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Advice for Business
Follow
the links below to learn about documenting and managing
business rules, and about designing and architecting rulebases. These topics are for subject matter experts
(SMEs), business rule analysts, rule harvesters,
rulebase architects, and knowledge engineers.
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"An exciting new
technology called Business Rules is
beginning to have a major positive impact on
the IT industry - more precisely, on the way
we develop and maintain computer
applications."
C.J. Date, inventor of
the relational database model that
revolutionized the field of computer science
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Macro Decisions (Million Dollar Decisions)
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Macro decisions are strategic or tactical
decisions. I like to call them million dollar
decisions. Examples of macro decisions that can
be automated using business rules: |
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Macro Decisions
- What is the best product that we should
recommend for this customer?
- How do we troubleshoot this problem?
- What is the best solution for this
situation?
- What is our underwriting strategy and
policy?
- What is our refund policy?
- What is our pricing strategy for next year?
- What is our discount policy this year?
- What promotions should we run?
- What should we do to improve improve yields
and revenue?
- Where should we locate the new store?
- Where should we build the plant?
- Where should we build the product?
- Where should we hire the employees?
- What Legal Entity structure should we use
for this company?
- What Legal Entity should we use for this
contract?
- Should we create a new legal entity for this
deal?
- What is the best way to structure this deal?
- How do we design this plant so as to prevent
and contain fires?
- How do we clean up this oil spill?
- How do we minimize tax and maximize revenue
for this contract?
- How should we record these types of
accounting transactions?
- How do we calculate this quarter's tax
provision?
- How do we solve this customer's mission
critical problem right now?
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BIZRULES
Do
you
need help designing your macro business rules? We can help. |
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