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The Four Dimensions of Semantic Quality: A Business View of Data and Data Quality By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2024 | Vol. 25, Iss. 4

The Five Basic Skills of Discovering and Expressing Rules By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2024 | Vol. 25, Iss. 3

The Urgent Need for New Rule Platforms in Business & Government By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2024 | Vol. 25, Iss. 2

Being Unambiguous Beyond Reasonable Doubt in Expressing Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2024 | Vol. 25, Iss. 1

Being Complete in Expressing Rules By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 12

Being Factual in Expressing Rules By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 11

Being Declarative in Expressing Rules By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 10

The Gold Standard in Expressing Rules: Being Practicable By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 9

About Definitional Rules: Rules Count! By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 8

Being Violation-Aware: Five Questions for Behavioral Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 7

The Two Fundamental Kinds of Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 6

What Rules Are By Ronald G. Ross May 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 5

What Rules Do for Us By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 4

Parking Consternations: Rules, Rules, Rules By Ronald G. Ross Mar 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 3

Preface to Rules — Shaping Behavior and Knowledge By Ronald G. Ross Feb 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 2

More on Business Ownership of Vocabulary By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2023 | Vol. 24, Iss. 1

Disambiguation Beyond a Reasonable Doubt By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 12

Ambiguity and Its Cure By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 11

Data, Facts, Messages, and Ambiguity By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 10

As the Agile Churns By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 09

Agile Death Spirals and Data By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 08

A Better World View for Data & Knowledge By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 07

Why Are We So Obtuse About the Meaning of 'Data Quality'?! By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 06

What Else Should Rule Platforms Be Doing? Tying in More Directly to Business Governance By Ronald G. Ross May 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 05

What Else Should Rule Platforms Be Doing?
Addressing Sentiment and Human Discretion Better By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 04

What Else Should Rule Platforms Be Doing?
Where DMN and Decision Models Fall Short By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 03

What Else Should Rule Platforms Be Doing? Eliminating Programmer Workload By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 02

Opportunities in the Rules Space: What Else Should Rule Platforms Be Doing? By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 01

What Does It Take to Message Effectively? The 'Reserved for Green Car' Case Study By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 11

Ownership of Vocabulary vs. Ownership of Data: A Fresh Look from the Business Messaging Perspective By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 10

Rethinking Your Business Messaging Space: Knowledge Alignment By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 9

What Is Data Science, Really? By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 8

Speaking Plainly: Organizational Silos in Perspective By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 7

ConceptSpeak™ (Part 5): Representing the States of Things By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 6

ConceptSpeak™ (Part 5): Representing the States of Things By Ronald G. Ross May. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 5

ConceptSpeak™ (Part 4): Nouns Based on Verbs — Objectifications & Roles By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 4

ConceptSpeak™ (Part 3): Verb Concepts in Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 3

ConceptSpeak™ (2): Special-Purpose Elements of Structure for Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 2

ConceptSpeak™ (1): Elements of Structure in Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 1

Diagramming Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 12

The Pragmatics of Creating Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 11

Confessions of a Concept Modeler By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 10

Concept Models: Definitions, Terms, and Wordings By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 09

From Concepts to Business Knowledge Blueprints: What Concept Models Are By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 08

Concept Models: Who Are They For? By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 07

Concept Models:
Stable Foundation for Continuous Agility By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 06

Empowering People with Core Business Knowledge: Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross May 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 05

Root-Cause Solution for Problems with Data Quality & Silos: Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 04

Blueprinting Business Knowledge: Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 03

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Authorizations By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 03

Preface to Business Knowledge Blueprints: Achieving Shared Understanding Using Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 02

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Fundamental Principles for Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 01

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Enforcement Levels for Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 12

The Problems Addressed by Business Rules: Foreword to Business Rules: Management and Execution By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 11

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Violations of Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 10

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Kinds of Guidance By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 9

SBVR Speaks on Rules: Rules and Advices By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 8

Flash Points: Business Rules, Events, and Integrity By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 7

