As part of the build up to Building Business Capability 2017 I gave an interview on transforming the business. Check it out. If you want to come to BBC 2017, there’s still time to register with code SPKDMS for a 10% discount. If you are coming to BBC 2017, don’t forget to register for my [...]
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Silvie Spreeuwenburg of LibRT came up after lunch to talk about a rules-based approach to traffic management. Traffic management is a rapidly changing area, of course, thanks to IoT and self-driving cars among others. When one is considering traffic, there are many stakeholders. Not just the road user, also businesses reliant on road transport, safety [...]
I am teaching a tutorial at Building Business Capability 2017 on Decision-Centric Business Transformation: Decision Modeling, Monday November 6 at 1:30pm. Whether simplifying business processes; increasing straight through processing; applying big data, advanced analytics or AI/cognitive technology; or looking for dramatic reductions in time to market, many transformation opportunities require a focus on decision-making. In fact, [...]
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 [...]
Jeffrey Kuhn from BNY Mellon came up to talk about business transformation in the face of unprecedented and accelerating change. Technology is changing what is possible and allowing new competitors to emerge while offering new distruptors at every turn. We need, he says, to use these challenges to drive transformation in our organizations and this is [...]
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 [...]
Marie Wieck came back to discuss how to create the kind of composable business IBM discussed on day 1. It’s critical, she says, to keep customers at the center and drive a new process from this. It’s key to use data to make better decisions, and it’s important to have the kind of scalable infrastructure [...]
My new book – Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics – is officially shipping – you can now order it (rather than pre-order it) at IBMPressbooks.com, at amazon.com or at InformIT. Build Systems That Work Actively to Help You Maximize Growth and Profits Most companies rely on operational systems [...]
This post originally appeared as an article in my company‘s newsletter Decision Management News (sign up here). Business Process, Business Rules, Business Intelligence – the three “B’s” that drive much of today’s IT investment. Often considered separate domains and separate sets of technologies, each B has its own center of excellence, its own methodology, its [...]
