Why Business Analysts Want Decision Management
TweetThe purpose of business analysis is to accurately describe the requirements for an information system (more or less). Business Analysts use a variety of techniques to do this. They use techniques...
View ArticleMy work at the International Institute for Analytics
TweetI am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and recently published two new briefs on how to use decision requirements modeling in the successful application of analytics,...
View ArticleWebinar: Managing and Evolving Decisions with DecisionsFirst Modeler and SAP...
TweetJoin us this Thursday May 16, 2013 at 7:00 am PDT, 10:00 am EDT to learn the why and how of building a decision requirements model and integrating it into a business rules management system. We...
View ArticleThe role of decision requirements in the analytical life cycle
TweetEarlier this week I posted on the value of decision requirements modeling in analytic projects when it comes to coping with some of the analytic skills shortages people face. But this is not the...
View ArticleCustomer Data Platforms in Marketing Decision Management
TweetMy old friend David Raab just published a new white paper The Customer Data Platform: A new foundation for customer management (download for free with registration from ReachForce). In this paper...
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The role of decision modeling in a data-driven culture
TweetI recently checked out The Evolution of Decision Making - How leading organizations are adopting a data-driven culture, a new white paper from the Harvard Business Review sponsored by SAS: People...
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Here’s one effective way to avoid screwing up predictive analytic projects
TweetThere’s a great article over on Computerworld - 12 predictive analytics screw-ups. They asked some of my favorite data miners (John Elder and Jeff Deal of Elder Research, Eric Siegel of Prediction...
View ArticleA Practitioner Speaks: Requirements for analytic projects
TweetContinuing to expand on the questions I asked Andrea Scarso co-founder and COO of MoneyFarm when I interviewed him I wanted to focus on the question “How, specifically, do you develop requirements...
View ArticleWhite Paper of the Week: Decision-Centric, Intelligent Processes
TweetI 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...
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A Decision Model and Notation update – it’s submitted!
TweetWell all our hard work has paid off and we submitted a proposed standard to the Object Management Group on Decision Model and Notation. This standard is intended to provide a standard...
View ArticleWhite Paper of the Week: Decision Modeling for Business Rules Projects
TweetAs I am teaching a class on decision modeling this week, the white paper of the week this week is Decision Modeling for Business Rules Projects There is an emerging consensus that Decision...
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Partnership with Investment Bank Specialists Lux Magi Announced
TweetToday we announced our partnership with Lux Magi, specialists in mentoring the application of Business Rules, Business Decision Modeling and Business Decision Management Systems to investment...
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Building Business Capability Conference Starts Today #BBCCon
TweetWe are looking forward to a great week at the Building Business Capability (BBC 2013) Conference #BBCcon! Stop by our booth at P8 and ask us your questions about your Decision Management and...
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What’s Next for Decision Management?
TweetDecision Management is a powerful approach to implementing business rules and analytics. Decision management is currently being used successfully in many decision centric applications such as next...
View ArticleClearly defined objectives for predictive analytic projects
TweetThere was a great article in Predictive Analytics Times recently by my friend Dean Abbott - A Good Business Objective Beats a Good Algorithm. Dean, like me, talks about the importance of the...
View ArticleUCI Extension Defining Business Goals for Predictive Analytics – Winter 2014...
TweetI have been giving a class on Defining Business Goals for Predictive Analytics as part of the University of California Irvine Extension’s Predictive Analytics Certificate program. Predictive...
View ArticleDecision Model and Notation officially adopted
Well it’s official – the Object Management Group’s Board of Directors has voted to publish the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) specification. You can see the press release here. Decision Management...
View ArticleStill time to register for our Decision Modeling online training
If you are interested in decision modeling and in the new Decision Model and Notation standard there’s still time to come to this quarter’s online training. We are running our highly recommended online...
View ArticleGet better results by linking Decision Models to implemented business rules
At Decision Management Solutions we are big believers in building decision models as a way to specify the requirements for business rules projects. Our cloud-based, collaborative decision modeling...
View ArticleTDWI World Conference: Requirements Approach for Advanced Analytics with...
I am giving a class at the TDWI World Conference “Evolving Your Requirements Approach to Advanced Analytics with Decision Management” in Boston, July 20-25. This is a new class for TDWI that builds on...
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