A couple of links today made me think about agility in the context of BPM and SOA. My friends at Zapthink pointed me to a Tom Sullivan post on backlogs as a measure of success which caught my eye because the use of decision management technologies often reduces IT backlogs (by empowering business users - [...]

Business Process Management (BPM) - The Role of the Decision
Larry does a nice job pointing out why the business motivation model from OMG should have decisions rather than rules.
(tags: decision business motivation models)

Strategy, Tactics, Operations and Doctrine: A decision-language tutorial » ribbonfarm » experiments in refactored perception
Great piece on the challenges of the various ways [...]

Neil sent me an interesting link yesterday - Less (Information) Is More in which the work of Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max Planck Institute in Germany is discussed. Gerd has a new book “Gut Feelings” that sounds like it has a lot in common with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (reviewed here). One of the interesting [...]

TomDebevoise.com » The Business Case for Decision Management
Nice article by Tom Debevoise on decision management examples, especially how they complement BPM. He calls it Business Decision Management but it means the same as Enterprise Decision Management.
(tags: business decision management enterprise edm bdm tom debevoise)

Having posted some initial thoughts on RuleBurst’s acquisition of Haley, I was lucky enough to get some time with Peter Still, VP Strategy. Peter and I spent an interesting hour discussing the merger and the combined companies plans so I thought I would share some of my thoughts.
The first interesting thing to note is that, [...]

What kinds of problems lend themselves to EDM?
A post by me on the kinds of problems that lend themselves to EDM and a better taxonomy for this
(tags: edm enterprise decision management edmblog)

An interesting post caught my eye recently - Should we still call it Application Development? This seems like an interesting question, particularly when you start considering the decomposition of the application that has taken place over the last decade. Not so long ago, applications (especially enterprise applications) were monolithic. They handled their own data, user [...]

ILOG BRMS Blogs » On Unified Rules and Processes
Dan Selman’s response to the JBoss team’s post on integrating rules and process.
(tags: bpm business process management rules decision service jboss ilog)

Jim Sinur, formerly the rules guru over at Gartner and now CSO At Global 360 has a blog to which he has started posting. He already has three posts I found interesting:

The Grey Wave is Coming: BPM has to HelpAutomating decisions is also critical when you start thinking about the impending wave of retirement. Not [...]

Timo Elliott of the BI questions blog had a “prediction” about 2008 this month - 2008: From Business Automation to Business Optimization?. Timo makes some great points and I agree with his premise that past is about automating business processes and the future is going to be about optimizing the business, in part by ensuring [...]