Lately, I’m surrounded by dogs: mostly service dogs, who are able to learn sophisticated behaviors and help their handlers in miraculous ways. And so I’ve been reading a bit of dog training theory. Surprisingly,...
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT from OpenAI, which answers your text questions in the style of your choosing (including rock songs, poetry, and screenplays), based on language...
Every once in a while, in every career, we’re faced with a completely new situation, whether it’s choosing a startup idea, pricing a new product, deciding where to live, or selecting a company to...
I recently attended Quantellia’s Getting Started with Decision Intelligence training, where we learned to differentiate between a Causal Decision Diagram (CDD)—a key component of Decision Intelligence (DI)—and a process map (PM). The following is...
This is my final post in this series, where I pull everything together. In Connecting Decisions to Data I introduced a Decision Intelligence case study where a manager needs to make three decisions about...
In the prior post I used a circled red question mark to label some of the decision model elements to indicate that they were missing one of the pieces of information needed to define...
In the last post, I introduced a case study for a product manager. Here, I’ll show you the basics for how to build the corresponding decision model and introduce the Causal Decision Diagram (CDD)...
In my last post I looked at the problems in getting the data to support evidence-based decision making. We get that data through decision modeling, so here I’ll begin a deep dive into Decision...
As data storage and management becomes less expensive, many organizations are tasked with being “data-driven”. What does this mean in practice? For many, using data to inform important organizational decisions is an important goal....
Have you ever wondered just how many decisions you will make today? In your lifetime? Though difficult to measure, researchers have estimated that the average adult makes anywhere from a few thousand to 35,000...
