James Taylor

Neil and I recently contributed a chapter to the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook and they just sent out a pre-release discount: Human-centric business process management (BPM) has become the product and service differentiator. The topic now captures substantial mindshare and market share in the human-centric BPM space as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric [...]

Howard Dresner, now independent but previously of Gartner and Hyperion and one of the leading voices in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management space listed Some good sources and included our book and our blogs (this one and Neil’s on Intelligent Enterprise). Thanks Howard.

How are you integrating business rules and analytics? How are you adding intelligence to your business processes? How are you putting analytics to work in your operational systems? How, in other words, are you using Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) to innovate your business? Your colleagues and peers want to know. We invite you to present [...]

The current issue of BPM Strategies magazine has a Q&A on decision management – check out the online version of the magazine (members of the BPM Institute only).

CS TechCast is a podcast series released every Monday hosted by Eric Johnson, Eric Beehler, and Josh Jones. Each week they discuss the latest Information Technology trends and news, and bring you interviews with key members of the IT Community. This week they included a nice little interview with me and Neil about Smart (enough) [...]

Next month (February 24th – 26th), I am going to be attending ILOG’s user conference: I will be introducing and acting as host for a couple of sessions on best practices and giving a lunch and learn on Tuesday. I will be there the whole time, blogging from the BRMS track so look me up [...]

Neil and I are both speaking at the DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference March 16-20, 2008 in San Diego. Our sessions are both on Tuesday March 18th: James – Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems Neil – Tainted Truth: Understanding Industry Surveys There’s a discount price until Feb 8th. We would love [...]

I participated in recording this Business Decision Management roundtable with some folks for Brainstorm Group and I highly recommend it. EnjoyTechnorati Tags: business decision management, business rules, decision management, EDM, enterprise decision management, predictive analytics, Brainstorm

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements. The slides are on slideshare here | View | Upload your own I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context Enjoy.

Neil and I were up next presenting on Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems. Here is the slide deck on Slideshare. | View | Upload your own

James was interviewed about Smart (Enough) Systems over on eStrata’s Multichannel Musings blog by Don Obregon – Making Smart (Enough) Decisions

Jean-Jacque Dubray interviewed James for InfoQ and the site carried an excerpt of Chapter 10 – Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

James is speaking at a number of IASA IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 events this fall. The book should be available at the events and James will be presenting some key concepts around decision services and enterprise decision management. Atlanta, September 13-14 Washington DC, October 8-9 San Diego, October -16 Technorati Tags: Decision Service, EDM, [...]

James was interview on Big Sky Thinking, the Big Sky Associates’ blog – Interview with James Taylor, author of “Smart (Enough) Systems“Technorati Tags: analytics, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, operational decisions

James was interviewed by Tom Debevoise and Tom has made the recording available here – Interview with James Taylor, Smart Enough SystemsTechnorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Business Process

James was interviewed by Madan Sheina for the July 16th issue of Computergram

James was interviewed by Rolando Hernandez for the BizRules Blog – Interview with Fair Isaac VP James Taylor on EDM and Smart (enough) SystemsTechnorati Tags: Business Rules, EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems

Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise published a Q&A with James “Smart Systems Without Rocket Science“Technorati Tags: EDM, Enterprise Decision Management, James Taylor, Smart (Enough) Systems, smartenoughsystems, Intelligent Enterprise

James wrote a thought-leadership white paper “Smart-Enough Customer Decisions” for Montgomery Research discussing how smart-enough customer decisions can improve results for all concerned.