Rules and Compliance Tactics
Summary:
Associated with almost every rule constraining real-world activity is some kind(s) of action taken to enforce it. Is such action(s) part of the rule itself? How should such action(s) be viewed? n this month's 'Premise and Conclusion' column, Ron Ross examines several sample rules to provide answers to these and related questions.
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About our Contributor:
Ronald G. Ross
Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC
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Executive Editor, Business Rules Journal
, and Co-Chair, Building Business Capability (BBC)
Ronald G. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, where he actively develops and applies the IPSpeak™ methodology including RuleSpeak®, DecisionSpeak™ and TableSpeak™.
Ron is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He is the author of ten professional books including the groundbreaking first book on business rules The Business Rule Book in 1994. His newest are:
Ron serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com 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 have attended his seminars and read his books.
Ron has served as Chair of the annual International Business Rules & Decisions Forum conference since 1997., now part of the Building Business Capability (BBC) conference where he serves as Co-Chair. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of its Business Motivation Model (BMM) standard and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.
Ron holds a BA from Rice University and an MS in information science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Find Ron's blog on http://www.brsolutions.com/category/blog/. For more information about Ron visit www.RonRoss.info. Tweets: @Ronald_G_Ross Read All Articles by Ronald G. Ross
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