Smart Enough Systems

Principal and Co-Founder

James Taylor is a leading expert in Enterprise Decision Management. Prior to co-founding Smart (enough) Systems, Mr. Taylor was a Vice President at Fair Isaac Corporation where he developed and refined the concept of enterprise decision management or EDM. Widely credited with the invention of the term and the best known proponent of the approach, Mr Taylor helped create the emerging EDM market and is a passionate advocate of decision management. Mr. Taylor has 20 years experience in all aspects of the design, development, marketing and use of advanced technology including CASE tools, project planning and methodology tools as well as platform development in PeopleSoft’s R&D team and consulting with Ernst and Young. He has consistently worked to develop approaches, tools and platforms that others can use to build more effective information systems.

Mr. Taylor is an active consultant, speaker and author. He is a prolific blogger, with regular posts at smartenoughsystems.com/wp and ebizq.net/blogs/decision_management as well as guest posts on Fair Isaac's edmblog.com . His articles appear in industry magazines, he has contributed chapters to "The Business Rules Revolution:Doing Business The Right Way" (Happy About, 2006) and "Business Intelligence Implementation : Issues and Perspectives" (ICFAI University Press, 2006), and is the co-author of "Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions " (Prentice Hall, 2007) with his partner Neil Raden .