Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge - Softcover

Ross, Ronald G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941049043 ISBN 13: 9780941049047

Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC, 1998

Synopsis

Is your current approach really working?Are you sure you’re addressing the right problems in the right ways?Take a few hours to read about the most fundamental innovation in business operations and business computing in decades. It’s not just about IT any more!Decisioning, Requirements, Governance, Knowledge.Radical in its simplicity, this concise, easy-to-read handbook presents a groundbreaking, common-sense approach to solving today’s operational business problems. Find out why current IT methods have broken down and no longer scale.Written by the world’s leading authority on business rules, here are proven answers. Get your company on the road to true agility!New this Edition ...DecisioningCapturing best practicesEnterprise designReally smart systemsBuilding business vocabulariesStructured verbalization for business communicationApplied semantics and concept analysisRe-engineering governanceIntroducing ... General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)Plus all you need to know about ...Business rulesForms of business guidanceFact modelsApplying SBVRInnovations in complianceMore effective process modelsPragmatic knowledge retentionRule management

About this title

About the Author

Ronald G. Ross is recognized internationally as the father of
business rules. He serves as Executive Editor of Business Rules
Community and its flagship publication,
Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences
world-wide. More than 50,000 people have heard him speak; many
more than that have read his books. His popular public seminars are
given through AttainingEdge and in Europe though IRM-UK.
Mr. Ross has served as Chair of the annual International Business
Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the
Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of the two
landmark BRG papers, The Business Motivation Model: Business
Governance in a Volatile World and the Business Rules Manifesto.
He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement
in SBVR.
Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books, including the
ground-breaking, first book on business rules The Business Rule Book
(1994) and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley
(2003). He holds a BA from Rice University and an MS in information
science from IIT.

Review

Organizations, today, are very focused on how they can usefully model, integrate, and improve their operational performance. Every analyst needs to understand just how business rules, business processes, and performance measures work together to structure the enterprise architecture and to define business decisions. There is no one better at this than Ron. His new edition of Business Rules Concepts is a book that every business analyst must read.

Paul Harmon
Executive Editor, Business Process Trends --Paul Harmon Executive Editor, Business Process Trends

Ron's book, updated again based on its widespread use, is a solid, practical and usable guide to understanding and developing the business rules that drive decisioning in your business.

Organizations today must take control of their decision making. They must ensure it is compliant in the face of regulation, agile in the face of uncertainty, and rigorous in its use of information. Operational or transactional decisions are key as these little decisions add up - determining risk exposure, fraud loss, marketing effectiveness, customer relationships and much more. Only if the business rules behind these decisions are understood can organizations succeed.

Helpfully highlighted, Business Rules Concepts is equally useful for someone new to the topic and as a refresher or reference guide for experienced practitioners.

James Taylor
CEO, Decision Management Solutions --James Taylor CEO, Decision Management Solutions

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941049043
• ISBN 13: 9780941049047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158