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“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jim Sinur of Aragon Research just published The Decision Management Framework Delivers Better Decisions (subscription required): This research note defines the Decision Management Framework (DMF) so that business and IT leaders will be more equipped to make beneficial decisions for their organizations. The DMF can be applied to a wide range of business scenarios. It […]
In the last year or so we have seen Forrester, Gartner, Aragon and IDC all talking explicitly about the power of Decision Management: Roy Schulte of Gartner was talking Decision Management and decision models at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit last week and recently said Stop talking to business leaders about technology and, instead, […]
A Business Rules Management Systems or BRMS is a powerful tool, but only if used correctly. To learn more, join me at the Building Business Capability Conference (BBC 2017) in Orlando. I will be speaking on Day 1 of the conference, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 4:50pm. Here is the abstract: Several recent projects have combined decision […]
We have been helping several organizations improve their analytic and data science projects. Like many users of analytics, these organizations find that their analytic teams often lack a clear understanding of the business problem, resulting in projects that lose their way or produce analytic models that don’t get operationalized, deployed or used. We have helped […]
The fifth in the series of short videos about Decision Modeling is focused on the differences between decisions and business rules. Jan Purchase and I developed these videos while working on a new book – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN:
The fourth in our series of videos about Decision Modeling discusses the difference between the book and the standard document published by OMG. Jan Purchase and I developed these while working on a new book – Real-World Decision Modeling with DMN – and this video discusses why we think a book is useful and necessary even with a published standard: […]