The Great Rules Impedance Mismatch By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 6

Go To? No, Come From! — The True Tale of Business Rule Software By Ronald G. Ross May 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 5

What Happens When Behavioral Business Rules and Decision Logic Collide? By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 4

How Good Are You at Business Rule Analysis? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 3

Integration Without Business Rules. Really?! By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 2

Conceptual Model vs. Concept Model: Not the Same! By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 1

Why 'Fact' Isn't Used in the Business Agility Manifesto By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 12

Five Reasons to Model Your Company's Value Chain By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 11

Business Agility vs. Organizational Agility: How the Business Agility Manifesto Sees It By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 10

Obligations Are Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 9

Reconfiguration Agility By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 8

What Business Knowledge Is By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 7

Concept Models vs. Data Models By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 6

The Prime Directive: Anchor Point of the Business Agility Manifesto By Ronald G. Ross May 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 5

What Gaps Does the Business Agility Manifesto Address? By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 4

Whirlwind Tour of the Business Agility Manifesto By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 3

Agree/Disagree? IT Departments Should be Evacuated By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 2

Agree/Disagree? Deep Subject Matter Expertise Irrelevant By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 1

Agree/Disagree? Empowerment Key to Business Agility By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 12

Agree/Disagree? Digital Mind Essential for Business Analysts By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 11

The Story of Al's Spreadsheet and Absent Brains By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 10

Aligning Multiple Definitions: Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 9

Disambiguation by Context: Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 8

Capturing the Essence of Concepts: Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 7

The Kick-Off Word in Great Business Definitions: Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 6

The New Knowledge Paradigm: Challenges for Operational Excellence By Ronald G. Ross May 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 5

The New Knowledge Paradigm: Enabling Operational Excellence By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 4

Who (or What!) Makes Your Operational Business Decisions? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 3

Agree/Disagree? 'Good Enough' Quality Will Do By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 2

Seven Common Myths About the Zachman Architecture Framework By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Jan. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 1

Being Business-Friendly About the Life of Business Things By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Dec. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 12

Structured Business Vocabulary: Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Nov. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 11

The Architectural 'Why' of a Business Capability: Business Mission and Business Goals By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Oct. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 10

Architectural Scope vs. Project Definition By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Sep. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 9

General Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 3

Business Architecture, Business Requirements, and System Design Building Business Capabilities By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 2

What Is the Future for Processes? By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 1

Measuring Quality and Defects in the Knowledge Economy By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 12

BPM and the Knowledge Economy By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 11

What Is a Business Architecture? Business Architecture By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 10

Straight Talk (Part 4) The Big Picture By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 9

Straight Talk (Part 3) Business Architecture By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 8

Straight Talk (Part 2) The Good News in Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 7

Straight Talk (Part 1) Major Challenges Facing Your Business By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 6

Six Business Problems the Business Rule Approach Addresses By Ronald G. Ross May 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 5

What the Business Rules Group (BRG) Has to Say About Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 4

Q&A: What We're Learning from Decision Engineering — Part 3 By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 3

Q&A: What We're Learning from Decision Engineering — Part 2: Retiring the Term 'Knowledge Worker' By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 2

Q&A: What We're Learning from Decision Engineering — Part 1: Tackling White-Collar Work By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 1

Special Evaluation Specifications for Decision Rules: How to Support Very Smart, Very Friendly Business Decision Systems By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 12

The Two Fundamental Kinds of Business Rules Where They Come From and Why They Are What They Are By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 11

What Is a Concept Model? By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 10

More Meta Matters Probing the Gamut of Meta By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 9

Meta Matters Meta Here. Meta There. Meta Everywhere? By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 8

Decision Tables and Integrity: Introducing Restrictions By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 7

Designing Decision Tables Part 3: Representing Meaning (Semantics) By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 6

Designing Decision Tables Part 2: Fundamental Styles By Ronald G. Ross May 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 5

Designing Decision Tables Part 1: Basics By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 4

