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This week is Building Business Capability 2013 in Las Vegas. I thought I would write some blog posts on how adopting Decision Management can build your business capability. Part 1 is all about business processes, and how Decision Management makes your business processes simpler, smarter and more agile. Part 2 is about how Decision Management [...]

Register Today! Decision modeling is the cornerstone of the Decision Management approach to design and requirements gathering for business rules and predictive analytic technology projects. Join me for this 6-part live online training class. The class will prepare you to be immediately effective in using the Decision Management approach and a modern, collaborative standards-based approach [...]

I am going to be participating in Decision Camp 2013 in San Jose, November 4-6. I will participate in the newcomers track on the Monday, helping to introduce the basics of Decision Management and then I will help open the main day on the Tuesday. Monday’s session is 3-5pm: The Decision Management Journey Decision Management [...]

Regular readers know that there is an events category on the blog that shows the upcoming opportunities to hear me speak, attend one of my webinars, or come to a workshop. These get tweeted  by me (@jamet123) but for various technical reasons don’t appear on the home page except as part of the calendar widget. [...]

I recently finished a new white paper Decision-Centric, Intelligent Processes. This was sponsored by Blueriq (formerly Aquima) and is available on their site here. Organizations, both commercial and governmental, are increasingly focused on their business processes. By modeling, implementing and managing business processes these organizations improve control, reduce costs and increase efficiency. Yet for all [...]

Last week we sent out a newsletter with a whole set of upcoming Decision Management events – chances to hear me speak in person, webinars we are participating in and even some live training events. For example: Come to a webinar with the International Institute for Analytics on how to Improve Analytic Results with Decision [...]

On September 9-10, 2013 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands I am giving a class on Decision Modeling for Business Rules Projects. Decision modeling is fast becoming the definitive approach for specifying requirements for business rules projects. Decision modeling makes it easier to get the requirements right, easier to draw the automation boundaries, easier to re-use, evolve and [...]

I am giving a tutorial at Building Business Capability 2013 on Modeling Decisions to Put Big Data Analytics to Work Improving Business Results on Tuesday November 12 at 9:00am Pacific As organizations invest in Big Data infrastructure they are looking for ways to show a return on this investment. They need an approach that will turn insights [...]

I was checking up on Predictive Analytics World and one is coming up in my neck of the woods next month – San Francisco April 14-19. This looks like being a great conference including sessions from my friends Anthony Goodbloom of Kaggle, Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics and John Elder of Elder Research – both [...]

There’s still time to register for the 2-day workshop in Europe next month. This covers the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics: Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here. The class covers: An introduction to Decisions and Decision Management Categorizing and identifying [...]

The Forbes Mini Main Tent was kicked off by Mike Perlis, CEO of Forbes. Mike focused on how to build a business as strong as the Forbes brand – something with four legs: Keep print business on track Build the digital business for growth Develop brand extensions like conferences and international Become a great technology [...]

The early bird pricing on our 2-day workshop in Europe expires this week. This workshop cover the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics: Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here. The class covers: An introduction to Decisions and Decision Management Categorizing and [...]

I am giving a 2-day workshop on the essentials of Decision Management, the effective use of business rules and Business Rules Management Systems and the role of analytics in Europe this June: Berlin – June 4/5 – Register here. Organizations must understand how to identify and classify decisions and how to assess the potential for [...]

I am giving a live 2-day workshop in Berlin, Germany this summer on Decisions and Decision Management. Organizations must understand how to identify and classify decisions and how to assess the potential for business rules and analytics to support and improve those decisions. They need to understand the available technologies and approaches and the long [...]

Patrick over at Figurs sent out a newsletter that highlighted an article from 2010 Biggest Barriers to Business Analytics Adoption: People. The article highlighted the people and organizational issues in adopting business analytics and #1 was “Lack of understanding of how to use analytics to improve the business”. While it’s been a while since this was [...]

Predictive Analytics World San Francisco 2012 is coming at the beginning of March and as a speaker (I am presenting Five Growth Scenarios for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud on the 5th), a workshop host (Business-friendly Data Mining with Decision Management on the 8th) and a blog partner I have  a discount code for you all. Use DMSBP12 to [...]

This is an update of an earlier post on Decision Technology Events for October 2011 There are a number of great events related to Decision Management themes and technology platforms this Fall.  Here’s my list so far: Computerworld BI & Analytics Perspectives 2011, 18-20 September, Phoenix, AZ @BIAPCW I am giving the opening keynote “From Business [...]

There are a number of great events related to Decision Management themes and technology platforms this October. Here’s my list so far for October 2011 Teradata Partners Conference and Expo 2-6 October, San Diego, CA This is a great conference for anyone using or considering Teradata. I assume that this year there will be a [...]

I am giving a workshop on Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics at Predictive Analytics World in New York all day on Tuesday October 18th. Putting business analytics to work is top of mind for organizations like yours. Business agility and operational responsiveness are more important than ever. There is a real opportunity to use [...]