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IBM ODM Webinar on Jan 29

Posted on January 26, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Webinar: Generating ODM Decision Services from the Decision Assistant in IBM Decision Intelligence on Jan 29, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET) Key IBM ODM developers Stephane Mery and Pierre Feillet will explain “how easy it is to … Continue reading →

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Coming soon: “The Decision Factory”

Posted on January 25, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“This book has the potential to do for automated decision-making in business that The Goal (Goldratt) did for supply chain management. The ease with which DeJans and Elam communicate these fundamentally new ideas for making decisions under uncertainty for complex … Continue reading →

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MS OptiMind: From Problem Description to Solution

Posted on January 25, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Microsoft Research has just released OptiMind, “a small language model designed to convert business problems described in natural language into the mathematical formulations needed by optimization software. Built on a 20-billion parameter model, OptiMind is compact by today’s standards yet … Continue reading →

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Gartner To Publish New Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms Next Week

Posted on January 24, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

David Pidsley just announced: “Last summer, I shared that Gartner Says AI Ready For Decision Intelligence Market. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have a new Magic Quadrant scheduled (3 December 2025), which will be the evolution of our Market … Continue reading →

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Challenge Feb-2026 “Trivial Rule”

Posted on January 24, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This challenge was inspired by a post from Ron Itelman. You need to use any rules-based platform or GenAI tool to create an AI Agent that implements the following rule: “Execute a buy order if the current price is lower than … Continue reading →

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Decidability Problem

Posted on January 23, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“We often assume that if we have good data and a good model, a decision can be made. That assumption quietly fails more often than we think,” – wrote Ron Itelman. “By decidability, I mean a boundary condition: A decision … Continue reading →

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“Show me why this loan was approved”

Posted on January 20, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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Decision Timing Mismatch

Posted on January 19, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Adan DeJans Jr. shared another experience from the trenches of real-world decision-making. “The model assumes decisions are made at a clean point in time, with clean information. But reality doesn’t work that way. Data arrives late, decisions are staggered, overrides … Continue reading →

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“Hidden Gem” of Decision Optimization

Posted on January 17, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jacob Feldman wrote a post about the importance of the Solution Pools called “hidden gems” of optimization solvers. However, they usually require programming expertise, while at decision time, it’s subject matter experts, not programmers, who use already tested and deployed … Continue reading →

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The ability to ask the right questions is the key to successful decision modeling

Posted on January 16, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Warren Powell wrote: “What all of us do, and I think it is without exception, is look at problems through the lens of the modeling frameworks that we have been trained in. We are prototypical hammers looking for nails. … Continue reading →

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