Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics

9. Process Enablers

As with any new initiative, it is often helpful to develop new processes to support a focus on Decision Management Systems. A process for maintaining your decision inventory over time and a revised software development lifecycle are two such key processes. An understanding of the various patterns for adopting Decision Services can help in planning broader adoption. Developing a culture of experimentation and of fact-based decision-making can ease the acceptance of Decision Management Systems and help bring analytics to bear on them more broadly. Finally, an understanding of the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act- or OODA-loop can be informative.

Managing a Decision Inventory

One of the most important assets for building Decision Management ...