One of the most persistent sources of confusion we see in organizations that want to improve decision making using AI and/or data science is a quiet category error: treating all decisions as if they...
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...
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 my Connecting Decisions to Data post I introduced a Decision Intelligence case study where a manager needs to make three decisions about a new product’s first production run. Then I identified three decision...
In this post I discuss how Decision Intelligence differs from the current best practices in decision support epitomized by Business Intelligence solutions. My particular focus will be on why the typical “data-to-dashboard” Business Intelligence...
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...
Most conversations between decision makers and data professionals begin back-to-front If you’re a decision maker who wants to make the best use of data and other information resources, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to...
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....
In artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision intelligence, statistics, and science, we use the word “decision” to mean a lot of things. Let’s tease out some distinctions: Decision Type Name Question answered Primary information Source...
Right now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could...
