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| 03.10.08
Decision Management Flavors
 By James Taylor
One of the challenges in defining a market space is what to call it. While this may seem like a trivial matter, it affects how people talk about the market and is crucial in giving everyone an agreed shorthand. Years ago some colleagues and I came up with Enterprise Decision Management.
The three words were picked very specifically:
• Decision - because decisions are the key. Not data, not rules, not models but decisions
• Management - because a one time improvement is not what creates success - ongoing management and improvement is key.
• Enterprise - because decisions should be taken in a way that reflects the enterprise's philosophy and approach (after all customers and others react to decisions as though they were enterprise decisions so perhaps you should manage them that way).
People get the "E" word wrong repeatedly - thinking it means that a decision must be deployed across the whole enterprise to be useful or that decisions must be connected and shared. While this kind of enterprise-wide approach has value, it is not essential for successful EDM. The E is about ownership and mindset, not scope of deployment. The D and M, however, are rarely confused by people and this has lead to many other phrases:
• Business Decision Management
• Customer Decision Management
• Integrated Decision Management
• Enhanced Decision Management
• Intelligent Decision Management
And, of course, plain old Decision Management. All of these boil down to the same thing and, in fact, you could use all the names together and talk about "Enterprise ownership of enhanced, intelligent management of integrated customer business decisions" but that would get a bit long.
• EDM implies business decisions
• EDM is typically about customer treatment decisions
• EDM uses integrated data, often about customers, to make decisions
• EDM continually enhances decisions
• EDM delivers "intelligent" or "smart enough" decisions
• EDM is about decision management
It does not matter which flavor you like. It does not matter if you call it Precision Marketing or Marketing Decision Management or Fraud Decision Management or anything else. What matters is that you see the value in automating and improving high-volume decisions using business rules, predictive analytics, adaptive control and optimization.
Those of you who subscribe to the BPM Strategies magazine might enjoy this Q&A on decision management with yours truly and here are some posts where I have discussed this kind of thing before:
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VP of Product Marketing with a passion for the technologies of decision automation. 15 years designing, developing, releasing and marketing advanced enterprise software platforms and development tools. Across the board experience in software development, engineering and product management and product marketing.
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