Monthly Archives: March 2024

Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of 90. Link Read “Thinking, Fast and Slow” for free.

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Challenge March-2024 “Analyzing Employees”

Decision models (similarly to databases) frequently deal with analysis of collections of objects. This month’s Challenge deals with such a situation: you need to help an HR office create a rules-based service to analyze its employees. Each employee  has a … Continue reading

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Continuous Decisioning

Arash Aghlara started a good discussion at LinkedIn: “Many times, based on the decisions that we execute on a specific case, we influence the future of the case. Although the case is the same but, it belongs to an altered … Continue reading

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Focus on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Meinoff Sellmann, a well-known expert in Operation Research (OR), gives this advice: “No surfer has ever surfed a wave by paddling to a place where others are already surfing the tube. In 2024, generative AI is the latest fashion. And … Continue reading

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LLMs and Attributed Provenance

George Keller Hart: “Large language models are potentially our civilization’s self blinding. How? By undermining our 5,000+ year heritage of written language – specifically because LLMs substitute memetics for attribution, breaking the first rule of shared, collective knowledge. Our vast … Continue reading

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Tim Berners-Lee: 35 years of Internet

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, marked the 35th anniversary of its creation (March 12, 1989) with a letter about the big challenges web technology faces as it moves towards its fourth decade of existence. He sees monopoly power … Continue reading

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Arash Aghlara: What is a Decision Model

“A decision model is a roadmap and blueprint of a business decision that depicts a holistic view of how a business decision is made. At its core, this blueprint is an executable artifact that uses multiple composite techniques to bring … Continue reading

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BBC-2024

Building Business Capability (BBC) comes to Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando, Florida, on April 15 – 19, 2024. The conference enhances your ability to advance People, Product, Data, and Knowledge, to build your core leadership skills, to create … Continue reading

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Linear Regression in DMN

In his recent post Bruce Silver wrote: “DMN is not optimized for machine learning algorithms, but it’s good enough for simple problems such as fitting a straight line to a set of data points, known as linear regression.  In this … Continue reading

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Decision Intelligence at Gartner Summit

Decision intelligence will be well presented at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit that starts on Mar 11 in Orlando. In particular, Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, will present “Decision Intelligence and Optimization Across Your Enterprise and Ecosystem”. Here is the … Continue reading

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