decisions

I am speaking at the ODM/iLOG BRMS Meetup on Tuesday May 24, 2016 at 6pm Pacific in the IBM Offices at 1001 Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City (map) on Decision Modeling, DMN and IBM ODM. Decision Modeling with the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is a powerful way to maximize the ROI to be gained from [...]

Modelshop was founded by Tom Tobin, someone who has spent his career building analytic applications in credit origination, portfolio optimization, risk management and fraud detection for major financial institutions. Tom’s vision for Modelshop is to make the technologies that enable these types of solutions available to all organizations so they can make their analytics actionable. [...]

I am giving a tutorial at this year’s Building Business Capability Conference on Decision Modeling with DMN Decision modeling is fast becoming a must know technique for business analysts and business architects. Decision modeling aligns processes, business rules and data in the most optimal way possible. When analytics or business rules need to be integrated [...]

I am giving a webinar with Justin Philips of BP-3 on Getting Started With Decision Management Webinar, Tuesday May 24 at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern Join two leaders in the decision management field as they discuss using decision management in process. Key topics that will be covered: The difference between process rules and decision management Where to find [...]

One of the interesting and useful things about the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard for decision models is how it handles the data required by a decision. Simply put, a Decision in DMN may have any number of Information Requirements and these define its data dependencies – the Decision requires this information to be available if the [...]

I am faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and Bob Morison has recently published some great research (to which I made a very modest contribution) on Field Experience In Embedded Analytics – a topic that includes Decision management. If you want access to the full research you will need to become an Enterprise Research [...]

I am going to be the featured speaker at BP-3’s BPM Camp London on March 31. The event starts at 1pm local time and runs into an event event: Welcome & Introduction to Digital Transformation Introduction to Smarter Process & Real World Examples Importance of User Interface in BPM Adoption Four Pillars of Operational Excellence and the [...]

One of the fun things going on over at the Decision Management Community is a series of challenges based on various real or real-ish problems. For each the site encourages folks to develop and submit a decision model to show how the problem described could be solved. This month there was one on Port Clearance Rules [...]

My friends at TransUnion have an interesting job opening for someone with a background in decision management and consulting. They are looking for a Sr. Director, Decision Services CoE The Sr. Director, Decision Services Center of Excellence (CoE) will be responsible for developing and driving strategy to grow the Decision Services business for TransUnion’s International business. [...]

Decision Management Solutions joined the OneDecision.io consortium back in September and we have been working with them ever since both within the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standards process and to provide some integration between the OneDecision.io Java-based reference implementation for DMN execution (which supports basic decision tables, JSON data types, and the standardized DMN XML interchange format) [...]

I am working on a new book – Available now! Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN – with Jan Purchase and he recently posted another great post – How DMN Allows Business Rules to Scale. While decision modeling with DMN is not JUST about writing business rules (as I noted earlier), this is a great use case for it. [...]

As regular readers know I have been working on a new decision modeling book – Real World Decision Modeling with DMN – with Jan Purchase. While you wait for this book from Meghan-Kiffer press you might want to check out Questioning BPM? This was a fascinating exercise in which Paul Harmon and Roger Tregear asked a whole [...]

Besides working on Real World Decision Modeling with DMN  I recently contributed a piece on the use of decision modeling for framing predictive analytics to The Big Analytics Book, a book being produced by the folks at AnalyticsWeek. AnalyticsWeek rounded up 60+ thought leaders in analytics, including yours truly, and got us all to write a [...]

As you may have noticed I am working on a new book – Available now! Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN – with Jan Purchase. Yesterday Jan had a great blog post – Why Decision Modeling? (In 1000 Words). Jan makes some great points, emphasizing the value of  decision modeling with DMN in: Transparency of the logic Separation  of [...]

Many organizations have buried their operational decision making in business processes and information systems, making it hard to optimize how these decisions are made. This matters because more and more of the value created by business processes is associated with these kinds of decisions. As more processes are digitized and automated to keep pace with [...]

I am giving a webinar on How to Innovate Risk Management and Customer Centricity with Roger Burlton of the Process Renewal Group , February 17th at 11am Pacific. It’s a great chance to hear how to innovate risk management and customer processes with decision and process management, from two leading experts. Operational decision making is [...]

I will kick off Predictive Analytics and Big Data 2016 in San Francisco with the opening keynote on Monday March 14 at 8:30am. Predictive Analytics and Big Data are more than just buzzwords – they are defining modern business in ways unimaginable even a decade ago. Organizations can now tap into vast oceans of internal and external data to gain insights, [...]

Sometimes Scott Adams just nails it and late last year I saw this great strip on The Generic Graph. Work with analytics long enough and you see something akin to this – something Mychelle Mollot of Klipfolio called Building a One-size-fits-all Dashboard – one of the 6 mistakes she talks about in this article that she pithily summarizes as the “this sucks for [...]

We are running our regularly scheduled, and highly reviewed, Decision Modeling with DMN training again March 1-3, 9:30am-11:30am Pacific each time. Decision modeling with the new Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is fast becoming the definitive approach for building more effective processes and for specifying requirements for business rules and predictive analytic projects. With decision modeling, [...]