...]

I am attending IBM’s Analyst Insights this week and blogging all the sessions not under NDA. First up is Bridget van Kralingen on The New Client Agenda: Driving Transformation with Big Data Analytics. IBM believes that Big Data is not inherently going to generate value, it is going to take using it in new ways [...]

A new week and another new white paper. This week it is Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management Decision Management delivers next generation claims systems that act immediately, increase agility, consistency and accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, speed response and reduce costs. Insurers can achieve significant speed-to-market gains, reduce fraud and create innovative new claims [...]

A new week and another new white paper. This week it is The Decisions at the Heart of Your Process How Decision Management simplifies business processes and improves results Companies applying Business Process Management can create simpler and more agile processes, and more flexible business applications, by externalizing decisions and applying business rules to effectively manage those [...]

A new week and another new white paper. This week it is Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Adaptive and Analytic Business rules are a powerful tool for developing agile systems. Moving forward, becoming analytic and adaptive as well as agile will be a source of competitive advantage. This white paper is based on my keynote from the Building [...]

Last session for me at FICO World is SulAmerica (part of ING) talking about their work with FICO moving decision management applications to the cloud. Cloud is clearly a growth area for businesses, with much of companies’ IT  investment being pushed to the cloud. This move to the cloud turns applications to SaaS, middleware into [...]

Here are the slides for my session at IBM IMPACT today Decision Management Cases: Agility and Adaptability from James Taylor Hope you enjoyed the posts from IMPACT. Don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter if you aren’t already and contact us if you need any help with Decision Management.

Day 2 at IBM IMPACT kicked off with another IBM keynote. Dave Farrell got it started telling us that IBM got record attendance this year and that customers will be talking about how “business in motion” has helped them. First up is Jim King of BMI – a licensing and rights management company in the [...]

I went to listen to the folks from Cardinal Health talking about their supply chain and their use of BPM, Decision Management and analytics. Cardinal Health delivers products to medical facilities with 60,000 sites delivered to daily, 86% of US hospitals use them and 30,000 employees are involved. Cardinal Health is focused on helping improve cost-effectiveness and quality of [...]

I am speaking on Decision Management Cases: Agility & Adaptability in Insurance, Travel & Healthcare at IBM’s IMPACT 2013, April 30 4:00-5:00pm Business rules are a powerful technology with a proven track record building Decision Management Systems. Successful projects deliver business agility, empowering business users to manage the decision-making in their systems so they can [...]

Blueriq (previously Aquima) started as a business unit about 15 years ago by Everest (a consulting firm) and began developing a software solution. It now provides a complete business process management software solution with support for processes, intelligent forms, case management etc built around a powerful business rules engine. They have a strong presence in [...]

This post is going live as I begin my keynote at Building Business Capability 2012 on Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Analytic and Adaptive Organizations are increasingly focused on delivering more agile systems. The use of business rules as a foundation for these systems delivers agility by ensuring that they are transparent, easy to change and [...]

I will be giving a webinar with Don Perkins, an experienced business rules consultant, on Re-inventing Business Requirements with Decision Management, Wednesday November 28 at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern: Effectively capturing and managing requirements is critical in any IT project. Business analysts and others gathering requirements know how to capture and document processes, data and user tasks. [...]

Gagan Saxena and I are speaking at this year’s Building Business Capability conference October 28 – November 1 in Fort Lauderdale, FL  and I am giving a tutorial. My speech is on Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Analytic and Adaptive Organizations are increasingly focused on delivering more agile systems. The use of business rules as a foundation for [...]