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Decision Modeling and the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge
Some time back I participated in a large group of practitioners working on a new version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® . After months of consolidating feedback and updating this (vry thorough) document, the IIBA has announced a public review of version 3. As their own newsletter says:
You can review the entire document or focus only on your areas of expertise and provide your feedback to the international, volunteer Core Team. Be sure to forward this email to your colleagues and friends in the Business Analyst profession and encourage them to participate. The more people from more countries, industries and companies of all sizes who contribute, the stronger this version of the BABOK® Guide will be!
[IIBA has] implemented a new Feedback Collector that makes it easy to submit suggestions, propose edits and provide feedback. To learn how to us
Manifeste de la Gestion de Décisions – French Translation of The Decision Management Manifesto
Manifeste de la Gestion de Décisions – the French Translation of The Decision Management Manifesto white paper is now available. Thank you to Emmanuel Bonnet, Directeur du Conseil, Génigraph, for providing the translation. The goal of the Decision Management Manifesto to help organizations like yours design, build and implement decision management systems with business rules and predictive analytics. […]
BPM Institute Live Training: Decision Management and Business Rules 101 San Francisco
Live Training as part of Brainstorm San Francisco
Decision Management and business rules allow the effective automation of decision-making combined with increased business agility. Adopting decision management and business rules technology improves customer service, enables 1:1 marketing, increases straight through processing and more effectively leverages scarce resources.
This course delivers a proven and standards-based approach to identifying, understanding and automating business decisions. With examples drawn from a variety of industries and use cases, this course emphasizes the modeling of decisions and the importance of managing both decisions and business rules over the long term. In addition the course shows how effective decision management simplifies and improves business processes, explains how business rules management systems add value and outlines multiple approaches for identifying suitable decisions. Decision management and business rules
Manifiesto de Gestión de Decisiones – Spanish Translation of The Decision Management Manifesto
Manifiesto de Gestión de Decisiones – the Spanish Translation of The Decision Management Manifesto white paper is now available. Thank you to our Alliance Program Partner Plugtree for providing the translation. The goal of the Decision Management Manifesto to help organizations like yours design, build and implement decision management systems with business rules and predictive analytics. The manifesto […]
Process innovation videos from bpmNEXT 2014
I attended bpmNEXT a little while ago and gave a demonstration of Decision Modeling for Simpler, Smarter, More Agile Processes. This was a live demonstration of DecisionsFirst Modeler, our collaborative cloud-based environment for decision modeling and showed how the Decision Model and Notation standard works. In addition, I showed how teams can collaborate on these models, how they can link to implementations like business rules, manage automation choices and ensure traceability. Check out the video below or here.
Predictive Analytics and Decision Management Video Interview #IBMIMPACT 2014
SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE broadcast from IBM Impact Conference in Las Vegaslast week. Helming theCUBE desk for IBM Impact were John Furrier and Paul Gillin and on Day 1 they interviewed me on how predictive analytics is stepping front & center in the business world. You can read the post here and the video is embedded below:
Cross-posted from JTonEDM.
Insurance Analytics Symposium 2014 – call for papers
I am on the advisory board of the Insurance Analytics Symposium, taking place in New Orleans this October 16 and 17. I spoke on Overcoming Barriers to Predictive Analytic Success – Before You Hit Them at last year’s and I am looking forward to this year’s also. If you have a story to tell about analytics in insurance, send us a proposal. W
New article on Moving to Real-Time Decisions
TDWI just published a new article of mine on Moving to Real-Time Decisions (it’s in a members-only newsletter so you will need to be registered to view).
When it comes to analytics, many organizations focus on using analytic insight to improve executive decision making. Yet there is often an even greater opportunity when using analytics to improve operational decision making. Operational decisions about a single customer or transaction are made by call centers, local staff, and automated systems. These decisions affect everything from fraud to customer satisfaction, from risk management to resource utilization. Although each decision has a localized impact, enterprises make so many of these decisions that the cumulative impact is enormous.
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