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Ronald G. Ross

Concept Models: Who Are They For?                      

Summary: Concept models are for people from a great many areas of the business. Think of concept models as the new Knowledge Commons for the business. A concept model is all about shared understanding — getting everyone on the same page. And yes, that means just about everyone! Find out all the roles that can benefit from a concept model in Ron's column this month. You'll be surprised!
Ronald G. Ross
Ronald G. Ross Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC , Executive Editor, Business Rules Journal and Co-Chair, Building Business Capability (BBC) Read Author Bio       || Read All Articles by Ronald G. Ross

Extracted from Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business, by Ronald G. Ross, 2020.
http://brsolutions.com/business-knowledge-blueprints.html

Who are concept models for? Let's start with all the people in the business who are key in keeping the business running. These people have the knowledge and need to own the concepts. These people might be in any of the roles in the table on the left below. Any or all of these roles can benefit from a concept model.

Then we get to people more closely associated with business transformation and software initiatives. These people might be in any of the roles in the table on the right below. These roles are perhaps more obvious.

Any or all of these roles can also benefit from a concept model. And yes, that means just about everyone in the business!

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Ronald G. Ross, "Concept Models: Who Are They For?                      " Business Rules Journal, Vol. 21, No. 07, (Jul. 2020)
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Ronald G. Ross
Ronald G. Ross Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC , 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 BRS 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

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