Data Governance: Managing Data as an Asset
I always find it interesting when people pile onto the company’s latest and most popular project or initiative. People love…
Data Science: Equality at Last!
Despite the vast literature around Big Data, the “Data Agents of Change” are still a mysterious bunch. They are called…
Why Context Matters – Forget Real-Time, Achieve Right-Time
The Real-Time Hype Is Filled With FlawsThe hype around big data, social media, and mobility has many folks imagining the…
Decision Management versus Business Rules
We expanded from Business Rules Management (BRM) to Decision Management a while ago, but I still hear some confusion on…
Run IT as a responsive business, beat the cloud vendors at their own game
The days of information technology departments as cost centers are fading fast. These days, IT is either playing a role…
Top 10 Excuses to Avoid Business Rules: #1 You want business users to do what?!
1. You want my business users to do WHAT?Yes, pure fear is the number one reason. There are still a…
Top 10 Excuses to Avoid Business Rules: #2 Business users don’t want it.
2. Business users wouldn’t know what to do with decision automation if they had it“My business users don’t want to…
“Lean is not a destination, it’s a journey.”
Lessons in Quality, Reliability, and Risk Originally published on Hub Designs Magazine May 2012 "Lean" and "Agile" concepts have infiltrated aspects of…
Top 10 Excuses to Avoid Business Rules: #3 Takes too long.
3. It will take too long to get results 3. It will take too long to get resultsThis excuse gets…
Top 10 excuses to avoid business rules: #8 we’re doing fine
#8. We’re doing fine as we are; why fix what isn’t broken?What this normally means is that there are no…
