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Analytic practitioners speak – an interview with Lee Feinberg of DecisionViz
Please describe your current role and title
DecisionViz is a management consultant that helps companies build leadership in the processes, people, and culture around data visualization. We work with senior management to elevate visualization from the activity of reporting and making charts to being integrated with their daily decision-making. I founded the company in 2012.
What’s your background, how did you come to be working in analytics
Our story I think is like many in the analytics field. It’s been more of an evolution and the company has been almost 20 years in the making.
I was very involved with the Internet before most people heard about the Internet. So we were dealing with how to capture and measure all this new data. I’ve always been on the lookout for how to make that a lot less painful. Most of the work was in financi
Decision-centric dashboards and application lifecycle management with Assure
We have become increasingly convinced that decision modeling, especially decision modeling using the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard and DecisionsFirst Modeler, is a great way to design dashboards. Building a decision model focuses on the decisions that must be made by the user of the dashboard, on how they make that decision and on the information and knowledge that they need to make a good one. Doing this before drilling into the specific user interface elements involved keeps the focus on business outcomes not on look and feel – on steak, not sizzle. I’m delighted to announce that we have developed a new partnership to apply this approach in Application Lifecycle Management.
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Decision-Centric, Action-Oriented Dashboards – New Partnership Announced with Assure
March 19, 2014 We are pleased to announce today our partnership with Assure, a leading provider of analytics for Application Lifecycle Management. The new partnership will enable Assure’s customers to utilize decision modeling and decision management technology as a part of the Assure TotalView product. Assure will leverage this unique partnership to provide customers with a decision-centric, action-oriented […]
Some excellent Gartner advice on Decision Management
Lisa Kart, Roy Schulte and Teresa Jones of Gartner recently published Find the Best Approach to Decision Management. It’s a great piece and if you are a Gartner subscriber you should definitely read it and share it around your organization. Even if you are not you should seriously consider getting it from Gartner as it makes a solid case for Decision Management. Obviously I am not going to copy and paste it here but here’s the outline they provide with some commentary on my part about resources here on the blog or at Decision Management Solutions that might help you (Gartner outline in italics, my comments not)
- Introduction
The piece starts off with a nice description of Decision Management. If you want more background on this you could try my books  (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/
March 17 ASM Web Training Discount: Nurture Customer Loyalty With Personalized Messages and Channel Alignment
Web Training, Association of Strategic Marketing March 17, 2014 at 1:00 pm ET Because James is a faculty member , you can receive 50% off the fee. When registering, use priority code 15999 and discount code Q4573634. Register here. More customers are using more channels and with the growth in mobile and other automated channels […]
Upcoming Webinar: Responding in Real-Time
Responding in Real-Time Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT High-volume, high-speed front-line decisions must increasingly be made in real-time with big data and analytics that are actionable and operational. Come to this webcast to hear James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions in this webinar hosted by Oracle discuss his […]
New Article on IIBA – Questions and Answers about Decision Modeling
As a follow-up to the IIBA Webinar on Integrating Decision Modeling into your Requirements Process, James Taylor, CEO Decision Management Solutions, answers questions from the webinar Q&A. Is decision modeling considered as a technique in requirements process? Yes – decision modeling is a technique that lets you explicitly document the decision making you need in […]
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