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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

Improving the Quality of Public Health Guidance: A Business Rules Approach By David Lyalin Ronald G. Ross and Stuart Myerburg 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

Business Rules: The Body Analogy 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

7 Common Myths (Plus 1) About the Zachman Architecture Framework By Ronald G. Ross John A. Zachman 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

The Distilled Principles of Rules as Code (RaC): How to Produce Better Rules By Pim Willemstein 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

Decision Vocabulary By Donald E. Baisley, Keri Anderson Healy and 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

SBVR Support for Inference: Logical Effects of Claims of Necessity and Obligation on Implications By Donald E. Baisley, Keri Anderson Healy and 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

The Business Agility Manifesto — The Authors Speak Out Q&A with Roger T. Burlton, Ronald G. Ross, & John A. Zachman By Roger T. Burlton with Ronald G. Ross and John A. Zachman Mar. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 3

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

Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules About Geography By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Aug. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 8

Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules About Organizations By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Jul. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 7

Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules from Business Models of Milestones or States By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Jun. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 6

Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules from Concept Models By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam May 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 5

Pattern Questions for Harvesting Business Rules from Business Process Models By Ronald G. Ross Gladys S.W. Lam Apr. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 4

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

The RuleSpeak® Business Rule Notation By Ronald G. Ross May 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 5

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

The Complete Business Rules Manifesto 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

About 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:

Rules: Shaping Behavior and Knowledge (2023)

Business Knowledge Messaging: How To Avoid Business Miscommunication (2022)

Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business (2020)

Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules with Gladys S.W. Lam (2nd edition, 2015)

Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th edition, 2013)

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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