What's the Difference between a Behavioral Rule and Decision Rule

A video podcast with Gladys S.W. Lam

Following up on last month's Business Rules 101, Gladys takes things a step further with this short video and column about two different types of business rule.

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Preface to Business Knowledge Blueprints: Achieving Shared Understanding Using Concept Models

By Ronald G. Ross

In the computer age, we've limped along literally for a human lifetime without blueprints for business knowledge and the vocabulary used to communicate it. How well is that working out?

If you have any doubt, do a quick internet search on all the problems associated with 'data quality' and their costs. Or look at the still dismal success rates of IT projects.

A business knowledge blueprint, whose core component is a concept model, permits you to deeply analyze your concepts, your vocabulary, and your business knowledge. In this month's column, Ron Ross explains all the critical reasons you need that blueprint.

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Applying Euler Diagrams and Venn Diagrams to Concept Modeling

By David Lyalin, PhD

In this article, Dr. David Lyalin introduces Euler diagrams and Venn diagrams as business analysis instruments. Application of these visual schematics to support development of vocabulary and concept models can help business analysts deal with the complexity of relationships between concepts. It also can help contributing subject matter experts overcome a perplexity commonly observed with intricate aspects of concept modeling. Visualizing typical relationships between concepts with circles that include, exclude, and intersect each other results in simple visual schematics that assist in conducting concept analysis and modeling activities. An implementation example is provided, based on a vocabulary development in the public health domain of immunization information systems.

DISCLAIMER: The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Can You Trust Your Data?

By Dagmar Cole

Some years ago, Dagmar Cole was assigned the task of working on a global marketing data warehouse for a company that was losing money. After the new year, the data warehouse metrics indicated a huge profit during December. With an analyst's sense of caution about such uncharacteristic good news, she warned the executives, "This number does not make sense." Find out how Dagmar's further careful analysis saved the company from a serious mis-step … and, with the staff, earned her the title of The Villain Who Cost Us Our Annual Bonus.

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