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We are wrapping up our webinar series on decision management and I wanted to make sure you knew about the three remaining webinars. These webinars are a great tool for you to learn more about predictive analytics, business rules and decision management in practice. There are more details on the events page but the three [...]

The fall event sequence is starting and early bird discounts are expiring so it’s time to plan your fall Webinar – Simplifying over-complex processes September 9, 10am Pacific Webinar – Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms September 23, 10am Pacific Webinar – Implementing analytics? You need business rules October 7, 10am Pacific RulesFest [...]

I just scheduled and announced four new webinars for this fall: Simplifying over-complex processes Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms Implementing analytics? You need business rules Decision analytics – more than BI and web analytics You can find all my upcoming events in the Events Calendar.

I spoke at an IBM event in Paris recently on More intelligent processes – choices and results. You can see the video (with French slides but me speaking English) here. The English slides are on SlideShare below: More intelligent processes – choices and results View more presentations from Decision Management Solutions.

I am giving a webinar on “Building Responsive Enterprises – One Decision at a Time” with Progress Software this week. I will discuss how decision management improves business performance by identifying the key decisions that drive value in your business. I will discuss: The responsive enterprise The need for decisions Business rules and business alignment [...]

I am participating in the ebizQ BPM in Action series this month.  I am speaking on Advanced Decisioning for Process Excellence at 1pm on June 23. Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process issues at [...]

Syndicated from ebizQ John Reynolds had an interesting post a little while back where he shared some thoughts on Perfect development tools. His emphasis was on support for things like iterative and test-driven development but it seems to me that there is also a need to move application development beyond code. While developers do need [...]

The Gartner Business Process Management Summit, March 22-24, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, promises to be great with some good keynotes, lots of Gartner analysts and plenty of sponsors. The early bird rate for the event ends this Monday – register by 5 p.m. EST February 15 and save $300. I can get 5 [...]

I am presenting on Decision Management – putting rules and analytics to work at the Connecticut Business Rules User Group on Thursday December 17th at 5:30. This event is open to the public and is free. Registration is required – email president@hartford.theiiba.org. The schedule is: Doors open at 5:30PM for registration and networking Meeting Intro: [...]

Another webinar in the ongoing series this fall. There is growing consensus among business rule practitioners and thought leaders regarding the importance of the rule repository in developing a scalable, sustainable business rule management capability. This session will provide an overview of business rule repositories and identify the three “must have” capabilities for supporting an [...]

The sixth webinar in the series. Decisioning rules can come by the hundreds or thousands.  These rules often involve large number of criteria. How do you capture that many business rules with so many variations without going crazy?  This presentation outlines a pragmatic approach based on developing business questions to create complex decision tables.  These [...]

I will be a guest at the SAS Premier Business Leadership Event in Las Vegas. I’m not speaking but if you are at the event and see me, say hi.

The fifth webinar in the series. What do you really need to know when you start implementing a business rules management system? What can go wrong and what must you watch carefully? In this webinar you will learn 10 hard-earned rules for successful adoption and implementation of business rules management systems. Claye Greene is the [...]

The fourth webinar in the series. In order to implement Decision Management effectively, we need to be able to identify and manage the business logic (i.e. the business rules) underlying business decisions. It soon becomes apparent that classical methods of gathering and managing business rules (i.e. by natural language) do not scale to support Decision [...]

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give … A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one [...]

The third webinar in the series, this one is a reprise of a Power Breakfast I am giving at the Gartner BPM Summit 2009 Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process issues at all? This [...]

Earlier this week I attended a local Business Intelligence SIG to hear Eric Siegel speak.  This was essentially a preview of Eric’s keynote presentation at Predictive Analytics World next month on reducing costs with predictive analytics. Eric is giving a webinar with me as part of the Decision Management Solutions webinar series – Optimizing Business [...]

The second webinar in the series, this one on  optimizing business decisions with predictive analytics. Harnessing value with predictive analytics depends on some careful choices: What kind of customer behavior you predict and which operational decisions you automate with it. This webinar will guide you in making these choices, and cover a healthy dose of [...]

An introduction to 5 core principles of Decision Management – operational decisions, business rules, predictive analytics, continuous improvement and decision making as a process. Little decisions add up The purpose of information is to decide You cannot afford to lock up your logic No answer, no matter how good, is static Decision Making is a [...]