A White Paper on Customer Decision Engines

Ian pointed me to this white paper today - The Customer Decision Engine (free registration required). Unica published this about a year ago but I just saw it today. It's an interesting paper and prompted me to blog about this...

Data Mining Survey

I got an email from Karl Rexer over at Rexer Analytics over the weekend. Karl is doing a survey on the analytic behaviors, needs and preferences of data mining professionals. If you are interested in taking the survey, go to...

Tom Davenport and the business analytics concours

Some colleagues recently attended The Business Analytics Concours Research Summit at the Babson Executive Conference Center - Wellesley, MA. I bring this up both because I think it is an interesting program and because Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris were...

Shameless Commerce - Come to InterACT!

Fair Isaac's big event - InterACT - is just three weeks away. InterACT has more than 100 sessions on analytics, collections, customer centricity, fraud, collections & recovery and more. There are sessions targeting financial services, insurance, retail, telecom and healthcare....

Decisions Podcast #17, InterACT San Francisco Preview: Brad Jolson, Fair Isaac, "Predicting Bankruptcy using Transaction Analytics"

(Posted by the Guest Blogger, and Host of the "Decisions" Podcast, Ian Turvill.) InterACT, the Smarter Decisions Conference, is coming! One of the most promising areas in analytics involves using transaction-level data to improve decisions. Transaction analytics are already a...

Personalization (again)

Over the last couple of days I have been pointed towards a couple of items that made me think some more about personalization and the fit of enterprise decision management, EDM, with the kind of targeting and focusing that personalization...

Decisions Podcast #16, InterACT San Francisco Preview: Susie Upton, WestPac Banking Corporation, "The Impact of Customer-Level Scoring Throughout the Lifecycle"

(Posted by the Guest Blogger, and Don LaFontaine Devotee, Ian Turvill.) InterACT, the Smarter Decisions Conference, is coming! One of the areas many financial services companies are exploring is customer-level management. There are a host of benefits to be gained...

Competing on Analytics - Book Review

DM Review just published a shorter version of my book review for Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Tom Davenport. You can read the original review here, buy the book here and comment about the review here!...

More on Model-Driven Development

Diego Lo Giudice of Forrester published The State of Model-Driven Development recently. This is a well-written paper and does a nice job covering Model Driven Development of which it says "Forrester expects model-driven development (MDD) to play a key role...

Decisions Podcast #15, InterACT Lisbon Preview: Rajiv Sabharwal, ICICI Bank, "Road to Best"

(Posted by the Guest Blogger, and aspiring Voice of God, Ian Turvill.) InterACT, the Smarter Decisions Conference, is coming! InterACT is a global conference, and one of the most exciting aspects is hearing case studies from companies around the world....