Business Agility

We are running our regularly scheduled, and highly reviewed, Introduction to Decision Management training again February 23-25, 10am-11:30am Pacific each time. Decision Management allows the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility and greater effectiveness. Decision Management is a proven approach for adopting business rules and predictive analytics technology. Used with these technologies, [...]

One of my pet peeves is people who develop mobile applications and then insist on writing all their business logic as Javascript or Node.Js or something. As if the fact of delivering a mobile application overrides the need to be able to have business/IT collaboration around business logic, reduces the need for business agility or obviates requirements [...]

I am giving an online class Introduction to Decision Management in three 90 minute sessions November 17,18,19 Decision Management allows the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility and greater effectiveness. Decision Management is a proven approach for adopting business rules and predictive analytics technology. Used with these technologies, Decision Management improves risk management and [...]

I am giving an online class Introduction to Decision Management in three 90 minute sessions August 25,26,27 Decision Management allows the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility and greater effectiveness. Decision Management is a proven approach for adopting business rules and predictive analytics technology. Used with these technologies, Decision Management improves risk management [...]

I will be giving the Decision Management and Business Rules 101 class at BPM Institute’s New York event in November – Monday November 3 Decision Management and business rules allow the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility. Adopting decision management and business rules technology improves customer service, enables 1:1 marketing, increases straight [...]

I am giving a webinar with Emericon on October 29 at 2pm ET/11am PT on Making Decisions at the Velocity of Change Many leading organizations see the need to align business and IT to better meet market demand. The velocity of change is continually increasing and organizations are expected to keep pace to stay competitive and [...]

I am giving a webinar on “6 Opportunities for Business Improvement with Decision Management” Wednesday June 25 at 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern. What opportunities are you looking for to improve your business performance? In this webinar you will learn six opportunities that are readily available when you adopt a decision management approach to business rules and [...]

I am giving a webinar at 9am Pacific on June 25 – “6 Opportunities for Business Improvement with Decision Management” What opportunities are you looking for to improve your business performance? In this webinar you will learn six opportunities that are readily available when you adopt a decision management approach to business rules and predictive [...]

Next up at PegaWorld was a customer presentation from Vodafone. Vodafone is one of the world’s largest communications companies with 30,000+ employees and 400M customers across 30 countries. They have expanded from consumer mobile telephony to a broader portfolio of services (fixed and mobile, converged, enterprise and consumers).  This change has driven a need to serve multinational customers [...]

I am teaching a live online version of the BPM Institute’s Decision Management and Business Rules 101 class on April 9 and 10th, 1-5pm ET each day. Decision Management and business rules allow the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility. Adopting decision management and business rules technology improves customer service, enables 1:1 [...]

Happy New Year. This week’s white paper is one from 2012: Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Adaptive and Analytic or how to use more than just business rules to develop systems more effectively. 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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am giving a webinar on the 5 Benefits of Customer Decision Management at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern on October 11 (changed date and time). Knowing how to create better, more profitable customer relationships starts with an understanding of the strategic and day-to-day operational decisions your company or organization is making about those customers. If you [...]

Working with our European partners (BCS), Decision Management Solutions has scheduled a series of three webinars at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern/16:00CET. Designed to be  live events that work for those in Europe, this is a foundation series on three core topics – Decision Management, Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. There is no restriction on attendance – [...]