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A survey in CIO magazine on IT leaders’ thinking in the current crisis revealed that a plurality (37%) chose digital transformation as their first priority to help the business persevere through the current disruption. Moreover, a full 61% of respondents agreed with the statement that the effects of the pandemic are actually accelerating digital transformation [...]

COVID-19 is driving a new normal in which resources must be allocated and managed more dynamically.

The new normal of COVID-19 is going to need customer relationships to be built and sustained remotely.

The new normal of COVID-19 requires systems that let you react quickly and accurately.

The COVID-19 Coronavirus has upended the world economy – and your business. While the impacts to date have been dramatic, we have to face the fact that this is the beginning of a new normal – a world in which this virus circulates. This will have short- and medium-term consequences for your business regardless of [...]

Balancing multiple profit drivers is essential in many high volume, transactional decisions targeted with Decision Management. Being able to execute decisions, monitor their effectiveness, learn what works, and systematically improve your decision-making results in significant business benefit. Mathematical optimization let’s you go even further. We recently published a new white paper – The Customer Journey [...]

A new white paper outlines the journey to optimal decisions and the role of mathematical optimization in getting the business results you want.

John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research have just published a new piece of research – The Dawn Of Digital Decisioning: New Software Automates Immediate Insight-To-Action Cycles Crucial For Digital Business. This is a great paper – not only does it mention some Decision Management Solutions’ clients as examples, it makes some great points [...]

Ginni Rometty kicks off the main event with her opening keynote focusing on putting smart to work. Her premise is that everything could be changing now because business and technology architectures are changing at the same time – something that does not happen very often. The opportunity is for exponential change across all businesses thanks [...]

AI is a hot topic and we get asked a lot by clients how they can succeed with AI or cognitive technology. There’s often a sense of panic – “everyone is doing AI and we’re not!” – and a sense that they have to start a completely separate initiative, throw money at it and hope [...]

I am giving a webinar on Boost Straight Through Processing in Your Claims System with Decision Automation at 10am Pacific on November 16. Register for this free webinar to see how you can automate decisions to handle more claims without manual intervention. Boost your Jet or Straight Through Processing rates to new heights to reduce costs, [...]

I am giving a webinar on Rapid Deployment of Customer Next Best Action at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern on November 2. Attend this free webinar to learn how you can quickly deploy next best action decisions that deliver the right marketing or customer service message to each customer, each time you interact with them. Learn from real world [...]

I am presenting on Maximizing the Value of a BRMS with Decision Modeling at this years Building Business Capability conference – Wednesday at 4:50pm Several recent projects have combined decision modeling and the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard with a Business Rules Management System.  The use of decision modeling as the core requirements modeling [...]

Neuro-ID TM started about 7 years ago with the premise that by monitoring how people use their keyboards and mice one could identify the confidence level of the person filling out the form. And that this could be done without any personally identifiable information. They developed a Neuro Confidence ScoreTM  (Neuro-CS TM) which they have [...]

I am giving a webinar on Success in Customer Next Best Action: Decision Modeling, Rules and Analytics Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:00 AM PDT Digitizing, personalizing and improving customer interactions is critical to business growth, customer retention and market engagement. Executives want to ensure that every interaction with every customer adds value – they want [...]

Reltio Cloud is a modern data management Platform as a Service (PaaS) company focused on delivering data-driven applications, founded in 2011 by folks from Siperian which was acquired by Informatica. Unlike most data integration and MDM platforms, which are IT-focused, Reltio’s mission to make it possible for business and IT teams in enterprises to “Be [...]

I caught up with the folks from Conductrics to learn about their 3.0 release (I have blogged about Conductrics before). Conductrics has been in the decision optimization business for many years now. At its core Conductrics is about assigning customers to experiences. They recently released 3.0 with some new features. Conductrics Express is a point-and-click [...]

Last day of blogging from Building Business Capability and the first topic is modern business architecture with Gagan Saxena, VP of consulting at Decision Management Solutions, and Andrew Ray of Goldman Sachs. The presentation is focused on a new approach to business architecture to address problems in the legacy approaches – one that connects business at rest to business [...]

Continuing to blog at Building Business Capability 2016 with Ron Ross talking about operational excellence. [My comments in italics] He began by talking about the new technology available and its potential while expressing worries that technologies, and technological approaches, might not really change our businesses for the better. In particular he expressed concern that “channel mania” might [...]