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I am co-hosting the TDWI Solution Summit Putting Big Data and Analytics to Work in Your Organization with Fern Halper, June 3-5 in Coronado, California. TDWI Solution Summits are great events and I am looking forward to it. The agenda is focused on how to get full business value and organizational advantage from big data and [...]

DecisionCAMP 2018 in in Europe – Luxembourg to be precise – September 17-19. This is a great event and well worth your time if you are interested in the nuts and bolts of decisioning technology, Decision Management or decision modeling. Last year’s event in London was great with a wide range of presentations and lots [...]

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 speaking at an event in Switzerland, September 21 at 4pm CET at the Swiss Exchange in Zurich. I am talking about Successful digitalization and automation in the financial and insurance industry: State-of-the-art methodical approaches help companies succeed at digital transformation. Besides efficient IT architecture concepts, the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard plays an increasing [...]

I am going to Tokyo at the end of July to talk Decision Management, DMN and AI. The event is Monday July 24, 2017 2pm- 5pm at the Japan Education Center. I’m going to discuss Decision Management and the role of technology for Business Rules, Big Data Analytics and AI in delivering it. I’ll introduce [...]

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 with presentations at Building Business Capability, Kaiser Permanente and IBM presented on their decision management and cognitive platform for application development innovation. For those of you that don’t know, Kaiser is the Nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan. They do everything from inpatient, to home health, hospitals, hospice, pharmacy, and insurance. 10M+ members, 17,000 doctors and [...]

I am giving a presentation on Pioneering Decision Services with Decision Modeling at Kaiser Permanente with David Herring at this year’s Building Business Capability conference. Well drafted guidelines help new users learn best practices, identify useful patterns and help enforce good governance. However, good guidelines are hard to develop and expensive as they involve significant investment from [...]

Join me for a free webinar on 3 Reasons to Adopt Decision Modeling in your BRMS Program Thursday, September 29, 2016 11:00 AM PDT Decision modeling address 3 key challenges of a existing BRMS program, improving traceability, sustaining business engagement and maximizing re-use while minimizing duplication. A decisions-first, decision modeling approach using the Decision Model Notation [...]

Join me for a free webinar 4 Reasons to Start with Decision Modeling on Your First BRMS Project on Thursday, September 15, 2016 11:00 AM PDT If you are kicking off your first BRMS project, don’t start by gathering the rules! Often teams will be advised to begin their project by gathering all the relevant rules, in a [...]

I am co-hosting TDWI’s Solution Summit on Business Innovation through Analytics and Big Data Architectures with Philip Russom, April 10-12 in Savannah, GA Business, analytics, and big data are colliding to create new and innovative ways of running a business, regardless of organizational size or industry. From one direction, organizations are collecting data from new sources, [...]

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 [...]

I am giving a webinar on Predictive Analytics Deployment to Mainframe or Hadoop with Mike Zeller of Zementis on Thursday, March 3, 2016 11:00:00 AM PST The big challenge for analytics-driven organizations today is closing the gap between deriving an analytic result and getting the ROI. Organizations need a consistent and efficient way to deploy analytic results [...]

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, [...]

I am giving a webinar with IBM on Transforming Operational Systems: Analytics and Decision Management, August 11 at 11am Eastern Organizations today face rapidly changing environments where operational systems need to do more than just process high volume transactions quickly. They must also be able to execute informed business decisions for greater customer service and personalization. This [...]

Another Think Big employee came up to talk about real-time big data especially around event analytics. Real-time, he says, is generally something happening in a second or so not minutes or hours. Might be push or pull but what matters is the time from data in to data out. Real-time responses, he pointed out,  need [...]