The Business Rule Revolution is happening everywhere, even if it seems invisible. In fact, the business rules that are unseen or unknown are precisely the ones that can do the most damage. Invisible rules lurk behind a lack of proper business rule management—creating a precarious business climate for these times.
Consider the growing and painful awareness of questionable accounting practices by some corporate executives in some major organizations. What is at play here? Business rules are at play—good or bad, known or unknown. In these cases, rules were broken or secret. Some were improper rules applied to achieve improper objectives. Think of the Business Rule Revolution as appropriate parties knowing what the rules are, applying the rules in all the right places, and the organization therefore taking full responsibility for its rules and its integrity.
In a nutshell, the Business Rule Revolution represents an emerging undeniable need for the right people to know what a business’s rules are, to be able to change those rules on demand according to changing objectives, to be accountable for those rules, and to predict as closely as possible the impact of rule changes on the business, its customers, its partners, its competition, and its regulators.
