First Look – FICO Xpress and Business Rules
Optimization is a mathematical process for finding the best decision for a given business problem – usually highest profit, lowest…
R project named in Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Editor’s Choice Awards
Intelligent Enterprise has announced its 2010 "Editors Choice" Awards, and the R project is included as one of twelve "Companies…
Economist or Iconomist?
Have you heard the joke about economists? Most of them are saying iconomist seeing the 2009 global credit crisis. As…
Defining Analytics: Analytics
Following-up to my blog 'Just Tell Me What I'm Doing', this is the third in a series of posts that…
2010 – Old Decade, New Decade
Let’s look back at the last ten years of applying enterprise performance management methodologies, and then speculate about their…
First Look – Quantivo
I got a briefing from Quantivo recently. This is a company focused on behavioral analytics – uncovering patterns within the…
Targeting readers who hate my book
Here's someone named R. Hunt reviewing my book on Amazon. This book was not only boring, I also didn't learn…
Decision points
My friend Jerome had a post this week on finding decision points – the spots in a business process where…
Risk by risk – a decision-centric approach to risk management
Risk management is an important topic for many organizations, especially those in financial services. Most of these organizations acquire…
BI Software Makes Money
Business Intelligence isn't just about seeing how many cans of beans you sold last month. It's about figuring out how…
