Category Archives: Trends

It’s time to trade rule technology for state of the art AI?

Posted on April 3, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Five years ago Paul Haley expressed his frustrations with production rule technology (to which he was one of the major contributors) because of its inability to perform deduction. He wrote that rule vendors should stop “dressing up a procedural  language!” … Continue reading →

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Emmanuel Macron about AI and GAFA

Posted on April 2, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, laid out a new national strategy for artificial intelligence in his country. The French government will spend €1.5 billion ($1.85 billion) over five years to support research in the field, encourage startups, and collect data … Continue reading →

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Management Decision Market – Global Forecast to 2022

Posted on March 28, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Research and Markets published a report about the current and future state of the DM market. “The Management decision market size is expected to grow from USD 3.09 billion in 2017 to USD 6.18 billion by 2022, at a CAGR … Continue reading →

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Questioning “Best Practices”

Posted on February 21, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Scott Ambler, one of the initiators of the agile approach to software development, wrote an article that questions the term “Best Practice”: A very popular term within the IT community is “best practice”. It’s a wonderful marketing term, how could … Continue reading →

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The Walls Have Ears

Posted on February 20, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Here is a quote from a Gizmodo’s article “The House That Spied on Me“: “In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could … Continue reading →

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Andrew Ng launches $175M AI Fund

Posted on January 30, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Andrew Ng is known as the founder of the Google Brain, co-founder of Coursera,  and Baidu’s chief scientist (he also was a presenter in one of our early Decision Camps). Today Andrew Ng is one of the most recognizable names … Continue reading →

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No-code software democratises application development

Posted on January 25, 2018 by jacobfeldman

Alan Trefler presented “The next AI frontier – software that writes software” at the World Economic Forum. In particular, he wrote: “The foundational knowledge to create self-writing, self-evolving software exists today… For businesses, this means that workers in different roles can … 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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Is Bigger Better?

Posted on January 8, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It is highly likely that the next wave of innovation in new technologies and new companies will happen right under the noses of big companies operating at what the public markets think of as peak (earnings) potential. What is the best … Continue reading →

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“Sorry humans, you had a good run”

Posted on December 14, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“Chess changed forever on Dec. 6, 2017. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. After AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player a year ago, the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated chess engine. Stockfish, which for most top players is their go-to … Continue reading →

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