James Taylor

About the Instructor

James Taylor is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions. James is the leading expert in Decision Management Systems – systems that are active participants in improving business results. Decision Management Systems apply business rules, predictive analytics and optimization technologies to address the toughest issues facing businesses today, changing the way organizations are doing business. James is passionate helping companies develop agile, analytic and adaptive processes and systems. James has over 20 years developing software and solutions for clients and has led Decision Management efforts for leading companies in insurance, banking, health management and telecommunications.

In addition to strategy and implementation consulting, training and workshops, James is an experienced and highly rated keynote and speaker at conferences in the US and around the world. He has spoken recently at Information Management 2011, IBM’s CIO Leadership Exchange, SAS Forum Netherlands, IBM Information on Demand, FICO World 2011, Computerworld’s BI & Analytics Perspective, International Summit 2011 on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, CIO Network’s Leadership Forum, BI 2010, Business Rules Forum, Predictive Analytics World and IBM's Business Analytics Forum.

James’ new book, “Decision Management Systems:  A Practical Guide to Business Rules and Predictive Analytics” (IBM Press 2012) was just released. James also wrote “Smart (Enough)Systems” (Prentice Hall, 2007) with Neil Raden, and has contributed chapters to several books on business rules and business intelligence including “Applying Real-World BPM in an SAP Environment”, “The Decision Model”, “The Business Rules Revolution: Doing Business The Right Way” and “Business Intelligence Implementation: Issues and Perspectives”. James is a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and has experience at FICO, PeopleSoft R&D, and Ernst & Young.