Decisions Podcast

Decisions Podcast #14, InterACT Lisbon Preview: Russ Schreiber, "Deciding to the Best"

This is the fifth and final in a series of "preview" podcasts for InterACT Lisbon.

It features an interview by Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, with Russ Schreiber, a Vice President in Fair Isaac's Insurance Consulting Practice.  Russ describes his forthcoming presentation at InterACT Lisbon, entitled "Deciding to Be the Best".

Insurers have always focused on the quality of their decisions.  But to survive in an era of intense competition, firms must drive precise, consistent and agile decision making into all parts of the business.  In this session, the Fair Isaac insurance team will share the insights they have gained by helping companies who have decided to be "among the best" – those that are gaining share at the expense of their competitors while maintaining high levels of profitability.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: DecisionsPodcast.No.14.mp3 (6.6MB, mp3)

This is the fifth and final in a series of "preview" podcasts for InterACT Lisbon.

It features an interview by Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, with Russ Schreiber, a Vice President in Fair Isaac's Insurance Consulting Practice.  Russ describes his forthcoming presentation at InterACT Lisbon, entitled "Deciding to Be the Best".

Insurers have always focused on the quality of their decisions.  But to survive in an era of intense competition, firms must drive precise, consistent and agile decision making into all parts of the business.  In this session, the Fair Isaac insurance team will share the insights they have gained by helping companies who have decided to be "among the best" – those that are gaining share at the expense of their competitors while maintaining high levels of profitability.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: DecisionsPodcast.No.14.mp3 (6.6MB, mp3)

Decisions Podcast #13, InterACT Lisbon Preview: Raffi Kassarjian, "21st Century Banking and the Fair Isaac Product Roadmap"

This is the fourth in a series of "preview" podcasts for InterACT Lisbon.

It features an interview by Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, with Raffi Kassarjian, who is Vice President and Leader of Fair Isaac's Business Consulting Group. Raffi is presenting "The 21st Century Banking and the Fair Isaac Product Roadmap" together with Dr. Andy Jennings, who leads the development of Fair Isaac's EDM Applications, including industry standard products such as the TRIAD adaptive control system.

In this session, Raffi and Andy will explore how banks can share and deepen customer insight, and how Fair Isaac's evolving products for financial services will improve banks' ability to build their institutions around the customer.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: DecisionsPodcast.No.13.mp3 (10.5MB, mp3)

Decisions Podcast #12, InterACT Lisbon Preview: Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Machine Intelligence Zooms Forward!

This is the third in a series of "preview" podcasts for InterACT Lisbon. It features an interview by Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, with Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, of Fair Isaac's Research and Development Group. Dr. Hecht-Nielsen will be presenting on the topic of "Thinking Machines", one of the most exotic areas of Fair Isaac’s analytic research is Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen’s groundbreaking work in "thinking machines".

This talk will survey recent accomplishments of his team’s "Chancellor Project" in areas such as conversational response generation and ultra-high-accuracy colloquial speech understanding. Dr. Hecht-Nielsen will also describe his team’s advancements in user-guided automated business document creation. As in past InterACT presentations, this talk will give you a fascinating look at how the underlying technology works, and the far-reaching implications for business and society.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: DecisionsPodcast.No.12.mp3

Decisions Podcast #11, InterACT Lisbon Preview: Rachel Bell, Building a Global Credit Risk Standard

This is the second in a series of "preview" podcasts for InterACT Lisbon. It features an interview by Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, with Rachel Bell, of Fair Isaac's Analytic Science group.

Rachel will be presenting on the topic: "Building a Global Credit Risk Standard." In this podcast, she introduces her session which will look at the challenges that lenders have as they strive for a consistent way of measuring credit risk across multiple geographic markets.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: DecisionsPodcast.No.11.mp3

Decisions Podcast #10, InterACT Lisbon Preview: James Taylor, How EDM Really Works

(Shameless Commerce, though certainly very related to the content of the EDM Blog!)

This interview with James Taylor is the first of several podcasts that preview the upcoming InterACT Lisbon event: "The Smarter Decisions Conference"

Ian Turvill, the host of Decisions, interviews James about his introductory session at InterACT will introduce attendees to Enterprise Decision Management (EDM), the business discipline of giving high-volume, operational decisions greater precision, consistency and agility.

If you attend this session, you will:

• See how your organisation can automate and improve decisions by separating the process of making decisions from your existing business systems
• Get an introduction to different kinds of analytics – descriptive, predictive and decision – and see how they can lead to more precise and profitable decisions
• Share case studies of how companies have applied Enterprise Decision Management across the customer lifecycle to grow more profitably.

This introductory session is intended for business-level decision makers and those looking for an overview.

To sign up to attend InterACT, please click here.

Download: Podcast.No.10.mp3