Book Review: The Only Sustainable Edge

I recently heard John Hagel (who has a blog) present (at the webMethods conference) on the book he wrote with John Seely Brown, "The only sustainable edge". In the book John and John discuss how recent changes in the world...

The problem with programmers

Firstly let me say that not only are some of my best friends programmers but that I have been a programmer, development manager, product manager, architect and methodology author in my career so please don't consider this some marketing guy...

New article on enterprise policy hubs today

I have a new article on BPM Institute today - Why you need an enterprise policy hub. It's an extract of my chapter from The Business Rules Revolution (which I reviewed here) so if you like it, buy the book....

Where has all the risk gone?

A couple of the blogs I read mentioned this LA Times article today - Insurers learn to pinpoint risks -- and avoid them. In particular RiskProf and Workers Comp Insider covered the article. RiskProf felt that the article missed the...

One complaint about the Long Tail

Having reviewed "The Long Tail" and written a long piece about how decision management can help build the systems the Long Tail requires, now I have to register a complaint. In the book Chris talks about the limitations of physical...

Hits and Niches

"The era of one-size-fits-all is ending, and in its place is something new, a market of multitudes", so says Chris Anderson (who blogs at www.longtail.com) in his recent book "The Long Tail". The phrase "The Long Tail" comes from a...

Book Review: The Long Tail

I have just finished reading "The Long Tail" in which Chris Anderson does a nice job of introducing some key concepts that are redefining business in the Internet era. As he says "The era of one-size-fits-all is ending, and in...

Gathering requirements, and rules

I saw this post on gathering requirements by Scott Sehlhorst today. Now I don't think requirements are the same as business rules (particularly given the nature of business rules is to change) and that one should keep them separate and...

New Podcast with Donald Light of Celent

Insurance is an industry that is adopting Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) very rapidly. In the latest edition of Decisions, Fair Isaac's podcast on all matters relating decision automation, Donald Light of Celent Communications address a number of questions relating to...

Vote on the blog design

I thought it would be fun to get a quick vote on the new blog design. Let me know what you think.