What Kinds of Decisions Are Appropriate for Decision Analysis? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 3

Smart Business Analysis Don't Drown in Decisions By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 2

Three Major Myths of the Business Decision Space — And Why They Matter to Business Analysts By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 1

Do Business Rules Define the Operational Boundaries of an Organization? By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 12

The Why Engineer™ The Why Button By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 11

Modeling Decision Structures Part 2: Question Charts (Q Charts^™) and Hybrid Diagrams By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 10

Modeling Decision Structures Part 1: Kinds of Decision Dependencies By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 9

Modeling Decisions Simulated vs. "For Real" Decisions By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 8

Decision Rules vs. Behavioral Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 7

Agile Development of Business Rules: Is It Possible? By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 6

Re-Cycling Shut-DownLet's Face It — Some Rules Are Just Silly! By Ronald G. Ross May 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 5

Tabulation of Lists in RuleSpeak® — Using "The Following" Clause By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 4

Requirements are Rules: True or False? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 3

Breaking the Rules: Breach Questions By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 2

Business Rules, Business Processes, and Business Agility: Basic Principles — Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Business Rules Manifesto (Part 3) By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 1

Business Rules, Business Processes, and Business Agility: Basic Principles — Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Business Rules Manifesto (Part 2) By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 12

Strategy for Business Solutions: Part 3: Adjusting and Fine-Tuning a Strategy By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Nov. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 11

Strategy for Business Solutions: Part 2 — Business Mission and Business Goals By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Oct. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 10

Strategy for Business Solutions: Part 1 — The Policy Charter By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Sep. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 9

Business Rules, Requirements, and Business Analysis: Basic Principles — Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Business Rules Manifesto By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 8

Strategy-Based Metrics for Measuring Business Performance By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Jul. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 7

How Business Processes, Strategy, and Business Policies Relate By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 6

Business Processes: Better with Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross May 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 5

Business Policies, Business Rules, and Rulebook Management: Let Us Be Well-Governed By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 4

What's Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 2: Strategy for a Business Solution By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 3

What's Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 1: Creating True Business Solutions By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 2

Concept Model vs. Fact Model vs. Conceptual Data Model: Just a Matter of Semantics? By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 1

Business Rules: Basic Principles By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Dec. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 12

Know-How Models: How Business Rules, Decisions, and Events Relate in True-to-Life Business Models By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 11

Business Analysis with Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Oct. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 10

How Business Processes and Business Rules Relate By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 9

Decision Analysis (Part 3): Defining Scope By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 8

Decision Analysis (Part 2): The Basic Elements of Operational Business Decisions By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 7

Decision Analysis (Part 1): What Kind of Decisions? By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 6

How Long Will Your Fact Model Last? — The Power of Structured Business Vocabularies By Ronald G. Ross May 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 5

More on the If-Then Format for Expressing Business Rules: Questions and Answers By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 4

Operational Business Decisions Whose Decisions Are They Anyway? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 3

The Anatomy of Decisions The Business-Rule View By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 2

Why Rulebook Management? Because Software Requirements and Business Rules Simply Aren't the Same! By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 1

Introducing Question Charts (Q-Charts^™) for Analyzing Operational Business Decisions: A New Technique for Getting at Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 12

Agility Based on Business Rules It's Just Common Sense By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 11

Five Tests for What Is a Business Rule? By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 10

Can a Business Rule Be Enforced Differently in Different Contexts? By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 9

Business Rules vs. System Design Choices By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 7

Four Useful Constructs for Developing a Structured Business Vocabulary: Special-Purpose Elements of Structure for Fact Models By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 6

Eight Things You Need to Know About Fact Types -- Bringing Verbs into Structured Business Vocabulary By Ronald G. Ross May 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 5

Business Vocabulary: The Most Basic Requirement of All By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 4

What Is a Business Rule? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 3

CRUD in Business Rules: Accident-Prone Decision Logic By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 2

The Point of Knowledge By Ronald G. Ross Jan 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 1

