Category Archives: Decision Making

Major uses of Agentic AI within the Decisioning Context

This topic is posted in our Q&A forum: Read more and share your experience with the current use of Agentic AI in real-world decision-making systems.

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From Process to Decision – From Model to Execution

In June, Stefaan Lambrecht will run several sessions with the above name. Here is his preview: Let’s be blunt: Most BPM initiatives fail.Not because of tooling.Not because of lack of effort. But because they focus on the wrong thing. They … Continue reading

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The Society of Decision Professionals (SDP)

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

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”

“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

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

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

Several important points made by Dr. Meinolf Sellmann:

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Decisions vs Policies

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?

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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