Category Archives: Decision Intelligence

IBM ODM Webinar on Jan 29

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”

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

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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Decidability Problem

“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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Moving away from “vibe decisioning”

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

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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Causal Understanding

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

“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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DecisionCAMP-2026

The year 2026 is swiftly approaching. We’ve just published a new website for DecisionCAMP-2026. This is a major annual event devoted to Decision Intelligence Technologies. It is scheduled to take place online from August 26 to 28, 2026. It is … Continue reading

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Aristotle & Dantzig: How a 2000 year old ethos aligns with 20th century mathematics

This post is about a bridge between Aristotelian ethics and George Dantzig’s work. Here is where these two great thinkers align:– Aristotle: Practical wisdom is the ability to deliberate well about what is possible.– Dantzig: Optimization is the discipline of … Continue reading

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