Quantellia Executive Briefs

• Visual Desktop Modeling: Outlines an approach to combining the power of information – analyzed visually - with human intuition in a new kind of system called a Visual Desktop Modeler. The basic idea: like the architect’s CAD system or the software designer’s UML, to add a visual, intuitive element to technology-assisted decision making at a reasonable cost.
  
  We include an example showing how a desktop visual model is constructed, and how it can be used to address issues like missing and incomplete data, locating errors, collaboration, and interacting with a web-based community of model builders.
  
  If you are looking for an introduction, or are not an expert quantitative modeler, then this Executive Brief is for you.
  

• Closing the Quantitative Modeling Design Gap: Begins by describing the challenges facing today’s quantitative modelers, then discusses how current modeling practices are approaching - and in many cases have exceeded - their “complexity ceiling”.  This meaning that the complexity of the systems involved in decisions, and the timeframes in which decisions must be made, are about to exceed the capabilities of today’s tools and practices.
  
  We also explore the concept of design, showing how design innovations in other disciplines have allowed them to break through this complexity barrier. Simply put, design methodology and practice is long overdue - and hugely valuable - for decision making.
  
  This Executive Brief is targeted at quantitative modeling experts, but can also be read after Visual Desktop Modeling for the next level of detail.

You may also be interested in our article: The New Science of Decision Engineering from Telecom Asia magazine.