Category Archives: Trends

What’s in a name?

Posted on June 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet Analytics, statistics, operations research, machine learning, predictive, prescriptive – which term if any do you prefer to combine all of … Continue reading →

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Peter Norvig Highlights Challenges of ML-based Development

Posted on May 26, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research, presented “State-of-the-Art AI: Building Tomorrow’s Intelligent Systems” at the EmTech Digital conference. He compares traditional software programming to machine learning development and highlights the new challenges of debugging and verifying ML-based systems.

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Three Levels of Problem Solving

Posted on May 25, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This post by Laura McLay mentions three levels for modeling that applies to decision-making: LEVEL 1: You solve the problem. LEVEL 2: You solve the problem in a cost-effective manner (e.g., using heuristics to get a quick solution that is “good … Continue reading →

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Decision Modeling: Tacit Knowledge and Business Rules

Posted on May 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In this post Jacob Feldman talks about two opposite learning directions taken by humans and decision automation: Human Learning: from Rules to Tacit Knowledge Decision Modeling: from Tacit Knowledge to Rules

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Is Analytics losing its competitive edge?

Posted on April 30, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

John Poppelaars just published a paper with this title. He refers to the review recently published by MIT Sloan Management “Beyond the Hype: The hard work behind analytics success“. One of the key findings is that analytics seems to be losing its … Continue reading →

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“Agile” is Dead – Long Live Agility

Posted on April 29, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It started with this 2014 post by Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Dave proposed to retire the word “Agile”. To learn why, you may listen his recent presentation. Below are a few interesting quotes:

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Gartner Backs Decision Modeling in Algorithm Economy

Posted on April 14, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor just published a post, in which he describes a new research Develop Good Decision Models to Succeed at Decision Management produced by Gartner’s analysts Lisa Kart and Roy Schulte and available only to subscribers.

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Smart Rules and Deep Reasoning

Posted on April 13, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Benjamin Grosof, who will be a presenter at DecisionCAMP-2016, talks about the power of smart rules and deep reasoning at this Dataversity paper. “Many enterprises and society in general has a knowledge management problem. There are plenty of technologies for handling the capture and … Continue reading →

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Personal Sim: Most Empowering and Intimate Form of AI

Posted on April 7, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

John Smart is a futurist exploring the intersection of technology and culture. In his new post he explores the five- to-twenty-year future of smart agents and the knowledge bases they use and build. These may be the most socially important … Continue reading →

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Golden Age for AI?

Posted on April 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Economist just published an interesting article “Million-dollars babies“. Here are a few quotes: “…firms compete to hire the smartest AI experts. Technology giants, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Baidu, are racing to expand their AI activities. …In the past universities employed the world’s … Continue reading →

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