Category Archives: Decision Modeling

Sales Promotions – After Challenge Discussion

Posted on February 3, 2018 by mikeparishcorticon

While it is certainly possible to define database structures to represent sales promotions it may be better to use rules or decision tables to support the wide variety and frequent change that seems to occur in the real world. Continue reading →

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Decision Model for Order Promotions

Posted on January 20, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our Jan-2018 Challenge deals with a popular business decision problem:  help merchants to define various promotions for their sales orders and to automatically decide which orders are eligible to which promotions. A simple example of promotion: reduce the total cost of … Continue reading →

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Core DMN Components

Posted on January 16, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

According to James Taylor, “The vast majority of the business logic in a decisioning system can be defined using the two core DMN components: Decision Requirements Diagrams structure decision problems, break them into coherent pieces. They show where data is … Continue reading →

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BPM 2018 Predictions from Top Influencers

Posted on January 11, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today the term “BPM” hardly represents a pure Business Process Management as along with process automation it is trying to cover decision management, case management, digital transformation, and even machine learning and blockchain. So, it is especially interesting to read … Continue reading →

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How to Succeed with AI: James Taylor’s advice

Posted on November 13, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor just published a new post about AI: “AI is a decision-making technology. As such it is a powerful complement to Decision Management – something to be considered alongside business rules and analytics, and integrated into a coherent decision model. ” To … Continue reading →

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About DecisionCAMP-2018

Posted on November 2, 2017 by jacobfeldman

The DecisionCAMP-2017 became a major technical decision management event of 2017. Next year DecisionCAMP will be held in Luxembourg in the mid of Sep-2018. We will join the Logic for AI Summit that will bring together several international conferences and workshops … Continue reading →

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Forget Processes, Think Decisions

Posted on October 20, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter K.J. Kalmijn from Atos, Netherlands just published an article with this title. “Most organizations still run multiple rigid variations of their core processes. Even ‘dynamic processes’ are predominantly overly complex with multiple paths and complicated routing. This makes them … Continue reading →

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Seven Reasons to Model Your Business Decisions

Posted on October 12, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jan Purchase just published an article “Decision Modeling: The Bottom Line“. In particular, he writes: “Decision Models are not just about requirements. The precision of the decision logic view means that decision models can be directly executed. Therefore they can be tested … Continue reading →

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Five V’s of Decision Management

Posted on October 3, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A new article by Koen Smit discusses 5 characteristics of operational decision management: Volume corresponds to the number of times a decision is made within a certain time period Velocity represents how fast a decision must be taken Variety corresponds to the … Continue reading →

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MWD Advisors Report “Decision Management Drives Disruption”

Posted on September 11, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Derek Miers from MWD Advisors just published a new report devoted to DMN. He writes: “With decision modelling, you now have way of visualising the future – using models to express strategies, goals, processes, policies, rules and constraints – and then driving … Continue reading →

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