Cognitive AI vs Statistical AI

Posted on November 7, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Voss was our presenter at DecisionCAMP-2025 in September. You may watch his presentation. Read his latest article, “Why Cognitive AI, and not LLMs, will get us to AGI”. Link

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IDC: “Accelerating enterprise decision intelligence with AI agents”

Posted on November 5, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Here is a link to the white paper, published by IDC in Nov-2025: “Decision intelligence allows enterprises to leverage continuous and intelligent decision cycles, where information flows seamlessly from data collection to execution and feedback. In essence, it is a set of competencies that fully or partially automates all aspects of the decision-making process, resulting in improved decision consistency and speed. The study provided the participants (representing business and IT decision-makers from 311 large organizations across 11 countries and six industries) with clarification that decision intelligence includes the six competencies shown below.” Link

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Forrester 2026 Predictions

Posted on November 4, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The time to fill developer positions will double: (Link)

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MIT Report “State of AI in Business 2025”

Posted on November 3, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

July-2025

LINK

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Master the business problem. Let AI handle the notation.

Posted on November 3, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This is a summary of the latest post by Adam DeJans Jr. “If you’re an operations researcher who’s mad that LLMs can now formulate basic linear programs, you’ve been coasting on syntax for way too long.

The optimization community is having a full identity crisis right now. AI can write LP formulations, handle the mathematical notation, and solve straightforward problems. And instead of adapting, some folks are acting like their entire profession just got invalidated.

If an LLM can replace you, you were already replaceable.

The best practitioners I know? They’re thrilled. They’re using AI to blast through the syntax work and spending their brain power where it actually matters – on business insight, problem framing, and driving operational impact.” Link

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Solvers are like cars: focus on driving in the right direction, before you worry about speed

Posted on October 25, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This is a quote from Geoffrey De Smet’s post, “What stops Operations Research from being widely adopted?” His answers:

  • Fit For Purpose
  • Ease of use
  • Time to market
  • Scalability
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Decisions vs Policies

Posted on October 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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 is an action you take given what you know now. A policy is a rule for deciding over time. Decisions are moments. Policies are patterns.” Link

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 “AI is going to make everything better!”

Posted on October 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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Challenge Oct-2025 “Decision with two objectives”

Posted on October 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This challenge is offered by Dr. Meinolf Sellmann. A freelance webpage developer received a task. A client has a budget of $10,000 and wants a webpage developed with as many features as possible while maximizing the total value of these features. The client leaves the decision of which features to the developer. She wants to delight the client and asks you which features would be best to select. We have the budget constraint and two objectives. Can you devise a rational way to trade them against each other? Link

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Prof Warren Powell: What is a decision?

Posted on October 17, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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 “problem”?
5)    What are the decisions that we can make?
6)    How do we make decisions?
7)    “State variables” are fundamental in dynamic problems, but what is a state variable?
8)    What is the value of information? Link

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