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Point-of-Knowledge Architecture: True Business Agility, Incremental...
Excerpted from Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th ed, 2013), by Ronald G. Ross, 162 pp, http://www.brsolutions.com/b_concepts.php Let me use an example to sketch the...
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Why Not Just Use IBM Watson or Similar Platforms for Automating Operational...
Caveat: I reserve the right to change my mind on this at any time and would love to be proven wrong. The key characteristic of many operational business decisions is that they need to be directly...
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Quality and Tolerances in the Knowledge Economy
Quality must be viewed very differently in the white-collar world. The traditional view simply doesn’t fit. In Henry Ford’s day, for example, central to the concept of mass production was...
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Six Succinct Reasons for Business Rules
What business problems do business rules address? My take: 1. Ad hoc rules: Most businesses have no organized approach for specifying their business rules. As a result, business workers often make up...
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Governance, Compliance and Business Rules (Through Young Eyes)
When my older son graduated from college, he worked as an intern for a professional sports team. At the end of his very first day of work he called me, puzzled. “I asked them what my responsibilities...
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Who (or What!) Makes Your Day-to-Day Business Decisions?
Operational business decisions happen every minute of every day in your organization. You’d like to think that business managers can truly manage them. You’d also like to think that the results of...
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‘Business Rule’ Means These 3 Things
Software vendors and others mislead people (badly) about the true meaning of business rule. Let’s set the record straight. The OMG standard SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules,...
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Wanted: A New Knowledge Paradigm
My inner geek gets as excited as the next professional about all the technological innovations adding up to what gurus are calling the digital platform or digital business – or simply digital. This new...
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One-Size Traceability Does Not Fit All!
Compliance in a broad sense means satisfying obligations and delivering on promises. Even high-quality customer service involves compliance of this kind – your products and services are always what you...
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Everyday Always-On Compliance
To speak plainly, most companies have no coherent strategy for integrated compliance. Laws, regulations, contracts, deals, agreements, guarantees, warranties, etc. all represent business obligations,...
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