Decision Mechanics

Insight. Applied.

  • Services
    • Decision analysis
    • Big data analysis
    • Software development
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • Privacy
  • Hire us

Decision Machines

April 11, 2020 By editor

A recent article on the Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines".

It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences.

I couldn’t agree more. However, I’m not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Share this:

  • Email
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AI, decision-making, decisions, machine learning

Search

Subscribe to blog via e-mail

Subscribe via RSS

Recent posts

  • Data Wrangler
  • The Trolley Problem
  • Counting votes using Excel
  • Accuracy vs precision
  • It’s not because we have insufficient data…

Copyright © 2025 · Decision Mechanics Limited · info@decisionmechanics.com