A post titled "Humans are Faster than Computers" over on the Return Customer blog made me think. I completely see his point - far too much automation is dumb and irritating and simply gets in the way. But let's think about his scenario.

So you're the CIO of a Fortune 500 company and you step into an elevator with your CEO. He asks why the board should approve your seven figure Decision Management budget request. What's your "elevator pitch" for decisioning? Is it...

I hosted a panel last week on predictive analytics at the Business Analytics Summit. I was joined by Richard Boire of the Boire-Filler Group, Jean-Paul Isson of Monster.com and Michael Berry of Data Miners (and author of Data Mining Techniques,...

I am hosting a panel on Predictive Analytics at the Business Analytics Summit and I got a chance to attend a session beforehand where Dave Stodder presented on performance management and Key Performance Indicators. Dave began by emphasizing that...

An interesting question got posted over on the ebizQ discussions - Why are Business Rules Subjugated to Process Management When Business Rules Should be Leading Process Management?. Check it out - I will write something longer on this topic when...

I gave a keynote at the Business Rules Forum today on Smarter systems for uncertain times.  I gave the presentation without slides and had planned to use my notes as a post but, as the notes ran to 5,000 words,...