Category Archives: Decision Making

Are you a bad decision-maker?

Posted on May 18, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Cassie Kozyrkov, the Head of Decision Intelligence at Google, just published the article with this title. She writes: The objective of this article is to teach you the most fundamental principle in decision analysis: “The quality of a decision should … Continue reading →

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Speeding up decision-making under COVID-19 pressure

Posted on April 21, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This is the title of today’s article by John Poppelaars: “Due to the lack of trustworthy information, hospitals need to make decisions on bed capacity, staffing, medicine and personal protective gear stock levels under high uncertainty. They need to make … Continue reading →

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Decision Optimization during Covid-19

Posted on April 14, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

During this critical period, technology experts are trying to help as all other professionals. Alain Chabrier from IBM provides examples of how Decision Optimization can be used for optimal nurse scheduling in over-constrained hospital situations, transferring of patients between different … Continue reading →

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AI-Driven Decision Making

Posted on October 30, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This HBR’s article “What AI-Driven Decision Making Looks Like” discusses the evolution of decision-making. Here are the stages: A decision-making model based on human judgement Data-supported decision making A decision-making that utilizes AI A decision-making that combines the power of … Continue reading →

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Opinion: Traditional Rule Engines Outlived their Usefulness

Posted on August 5, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This LinkedIn article “How Traditional Rules Engines Stifle Innovation” states: “AI and advanced analytics are key to life insurance innovation. While the industry tries to make use of these technologies, the insurance application continues to play a central role in … Continue reading →

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Challenge Aug-2019: Stateful Decisioning

Posted on July 30, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Nowadays it’s not enough for decision making applications to simply execute a complex rules-based transaction, forget about it, and wait for the next one. They should be able to learn from already executed transactions and evaluate new facts as they … Continue reading →

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After Software Eats The World, What’s Left? “Decisions”

Posted on June 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A post with this title has been published by Data Decisioning. It refers to Andreessen Horowitz podcast that asks: Is there anything left after software eats the world?  The focus of digitization and automation is on routine work, always in a … Continue reading →

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Data Science vs. Decision Science

Posted on May 9, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Data Science Central posted this interesting comparison: “Data scientist is a specialist involved in finding insights from data after this data has been collected, processed, and structured by data engineer. Decision scientist considers data as a tool to make decisions … Continue reading →

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Similarity in Machine and Human Decision Making

Posted on April 25, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In his new post “Artificial and Human Intelligence” Alain Chabrier from IBM describes decisions the members of his own  family make while packing for vacation. In simple terms Alain nicely explains how we use 3 major Decision Management techniques (Rules, … Continue reading →

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RLDM – Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Conference

Posted on April 16, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Reinforcement learning and decision making have been the focus of research spanning a wide variety of fields including psychology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, operations research, control theory, animal and human neuroscience, economics, and ethology. Key to many developments in the … Continue reading →

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