Business

I am giving a webinar with Predixion Software on The Power of Embedded Predictive Analytics, September 5th at 2pm Eastern. This is being given in conjunction with the Product Development and Management Association but is open to anyone. Enterprise Software is an intensely competitive business and products that don’t stay ahead in the race to add [...]

The white paper of the week this week is Becoming a Decision-Centric Enterprise Organisations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organisations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organisations struggle to improve business productivity while [...]

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 [...]

I am giving a webinar with the International Institute for Analytics August 22 at 11am Eastern on how to Improve Analytic Results with Decision Modeling In this webinar, IIA Faculty Member James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, will show how to improve analytic results with decision modeling. Decision modeling focuses analytic efforts, clarifies the business goals [...]

I am speaking at Teradata Partners 2013 on October 21 at 1:30pm – “5 Benefits of Customer Decision Management” 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 can better manage these decisions, [...]

I recently checked out The Evolution of Decision Making – How leading organizations are adopting a data-driven culture, a new white paper from the Harvard Business Review sponsored by SAS: People have long preached the benefits of relying on data and insights from business intelligence (BI) and analytics to help make better and timelier decisions. A reliance [...]

I am speaking at the Insurance Analytics Symposium (October 17-18) on Overcoming Barriers to Predictive Analytic Success – Before You Hit Them at 11:30am ET on Friday October 18. Maximizing the value of predictive analytics is a clear driver of future success in the insurance business. Yet many predictive analytic efforts fail to deliver hoped for business [...]

Information Management just published my latest column – Performance Management or Just Performance Monitoring? I am often struck by the investments companies make in monitoring their performance without any matching investment in being able to manage the systems that drive that performance. Decision Management and Performance Management should be a pair, driving true business cockpits. Enjoy.

I am presenting at Building Business Capability 2013 on Lessons Learned Modeling Decisions in Aerospace, Banking, Insurance and Healthcare on Thursday November 14 at 2:10pm Pacific Companies across a broad range of industries are applying business rule and analytic technology to improve the way their systems make day to day decisions. Knowing where to start, how to [...]

A new week and a new white paper. This week’s is Becoming a Decision-Centric Organization Organisations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organisations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organisations struggle to improve business productivity [...]

Mychelle Mollot kicked off day 2 of the Analyst Insights event discussing the analytic skills gap. Only 1 in 10 organizations, she says, feel they have the tech skills they need while 3 in 4 students feel they lack the skills they need. Meanwhile 72% of academic institutions believe they generate employable graduates but only [...]

Les Rechan and Niel Isford came up to wrap up the first day to talk about IBM’s focus on Client Experience. The products, as was noted earlier, are focusing on being Easy, Simple and Fast to make them easier to consume. From a licensing perspective IBM is working with clients on an IBM Unlimited License [...]

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 [...]

In conjunction with ASUG, the SAP user group,  I am giving a members only webinar on Managing and Evolving Decisions with DecisionsFirst Modeler and SAP Netweaver Decision Service Management, July 11 at 8am PT/11am ET. I am speaking with Carsten Ziegler, Architect and Chief Product Owner of SAP Netweaver Decision Service Management. Decision requirements models allow business analyst, [...]

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 [...]

Next session for me at FICO World is one focused on where customer decisioning is going. John Rymer of Forrester began by presenting some of the major trends found in a recent Forrester survey conducted for FICO: Customer modeling is getting much more sophisticated as companies try and understand large numbers of customers more precisely [...]

Stuart Wells, the CTO of FICO, came up to give the keynote and talk about FICO’s big cloud announcements: FICO Cloud-based Decision Management Platform (announcement here) FICO Analytic Cloud (announcement here and sign up here) Customer engagement applications  on this cloud platform announcement here (discussed also in this blog post). Stuart began with a couple of stories. [...]

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 [...]

In the analyst track we got an update on WebSphere. Marie Wieck kicked off with a quick overview of the WebSphere business and on the persistent themes, largely the same as the ones highlighted in the opening keynote (open, mobile) but also emphasizing IBM’s increased outreach to and support of developers, its focus on improving [...]