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What the business needs from business rules (a thought on mega trends)

November 9, 2010 by James Taylor
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Last week Carole-Ann posted on 2 MegaTrends at Business Rules Forum 2010. I normally agree with a lot of what she has to say but this time I am going to have to take exception to one of her points. Her second mega trend is that innovation has dried up in the business rules management system (BRMS) market and that this is a bad thing. I... [read more]

Flexible yet permanent – the power of business rules

May 18, 2010 by James Taylor
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Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Syndicated from ebizQ Sapphire, SAP’s big show, is on this week and I have been following the twitter stream (I was invited but couldn’t make it). Merv Adrian (@merv) had a sequence of posts about some SAP customers (Shell and Unilever) that really struck me: Shell … “Once you... [read more]

Risk by risk - a decision-centric approach to risk management

February 10, 2010 by James Taylor
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  Risk management is an important topic for many organizations, especially those in financial services. Most of these organizations acquire risk one customer, one transaction at a time - this customer is not going to be able to pay (risk), this transaction is fraudulent (risk), this deal will not make money in the prevailing... [read more]

Operational decision making as a corporate asset

January 20, 2010 by James Taylor
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I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough) Systems, the book I wrote with Neil Raden, we said Operational Decision Making as a Corporate Asset If operational decisions must be made well for your organization to deliver on its strategy, they can’t be... [read more]

The Decision Model and business rules

November 2, 2009 by James Taylor
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Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at The Decision Model and business rules.Syndicated from ebizQ The new book from Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology, is now available. This book outlines an approach for capturing and managing the... [read more]

RuleSpeak - some useful guidelines for writing rules

April 9, 2009 by James Taylor
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The folks at BR Solutions launched a new website that makes some of the RuleSpeak guideliness for writing good rules available for download at www.RuleSpeak.com. It offers basic RuleSpeak 2.0 guidelines in English, Spanish, German and (soon) Dutch. Ron Ross wrote an article about this in the April issue of the Business Rules Journal... [read more]