International Institute for Analytics 2019 Predictions – Some Thoughts
Several of this year’s International Institute for Analytics predictions point towards a DecisionsFirst decision management approach.
How More Companies Can Maximize the Potential of Analytics
“While most companies understand the importance of analytics and have adopted common best practices, fewer than 20 percent, according to a recent McKinsey Analytics survey, have maximized the potential and achieved [Advanced Analytics] at scale.” The same survey data is used in a great piece of McKinsey analysis – Breaking away: The secrets to scaling […]
80% of insurance carriers aren’t delivering high impact analytics. Here’s how you can do better.
80% of data and analytics leaders with global life insurance and property & casualty carriers surveyed by McKinsey reported that their analytics investments are not delivering high impact. What’s stopping them from delivering high impact? 38% of those surveyed cited a failure to integrate analytics into workflows and frontline systems. This was the leading obstacle to […]
Decision Modeling and DMN for IBM Customers – New Brief
We have a new Leading Practices brief available – Decision Modeling and DMN for IBM Customers. IBM has long been a leading player in business rules management systems and Decision Management Solutions has many customers using IBM Operational Decision Manager in North America and Asia. Our DecisionsFirst Modeler software decision requirements modeling using the Decision […]
DecisionsFirst Analytics in Forbes
Joe Decosmo, CAO of Enova Decisions and someone we know from our work at the International Institute for Analytics wrote a nice piece in Forbes today – Why You Should Take A Decision-First Approach To Analytics. Joe makes some great points in his post and leads off with a shout out to the Decision Management Manifesto. Like […]
Decision Modeling and IBM Operational Decision Manager
IBM yesterday announced that Operational Decision Manager v8.10 (ODM – IBM’s Business Rules Management System) will be available in December and will support decision modeling. This is great news as it will bring the Decision Composer functionality IBM has been developing into the main business user interface for ODM, Decision Center. We’re big fans of decision […]
Don’t bite off more AI than you can trust
Many, most, companies are actively considering using AI in their business, but few are making much progress. Some of this is due to a poorly defined approach. Some is due to confusion as to what AI means – mixing conversational AI (a user experience technology) with decision-making AI (an extension of predictive analytics and machine […]
Personalizing Insurance Marketing with Decision Management
A key way for insurers to respond to disruption in the insurance market is to more effectively personalize their marketing. Targeting prospects and especially customers with unique, personalized messages is a way for traditional carriers to be “disruptive”. Indeed there are those who see personalization—reaching customers with targeted messaging, offers, and pricing at just the […]
Delivering the Business Value of Analytics
Learn three critical success factors in delivering business value from your advanced analytics investments. Many organizations still struggle to get a business return on their investment on advanced analytics. The biggest barrier? An inability to integrate analytics, especially predictive analytics, into frontline systems and business processes. Work with a number of global companies has revealed […]
Adopt Decision Modeling for DecisionsFirst Analytic Success
Add decision modeling and a DecisionsFirst approach to analytics to this established AI Solution Decomposition Process to make it more effective.