“A masterful presentation of an important new idea, Enterprise Decision Management (EDM). Like BPM, EDM is destined to provide a focal point where business minds and IT engineers can find common and very fertile ground to plan for success. As the authors say, the business rule approach has evolved and proven itself convincingly over the [...]

“Smart (Enough) Systems delivers razor sharp insight into the power of people and technology to deliver organization impact and competitive advantage.  Taylor and Raden do a masterful job providing depth and color around industry and technology trends, illuminate some hard truths about organizational change and expose the delta between business strategy and operational reality.  They [...]

“This book is an excellent introduction to Enterprise Decision Management. It is sufficiently detailed to help choose which decisions are ripe of automation and to develop the rule sets for them. It explains how EDM fits in the organization and how to interface with existing IT systems. Most sections have brief real-world examples that help [...]

“A must read for anyone that is serious about improving the art and practice of organizational decision-making.”
Mark Clare, Vice President, Parkview Health. Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern University

“The book is more than a primer and handbook, it is an instruction manual that can be used collaboratively by both sides of the organization. The business-oriented sections of the book justify and explain the need for the technical requirements, which ought to make for constructive leadership and better decisions that are understood throughout the [...]

“While growing up, the big rhetorical question I often heard asked was, “If we can send people all the way to the Moon and back, why can’t we… ? (Fill in the blank with a frustration - predict tomorrow’s weather, design a car that runs on something besides oil, make a good omelet…). The same [...]

“Enterprise decision management (EDM) is a leading-edge concept that brings together business intelligence, business rules and business modeling: three areas that have heretofore been progressing along separate paths. By bringing them together, businesses could realize substantial gains through more effective and understandable enterprise decision making, and apply automation where possible to overcome the cost and [...]

“A thorough examination of the business value and technologies enabling decision management, positioned as the next major wave of business process automation. The book is filled with examples that should help the reader learn from the experiences of other organizations in deploying decision management technologies. Traditional business intelligence addresses the delivery of information, but not [...]

“Smart (Enough) Systems blazes a new trail in the crucial territory of finding the business value in information systems. With a well-tuned blend of technology and business, this book is a great read for anyone trying to discover the potential of decision management in the enterprise.
The book contains dozens of helpful case studies that illuminate [...]

“James Taylor and Neil Raden have produced a substantive work that explores what will soon be recognized as the next arena for competitive advantage in our fast-paced global economy. Their central thesis is that organizations must treat decisions as an enterprise asset and take action to increase their “decision yield”. The combined effect of improving [...]