James Taylor's Decision Management

A decisioning elevator pitch

jtaylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:36 -0800

So you're the CIO of a Fortune 500 company and you step into an elevator with your CEO. He asks why the board should approve your seven figure Decision Management budget request. What's your "elevator pitch" for decisioning? Is it...

Predictive analytics panel at Business Analytics Summit

jtaylor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:54:11 -0800

I hosted a panel last week on predictive analytics at the Business Analytics Summit. I was joined by Richard Boire of the Boire-Filler Group, Jean-Paul Isson of Monster.com and Michael Berry of Data Miners (and author of Data Mining Techniques,...

KPI framework for a competitive edge

jtaylor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:05:01 -0800

I am hosting a panel on Predictive Analytics at the Business Analytics Summit and I got a chance to attend a session beforehand where Dave Stodder presented on performance management and Key Performance Indicators. Dave began by emphasizing that performance...

A discussion on business rules and business processes

jtaylor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:34:50 -0800

An interesting question got posted over on the ebizQ discussions - Why are Business Rules Subjugated to Process Management When Business Rules Should be Leading Process Management?. Check it out - I will write something longer on this topic when...

Smarter systems for uncertain times - Business Rules Forum keynote

jtaylor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:01 -0800

I gave a keynote at the Business Rules Forum today on Smarter systems for uncertain times. I gave the presentation without slides and had planned to use my notes as a post but, as the notes ran to 5,000 words,...

Business Rules Forum 2009 - Day 2

jtaylor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:44:58 -0800

The second full day of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit is over and once again I have been taking notes rather than blogging live. Once again there were some great sessions - today I heard Steve Hendrick of...

Business Rules Forum 2009 - Day 1

jtaylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:55:14 -0800

It's the end of day 1 of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit and time to write a wrap up post for the day - no live blogging today as I have too much on as track chair to...

Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management

jtaylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800

In a press release just over a month ago, Gartner said that Context-Aware Computing will provide significant competitive advantage. As the press releases says:Gartner defines context-aware computing as the concept of leveraging information about the end user to improve the...

The Decision Model and business rules

jtaylor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:47:37 -0800

The new book from Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology, is now available. This book outlines an approach for capturing and managing the business rules you need to understand...

Updates from the Gartner BPM conference

jtaylor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:47:35 -0800

I was at the Gartner BPM conference last week and I was struck by the degree to which business rules, and decisioning, were top of mind for many of the attendees. The power of advanced decisioning to make processes simpler,...

Some thoughts on rules, decisions, agility and more

jtaylor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:52:35 -0800

I got an interesting comment on my recent post about the top 4 concerns of CIOs. Joanne makes a number of points in her comment that I thought should be addressed: a business rules engine is not nearly enough. What...

Decision Management and the top 4 concerns of CIOs

jtaylor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:01 -0800

I was reading an article on The top 10 CIO concerns and I was struck by the first four: Business productivity and cost reduction IT and business alignment Business agility and speed to market Business process re-engineeringIt seemed to me,...

Adding decision management to your BPM initiative

jtaylor — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:55:00 -0800

Last week I wrote a piece on the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning. As promised, here are some thoughts on how to get started. Identify your decisionsStep one is to find and name and manage the decisions that matter...

Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning

jtaylor — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:32:31 -0800

Inspired by this post by Vijay on Art of Software Reuse (Risks With Pursuing BPM Without SOA) I thought I would write something about the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning - without decision management. When BPM is pursued without...

Looking at code from both sides with business rules

jtaylor — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:57 -0800

Sharon Machlis had a great piece over on Computerworld titled Opinion: I've looked at code from both sides now on her experience of being a developer on a project where she was usually a user. It's an interesting experience that...