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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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Moving away from “vibe decisioning”

Posted on January 11, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

David Pidsley, a decision intelligence leader at Gartner, posted today this warning: “GenAI tools instantiate flaws across business decision networks with frightening efficiency when requirements are ambiguous. They will cause growing concerns about uneven decision quality, decision debt (inferred decision … Continue reading →

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More about Decision Reasoning Traces

Posted on January 10, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Tony Seale: “Real decisions are never made in a single system. They are made by stitching together signals from CRM, finance, operations, support systems, policy documents, Slack threads – often with human judgement applied at the seams. The most valuable … Continue reading →

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2025 LLMs in Review by Peter Norvig

Posted on December 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Norvig wrote today: “I am now done comparing three LLMs to my own coding on the Advent of Code problems. The LLMs did great! They couldn’t have done it last year.” Here are his main conclusions after asking 3 … Continue reading →

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2025 LLM Year in Review by Andrey Karpathy

Posted on December 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Andrey Karpathy published a not-too-technical review of technical developments in generative AI this year: “2025 was an exciting and mildly surprising year of LLMs. LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected … Continue reading →

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Causal Understanding

Posted on December 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today Pieter van Schalkwyk posted “Decision Traces for Agentic Operations: Why Agents Need Operational Memory“. Here are just a few quotes: True agency requires causal understanding: Not just knowing what happened, but why it happened and what could happen next. … Continue reading →

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Optimization as a Decision Intelligence tool

Posted on December 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“Does having a working optimization model guarantee business impact? The uncomfortable answer is no. You can follow every best practice, deploy on the latest technology, and satisfy every stakeholder requirement, and still fail to drive the outcomes your company needs. … Continue reading →

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