When is an Exception Really an Exception? The Business Rule Principles of Accommodation and Wholeness By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 12

Verb-ish Models for Verbalization: Give Us Back Our Verbs! By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 11

From Rulebook Management to Business Governance: Where Business Rules Fit By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 10

What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 9

When Is a Door Not a Door? ~ Basic Ideas of the Business Rules Paradigm By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 8

General Rulebook Systems (GRBS): What's the General Idea? By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 7

Becoming Strategy-Driven: The Policy Charter By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 6

Product Quality and a Longer-Term View: A 'Simple' Matter of Business Policies By Ronald G. Ross May 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 5

RuleSpeak® Sentence Forms: Specifying Natural-Language Business Rules in English By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 4

The Rulebook: To Play Ball You Need Rules By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 3

Extreme Business Agility (Part 6): A Manifesto-in-Progress on the Semantic Re-Engineering of Products By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 2

Extreme Business Agility (Part 5): The Optimal Edge of Business Performance By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 1

Extreme Business Agility (Part 4): Change Deployment Hell By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 12

Becoming Strategy-Driven: Moving Beyond the Tired Notion of 'Business Alignment' By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 12

Extreme Business Agility ~ Part 3: Examples of Non-Agile vs. Agile Business Capabilities By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 11

Extreme Business Agility ~ Part 2: A Semantic Approach to Re-Engineering Your Company's Products By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 10

Extreme Business Agility — Part 1: A Value Chain for Re-Engineering Your Company's Products By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 9

My Son, Business Rule Analyst — Governance and Compliance Through Young Eyes By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 8

Rules vs. Processes (Again) — Part 2: Now for Events By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 7

Rules vs. Processes (Again) — Part 1: There's Simply No Need for Confusion By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 6

Legacy Modernization, Semantics, and the Knowledge Economy ~ Have You Connected the Dots Yet?! By Ronald G. Ross May 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 5

The Emergence of SBVR and the True Meaning of "Semantics": Why You Should Care (a Lot!) ~ Part 2 By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 4

The Emergence of SBVR and the True Meaning of "Semantics": Why You Should Care (a Lot!) ~ Part 1 By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 3

The Phoenix Strategy ~ A Lower-Risk Approach to Rejuvenating Systems and Legacy Modernization By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 2

'Rules of Record' ~ Why 'System of Record' Isn't Enough By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 1

The Decision Center ~ A Center of Excellence for Coordinating Business Rules and Other Process 'Smarts' By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 12

The Latency of Decisions ~ New Ideas on the ROI of Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 11

Legacy Systems -- Poorly Engineered or Over-Engineered? New Insights about Business Rules and Enterprise Decisioning By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 10

The Value of Decisions ~ New Ideas on the ROI of Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 9

A Case of Dueling Manifestos? Business Rules and Enterprise Decision Management By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 8

What's Wrong with If-Then Syntax For Expressing Business Rules ~ One Size Doesn't Fit All By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 7

Are IT Terms Fundamental to Every Business? Not! By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 6

Are all Rules Business Rules? Not! By Ronald G. Ross May 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 5

Are Software Requirements Rules? Not! By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 4

Are Integrity Constraints Business Rules? Not! By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 3

From Rule Management to Business Governance, Part 4: Governance Engineers and the Chief Governance Officer (CGO) By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 2

From Rule Management to Business Governance, Part 3: Re-Engineering the Governance Process By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 1

From Rule Management to Business Governance, Part 2: Governance and How it Relates to Rule Management By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 12

From Rule Management to Business Governance, Part 1: Governance and How it Relates to Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 11

Rules and Processes: Examples Showing How They Relate By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 10

The Meaning of Things: Definitions, Intensions, Rules, and Extensions By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 9

Re-Vitalize, Don't Just Re-platform! ~ Three Tests for Whether Your Company 'Gets It' with Respect to Re-Platforming Business IP By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 8

