Cathy O’Neill wrote an interesting piece on regulating automated decision making recently. I am not going to argue about whether use of algorithms should or should not be regulated because I think it is inevitable that they will be. The question is how companies should respond to these regulatory efforts as they are rolled out […]
In February, we published a blog post on “Using Technology to Add Value in Insurance”. That post, referenced Matt Josefowticz’s article – Technology May be the Answer for Insurers, but What Was the Question?, in which he states that there are only three levers of value in insurance: 1. Sell More, 2. Manage Risk Better, and 3. Cost Less […]
In February, we published a blog post on “Using Technology to Add Value in Insurance”. In that post, I referenced Matt Josefowticz’s article – Technology May be the Answer for Insurers, but What Was the Question?, in which he states there are only three levers of value in insurance: Sell More, Manage Risk Better (aka underwriting and adjusting), […]
Nancy Casbarro and Deb Zawisa of Novarico recently published a new paper on Data Science in Insurance: Expansion and Key Issues subscription required) that was summarized in this nice little article on Dig-in 3 challenges facing insurers in data science implementation. These three challenges – getting business buy in, attracting talent, and strategic alignment are exactly […]
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, […]
Kaiser Permanente is developing Clinical Decision Support systems using a combination of Decision Modeling, DecisionsFirst Modeler and IBM’s Business Rules Management System ODM. Their experience is that well-designed decision services can replace existing guideline documents. This is critical as guideline documents are expensive to develop (they involve significant investment from SMEs) and even good guidelines are of […]
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.
November 2, 2015 BBC2015 I am giving a workshop tutorial at BBC 2015 on Business Analysis and Architecture with Decision Modeling Monday November 2, 1:30pm: The proven technique of decision modeling is fast becoming the go-to approach for extending business architectures and system requirements to include business decisions. Modeling business decisions as peers to business processes […]
We are pleased to announce a new case study. In this firsthand account, Timo Laukkanen, Process Director at the Finnish Tax Administration (FTA), describes how decision modeling has filled the gap between process models and business rules in the most extensive project ever undertaken by the FTA. Decision modeling was quick to implement and has […]