James Taylor and Neil Raden are out today with their new book, Smart (Enough) Systems, a look at the process of decisioning and a detailed overview of the intersection between business rules, process, business intelligence and measurable business impact. Data and technology you have vs. how you run the business everyday and what people use to make decisions.
I had the chance to preview the book and I think Taylor and Raden do a great job of setting up the arguments and then delivering a lively play by play on how to make technology work in the real world. The book is a great read for anyone struggling with how to make the rubber meet the road and providing information that is relevant about making process an operational discipline. Among the things I like about this book is the passion of the authors (the book starts with a manifesto!), as well as the number use cases and examples they come back to. Many books are great at citing examples from big clients, this book does a great job of painting the use case on an industry level that should make it broadly applicable for near term help and longer term reference. It is kind of nice to read a book with a POV, a how-to, and that also happens to be an interesting read.
Both these guys are well known in the industry and their views can readily be found at conferences and in blogs like James on Decisioning on eBizQ, and Neil on BI in Intelligent Enterprise. I am sure their book will be a success. You can purchase it from Amazon here.
As for the blog, I am back from early month vacation and typical end of quarter excitement and ready to provide some much needed balance to the resident performance Guy. Thanks to Guy for all the heavy lifting over the past several weeks.
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