Mooney: Enterprise operational decisions should be represented as code
Carolyn Mooney · Decision Automation's Bright Future with Nextmv's Carolyn Mooney · Apr 12, 2022 · at 8:13
Carolyn Mooney, CEO and co-founder of decision automation platform Nextmv, explains the core thesis behind treating operational decisions as software code.
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“This should be like how you represent decisions for your operation as code, right? And that can be any operations decision, like how to allocate marketing spend into different channels.”
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