Category Archives: Decision Making

The Society of Decision Professionals (SDP)

Posted on March 28, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) is dedicated to the practice of decision analysis and decision quality. SDP is currently the only certifying body for decision professionals. Here is what Warren Powell wrote about it: “This was such a contrast … Continue reading →

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From Solvers to Decision Factories

Posted on February 24, 2026 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jacob Feldman just posted an article with this title on LinkedIn. Here is the conclusion: “Moving from pure solvers to ‘decision factories’ reflects a broader trend: traditional optimization solvers are maturing into Decision Optimization components embedded within larger Decision Intelligence … 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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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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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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Never Ignore Uncertainty

Posted on November 12, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Several important points made by Dr. Meinolf Sellmann:

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Decisions vs Policies

Posted on October 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The latest post by Adam DeJans Jr. is so important that we decided to reproduce it here. He questions whether we always need a model to make a decision and describes the essential difference between decisions and policies. “A decision … Continue reading →

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Prof Warren Powell: What is a decision?

Posted on October 17, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. W. Powell announced his newest webpage, “What is a decision?” covering these headings: 1)    What is a decision?2)    What types of decisions are there?3)    What does a decision do?4)    We make decisions to solve a problem, but what do we mean by a … Continue reading →

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Decision Agents Today

Posted on October 7, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Right after DecisionCAMP-2025, where James Taylor was the moderator of the Expert Panel, he posted a nice presentation, “Building Decision Agents with LLMs & Machine Learning Models,” about Decision Agents within modern decision intelligence platforms. A brief summary:

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DecisionCAMP-2025 Poll Results

Posted on October 3, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

During DecisionCAMP-2025, we conducted the poll “Using LLM-based tools in the Decision Intelligence Context“. This poll pertained solely to Operational Repetitive Business Decisions. It contained 13 questions about the use of LLMs for the various decision automation tasks. Here are the … Continue reading →

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