The Executive Tool for Achieving Organizational Business Decision Maturity
This course is specifically for business and I/T executives and architects interested in aligning business objectives with optimum business decision management practices. Its premise is that “The quality of a business is related not only to the quality of its business processes and software infrastructure but also to the quality of the business decisions that drive both of these.”
Business Decision Management itself is gaining momentum, according to Harvard Business Review (Tom Davenport, “Make Better Decisions,” HBR, Nov 2009).
The course begins by explaining the critical nature and implications of business decisions on the integrity, success, and survival of a business, both in normal and chaotic times. After explaining the three characteristics that contribute to the business value of a business decision, the course introduces the BDMM. The BDMM defines the maturity levels for the process of managing important business decisions, in software and otherwise.
The BDMM is widely used by organizations to assess current state and a realistic target state, and to achieve the latter in step-by-step increments. This course references The Decision Model, a platform and technology independent model for business rules and logic described in the recent book, The Decision Model: A Framework for Business Logic Linking Business and Technology (von Halle and Goldberg, 2009, Taylor & Francis LLC, ISBN 1420082817). Opher Etzion, Ph.D., IBM Master Inventor, states, “This book can become one of the classic books of a new era in computing that will have much traction in the next few years”
This course can be taken prior to, or along with, the other courses for the Business Decision Modeler. It introduces the attendee to the vectors and levels of the Business Decision Maturity Model. The attendee will learn how the BDMM:
- Aligns business objectives with optimum Business Decision Management practices
- Provides a means for reaching step-by-step organizational advancement of Business Decision Management practices
- Elevates management of business rules to the more strategic activity of managing business decisions
- Relates Business Decision Management maturity to business value, business architecture, and business governance.
- Enables parallel cultural and technological advances for achieving a consistent level of maturity
- Introduces a vision for advanced and futuristic Business Decision Opportunities
Course Outline:
- The Tangible Value of Business Decisions to an Enterprise
- Three characteristics (operative context, value-based economic impact, complexity of logic)
- Practical application of these characteristics
- Case Study
- Why a New Maturity Model
- What is a Maturity Model
- The Previous Age of Software Crisis and Role of Maturity Models
- Original Rule Maturity Model – Missing Piece
- Impact of The Decision Model
- Unique Features of the BDMM
- Vectors Explained
- Levels Reviewed
- Details of the BDMM
Levels 1-5
- Using the BDMM as an Organizational Tool
- Current BDMM Level and Risks, Limitations
- Target BDMM Level and Opportunities
- Roadmap for Getting From Current to Target Level
Unique Value of Course:
This is the only business rule course available today that introduces the BDMM as a means for establishing a Business Decision Management Maturity Roadmap. The BDMM results in identifying the fastest path toward elevating business rule management to business decision management while managing cost and organizational change.
Objectives:
Improve your ability to identify the importance of business decision management and how you can build a roadmap for your organization:
- Measure your organizational or project objectives against BDMM levels
- Understand and calculate the value of improving in levels
- Establish a roadmap to achieve optimum maturity for reaching objectives
Who Should Attend:
This uniquely practical workshop is valuable for executives, managers, and architects on the business or technical side, involved in planning, leading, or participating in a business rules project or an enterprise strategy. The attendee gains practical insights by understanding how other organizations have applied the BDMM in achieving their business decision management goals.
Relevant attendees include those in the following roles:
- Business or Enterprise Architect who wishes to gain an insight into a strategic solution to the Business Rule problem in enterprise systems
- Project manager – leading a strategic business rules or BPM project
- Business SME or Business Rule steward – providing input to rules behind important business decisions
- Business analyst – documenting or evolving business decisions and rules
- Requirements analyst - integrating requirements and models with Business Decisions and Business Rules
- Business process analyst – designing processes powered by Business Decisions and Business Rules
- Business process owner/steward – providing expertise in Business Processes and BDM/Business Rules
Prerequisites:
Business Rules and BDM 101
Business Rules Driven Requirements
This course is a part of a Learning Path, a collection of suggested courses for the Certificate of Training program.
