Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog

Using EDM to win with operational automation

Charlie Bess over on the EDS Next Big Thing Blog had a great post on Operational Automation will Always Win Out in the End in which he argues that a focus on low cost locations is never going to work...

McKinsey research of better IT management for banks points to EDM

The McKinsey Quarterly just published Better IT management for banks (subscription required). A nice little summary of some research into the IT operations of banks around the world. The report concludes that, rather than traditional IT concerns such as scale...

Here's a way to use business rules to manage offshore development

I saw this post about Parallel Development, Managing Version Control and Offshoring and it made me think about the challenges of developing software using remote resources. It seems to me that outsourcing and self-service have a lot in common so...

Book Review: Smartsourcing

I just finished Tom Koulopoulos's book Smartsourcing - Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing. I first met Tom when he spoke at a conference I attended and I blogged about his sessions - The Road to Agra and Smartsourcing. He...

Some predictions for 2007

Towards the end of last year I asked various people to make some predictions for 2007. Here, in no particular order, is what they said. Interestingly pricing and customer-centricity both came up more than once. Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer...

Book Review: The World Is Flat

I have just finished reading "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. Firstly a health warning - it's a REALLY long book. Even skimming some sections it took me a long while to read it. Overall it is a good...

Here's a way someone is using enterprise decision management in mortgage

A colleague of mine (thanks Mark) pointed out this use of enterprise decision management in the mortgage industry - First American Real Estate Solutions' Vector platform. This platform, described as a "collateral valuation and risk management decisioning engine" has all...

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...

Enterprise Decision Management and important IT trends

I saw this article in Baseline - The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007 - and it struck me how many of them pointed out the need for an enterprise decision management approach. Highlights included: Needing to focus on...

Delphi Business & Process Innovation Summit

I have been attending the Delphi Business & Process Innovation Summit this week and blogging over on ebizQ. Here are the links if you are interested. Live from Delphi - The Road to Agra Live from Delphi - Using Process...