Panel: The Imperfect Storm: Business Process vs. Business Rule: What’s the Difference and Does it Really Matter?
Moderated by: Larry Goldberg, Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners International
A SUBTLE, EMERGING STRUGGLE THREATENS YOUR BUSINESS PROCESSES! There is no doubt that skilled business process modelers can describe the world as a set of clear and accurate process models. Also, skilled business rule authors or analysts can describe the world as a set of interacting rules. But, is it important to see the world both ways? If so, when is business logic a process and when is it a set of rules? How does this double vision improve your processes and ROI? More importantly, what deadly sins and costly errors lurk in business processes models that lack this vision? What role does technology play in integrating this double vision? If you model your processes without the business rule vision, is it too late to add that vision later? Do current practices, emerging standards, and related technologies improve your business processes or simply add complexity, confusion, and cost? Only these panel members know for sure…
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