I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Zbigniew Misiak for a blog post in BPMTips.com. The post was titled, “BPM Skills in 2020 – Hot or Not”. In this interview series, many business process management experts were interviewed to discuss skills that will be useful for BPM professionals in 2020. Included in this prestigious […]
Matt Josefowticz wrote a great piece recently – Technology May be the Answer for Insurers, but What Was the Question? In this he argues that there are only three levers of value in insurance: 1. Sell More 2. Manage Risk Better (aka underwriting and adjusting) 3. Cost Less to Operate And that while some of these will […]
To keep processing costs low, many insurance carriers have a goal to increase the percentage of their claims that can be processed and decisioned with no human decision-making involved. This is called increasing the rate of straight-through processing (STP). Perhaps surprisingly, there remains a fair amount of human intervention involved in processing insurance claims. In […]
We do a lot of decision management projects, helping clients adopt the technologies and approaches they need to succeed with digital decisioning and decision automation. One of the key technologies for these types of projects is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS). Sometimes, we get push-back on using business rules because existing business rules projects […]
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 […]
Now that organizations have automated most routine processing using some programming logic and some basic rules, the next competitive frontier is making these processes adapt dynamically to changing conditions and unforeseen situations – and learning from each such situation. Processes with such sophisticated dynamic behavior are smart processes. Decisions inject Analytics smartness into Processes, making […]
Working with SMEs is a critical element of any project and new approaches to process and especially decision technology make a big difference. To learn more, join me and Alexandra Caraballo of Kaiser Permanente at the Building Business Capability Conference (BBC 2017) in Orlando. We will be speaking on Day 2 of the conference, Thursday, […]
Everyone wants to make better data-driven decisions. Reporting is getting in the way. Everyone wants to make better data-driven decisions. Many companies are using reporting to support decision making but their ability to do so is bogged down. There are too many reports, resources are committed to existing reports and the link from reports to […]
Join us at this year’s Building Business Capability Conference (BBC 2016) and for tutorials, presentations with Kaiser Permante and Goldman Sachs & Co. and more in decision management and decision modeling:
Learn how a modern business architecture was developed to leverage new technologies and align organizational change projects in this BBC 2016 presentation by Andrew Ray, VP Business Architecture & Change Management, Goldman Sachs & Co. and Gagan Saxena, VP & Principal Consultant, Decision Management Solutions, Beyond Textbooks: Building the Modern Business Architecture.