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Book Summary
Book: The Business Rule Revolution
Learn from an anthology of contributing authors and
experts who share, step-by-step, how to justify and manage the ROI for the BR
Approach. The book covers the business's perspective and the technology perspective. Authors
represent the healthcare industry, financial services experience, state and federal
government experience, and senior practitioners spanning many industries. Overall
Goals for the Book:
- Expose the practicality
of the BR approach through successes in major corporations
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Bring business and IT together with one book
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Widen the BR market to include more corporations, more business audiences
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Present the possibilities that BR Approach can achieve for both business and IT
Table
of Contents: - Intro:
- Why
this book?
- Who is this book for?
- How
is this book unique?
- Who wrote this book (anthology,
collaboration, practitioners, bios of each)
- How
to read this book
- SECTION 1: The Compelling
World of Business Rules
- The Compelling
World of Business Rules
- Business Rules Marketplace
Today and Tomorrow: Based on a Maturity Survey
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Enterprise Architecture: Managing Complexity and Change
- The
Business Architecture of Business Rules Based Enterprises
- SECTION
2: The Business Side of Business Rules
- Business
Engineering and the Role of Business Rules
- A BPM-Driven
Approach to Business Rules
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Modeling the Business: Improving Process Models through Business Rules
- Better
Rules Through Innovative Rule-Authoring Software
- SECTION
3: The Technology Side of Business Rules
- The
Role of the Rule Architect in Organizing Thousands of Rules
- Building
a Business Rules Architecture that Will Stand the Test of Time
- Positioning
the Enterprise for Business Rules: People, Processes, and Organization
- Achieving
Rule Maturity for Competitive Advantage — A Case Study of Equifax
- Implementing
an Enterprise Policy Hub
- Putting the Business Back
in Business Rules
- SECTION 4: Wrapup
- The
Time is Now: The Economic Imperative for the Business Rules Approach
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The Business Rule Revolution
Running
Business the Right Way
by Barbara von Halie and Larry Goldberg
Why buy this
book?
- It is for managers and decision-makers
who make things happen in their organization.
- It
addresses BRs as a leverage for agility, compliance, and corporate intelligence,
as a key mechanism for engineering the business itself.
- It
is not meant to be read cover-to-cover. Business people will focus on section
2. Technical people will focus on section 3.
- Together,
the sections provide a step-by-step management approach that crosses business
and IT barriers.
- Real case studies are written
by real people in well-respected corporations, government agencies, consultancies,
and software vendors.
- Leading technology is
highlighted.
Need more: Read this review
by James Jaylor from Fair Isaac.
Target Audiences:
business VP or directors, CIOs, IT directors And project leaders, practitioners,
and software vendors
Contributing
Authors:
- May Abraham is the
founder of a management consulting firm, Global Knowledge Architects
- Michael
Beck is President of Organization Solutions Inc.,
- Larry
Goldberg is Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners, Inc.
- Barbara
von Halle is the Founder and Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners Inc.
- Neal
McWhorter is a Principal at Enterprise Agility
- Jordan
Masanga is IT Quality Assurance Manager and Technology Officer of Oregon
Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS).
- Art
Moore is a Managing Partner of Clear Systems LLC.
- Linda
Nieporent is BRMS Product Manager at ILOG, Inc.
- John
Semmel is Designer and Developer of Rating and Quoting Applications at
Aetna.
- Brian Stucky is Vice President
of Business Rule Solutions at InScope Solutions, Inc.
- James
Taylor is Vice President of Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) at Fair
Isaac Corporation.
- Gene Weng is
Business Rule Lead in a major American financial service company.
- Larry
Ward is Quality Assurance Project Manager at Oregon Public Employees Retirement
Systems.
- John A. Zachman is CEO of
Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement, Chairman of the Board of Zachman
Framework Associates, and operator of Zachman International.
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| About the Editors |
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| Barbara
von Halle, Executive Editor of the upcoming KPI Business/IT Transformation
Series, is the founder of Knowledge
Partners, Inc. (KPI) and a business rules pioneer. She is responsible for
evolving KPI’s business rule management methods and tools (KPI STEP ™
License) and well as evolving their rule maturity model (KPI RMM™). She
serves as the Chair Person for Brainstorm’s Business Rules Symposium, and
sits on the editorial board of the Business Rules Bulletin (electronic publication)
as well as the BPM Strategies Magazine. In 1996, she received the honored Outstanding
Individual Achievement Award from the International Data Management Association.
She is co-author of The Handbook of Relational
Database Design (Addison-Wesley), which is beyond its 20th printing, co-editor
of The Handbook of Data Management (Auerbach), and co-author of Business
Rules Applied (Jon Wiley & Sons). She served as the leading columnist
for 5 years in Database Programming and Design Magazine and the publisher, Miller
Freeman, often displays “The Best of Barbara von Halle” on their Website . |
| Larry
Goldberg, is Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners, Inc. with over thirty
years of experience in building technology based companies on three continents,
and in which the focus was rules-based technologies and applications. Commercial
applications that he has sponsored, and in which he played a primary architectural
role include such diverse domains as healthcare, supply chain, and property &
casualty insurance. Prior to joining KPI, Goldberg
was Senior Vice President of Sapiens Americas, Inc., and was CEO and founder of
PowerFlex Software Systems, which was acquired in 1999 by Sapiens.
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