When Mark Zangari and I started Quantellia, we began with a market research study to ask “if technology should do one thing that it is not doing today, what would that be?” Fulfilling the...
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,...
No matter whether you pull for Donald or Bernie or are an “occupier” or a “tea partier” or anywhere in between, you have to admit that we have a problem. The system is broken,...
“We need to win more work,” says the CEO. “Can you think through how we could lower our prices to become more attractive to our customers?” A good decision engineer can’t help but ask...
We use the word “decision” to mean two very different things. If I say “I’ve decided that the moon is made of green cheese”, or “I’ve decided that the economy will deteriorate next year”,...
It’s been an incredible last few weeks in the Decision Intelligence world, as we’re seeing an ecosystem emerging with new vendors, articles in IEEE, the New York Times, at HBR, and much more. I’ve...
I’m going to write a series of posts about the core elements of a decision model. This one’s about Levers: simulations of things you can change as you make the decision. We might also have...
Once upon a time there were programmers, but not software engineers. As businesses and other organizations learned the value of this new technology, software engineering emerged as a discipline to derive maximum business value...
The software engineering revolution is happening again. I was a coder before software engineering, and it wasn’t pretty. When we needed to build a new program, we’d get together with the end customer, and...
We’ve been lost in data for half a century. Time to move on, friends.