The Dirty Secrets About Your Company's Business IP That Nobody Wants to Talk About By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 7

A Personal Insurance Saga ~ The Economics of Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 6

Concepts, Definitions, and Rules: RuleSpeak® Practices By Ronald G. Ross May 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 5

The RuleSpeak® Business Rule Notation By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 4

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 6. Point-of-Knowledge Architecture (POKA) By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 3

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 5. Scripts -- Rule-Friendly Process Models By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 2

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 4. Business Processes vs. System Processes By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 1

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 3. Three Best Practices for Designing Business Processes with Rules By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 12

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 2. By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 11

How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 1. The Challenges By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 10

Rule Quality ~ The Route to Trustworthy Business Logic By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 9

Decision Tables, Part 2 ~ The Route to Completeness By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 8

Decision Tables, Part 1 ~ The Route to Consolidated Business Logic By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 7

Rule Reduction ~ The Route to Atomic Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 6

Essence Definitions and Business Rules ~ Developing Stable Anchor Points for Operational Knowledge By Ronald G. Ross May 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 5

Can You Violate Structural Rules? (Part 3) ~ The Difference Between Breaking Rules and 'Breaking' Knowledge By Ronald G. Ross Apr. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 4

Can You Violate Structural Rules? (Part 2) ~ The Difference Between How to Compute and How to Behave By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 3

Can You Violate Structural Rules? (Part 1) ~ The Difference Between Violations and Bad Decisions By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 2

Business Rules and Knowledge Workers ~ Getting to the 'Point of Knowledge' By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 1

Can a Definition be Violated? ~ Definitions and Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 12

Rustling Up Good Definitions ~ There's a Lot Less and a Lot More to It Than You Think By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 11

Clarifying Clarifications ~ Universal 'And' to the Rescue By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 10

Relearning the Basics of Communicating ~ Business Semantics and Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 9

The Light World vs. the Dark World ~ Business Rules for Authorization By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 8

Best-Fit Decision Points ~ How They Fit into the Business Rule Approach By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 7

What Rule Independence Means to System Models ~ Less and More than You Think! By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 6

The Semantics Lexicon ~ Terms for the Business Rules / Smart Process Revolution By Ronald G. Ross May 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 5

The Notion of the Perfect Platform ~ And What It Means for System Models By Ronald G. Ross May 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 5

Rules and Compliance Tactics By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 3

Tracing the Path of Rule Reduction By Ronald G. Ross Feb. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 2

Do Rules Decompose to Processes or Vice Versa? By Ronald G. Ross Dec. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 12

Should You Encapsulate Knowledge in Modeling Real-World Things? By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 11

Business Rules, Encapsulation, and Models of the Real World By Ronald G. Ross Oct. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 10

Business vs. Environment in Business Models By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 9

Requirement Statement vs. Rule Statement By Ronald G. Ross Aug. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 8

Rules as Constraints: On or By the System Design? By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 7

Rules Reveal Events -- Not Actions By Ronald G. Ross Jun. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 6

Actions are Not Rules (and Vice Versa) By Ronald G. Ross May 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 5

Business Problems Addressed by the Business Rule Approach By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 3

About the Business Rules Manifesto ~ The Business Rule Message in a Nutshell By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 1

Business Rules for the Company's Provisioning Processes ~ There's a Lot More to Reference Data than Just Data! By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 11

The Terminator ~ I'll be Back (with Just the Right Term) By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 9

What Does it Mean to be Business-Driven? (Part 2) By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 7

What Does it Mean to be Business-Driven? (Part 1) By Ronald G. Ross May 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 5

A Telltale E-mail Trail: The Case for In-Line Business Rule Analysis By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 3

Managing M x N Vs. M + N, Market-Driven Economies, and Other eCommerce Issues (Part 2) By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2002 | Vol. 3, Iss. 1

Managing M x N Vs. M + N, Market-Driven Economies, and Other eCommerce Issues (Part 1) By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2001 | Vol. 2, Iss. 11

Minding Your Business p's and q's By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2001 | Vol. 2, Iss. 7

RuleSpeak® ~ Templates and Guidelines for Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross May 2001 | Vol. 2, Iss. 5

Business Rules in Business Processes ~ Rules for Process and Rules for Product/Service By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2001 | Vol. 2, Iss. 3

What Is Rule Management About? By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2001 | Vol. 2, Iss. 1

Let's Make a Deal: A Killer App for Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Nov. 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 11

The Re's of Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Sep. 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 9

What Are Fact Models and Why You Need Them (Part 2) By Ronald G. Ross Jul. 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 7

What Are Fact Models and Why You Need Them (Part 1) By Ronald G. Ross May 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 5

What Is a 'Business Rule'? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 3

Current Thoughts on Expressing Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross Jan. 2000 | Vol. 1, Iss. 1

THE FIN DE SIEGLE LEGACY MINDSET By Ronald G. Ross Nov./Dec. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 6

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS JUST MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE By Ronald G. Ross Sep./Oct. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 5

If We Had Started Coding Already ... By Ronald G. Ross Jul./Aug. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 7

Who or What Is a True Business Analyst? By Ronald G. Ross Mar./Apr. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 3

EXPLORING BUSINESS RULES Preface to the Business Rule Book, Second Edition By Ronald G. Ross Mar./Apr. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 2

Four Things Wrong with the Way We Develop Information Systems By Ronald G. Ross Jan/Feb. 1999 | Vol. 27, Iss. 1

Push-Type Data Hub vs. Pull-Type Data Warehouse By Ronald G. Ross Nov./Dec. 1998 | Vol. 26, Iss. 6

What Knowledge Management is About (And What it Has To Do With Business Rules) By Ronald G. Ross Sep./Oct. 1998 | Vol. 26, Iss. 5

The Next Great Leap Forward ~ About the Changes You See By Ronald G. Ross May/Jun. 1998 | Vol. 26, Iss. 3

Business Rules as Customer Interface By Ronald G. Ross Mar./Apr. 1998 | Vol. 26, Iss. 2

Components and Business Rules: Do They Connect? By Ronald G. Ross Jan./Feb. 1998 | Vol. 26, Iss. 1

The Policy Charter: A Small-Sized Picture of the Big Picture By Ronald G. Ross Nov./Dec. 1997 | Vol. 25, Iss. 6

Implementing Application Packages: Is There a Better Way? By Ronald G. Ross Sep./Oct. 1997 | Vol. 25, Iss. 5

Why is Why Business Rule Methodology is Different By Ronald G. Ross Jul./Aug. 1997 | Vol. 25, Iss. 4

Never-ending On-the-Job Training By Ronald G. Ross May/Jun. 1997 | Vol. 25, Iss. 3

Business Rule Re-Engineering By Ronald G. Ross Mar./Apr. 1997 | Vol. 25, Iss. 2

Re-Usability in the Business Rule Approach By Ronald G. Ross Sep./Oct. 1996 | Vol. 24, Iss. 5

The Newest Idea in Business Rules: Rules Normalize! By Ronald G. Ross Mar./Apr. 1996 | Vol. 25, Iss. 3

Business Rules: Knowledge for Knowledge Workers By Ronald G. Ross Nov./Dec. 1995 | Vol. 23, Iss. 6

The Greatest Irony of the Information Age: Business Rules By Ronald G. Ross May/Jun. 1995 | Vol. 23, Iss. 3

Business Rules: Birth of a Movement By Ronald G. Ross May/Jun. 1994 | Vol. 22, Iss. 3

Business Rules, At What Cost? By Ronald G. Ross Jan./Feb. 1994 | Vol. 22, Iss. 1

Why I Like the Zachman Framework Architecture By Ronald G. Ross Jul./Aug. 1991 | Vol. 19, Iss. 4

The History of Steam-Powered Ships By Ronald G. Ross Nov./Dec. 1988 | Vol. 16, Iss. 6

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