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Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business Kindle Edition

by Ronald G. Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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About Business Knowledge Blueprints ... Learn the art and science of: * Building robust business vocabularies * Disambiguating business communication * Designing data based on language ... If you want to share and re-use data, the problem is communication, not technology. Concept models are the most important innovation this century. Create the new Knowledge Commons for your business! Bring people together for Knowledge-Age success. This book is for governance, risk and compliance managers, regulators and policy makers, legal staff, knowledge managers, product designers, and training managers – and the analysts, architects, data scientists, and software professionals who support business transformations.
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Ronald G. Ross is one of the world's foremost authorities on policy interpretation, rules, concept models, business vocabulary, and data design. He is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS). At BRS, he has consulted to many hundreds of companies and government bodies around the globe.

Ron is the author of 10 professional books, including Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business, 2nd ed. (2020). He is known as the ‘father’ of business rules.

Ron is Chair of Building Business Capabilities (BBC), the official conference of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®). He was a founder and principal in standards work at OMG on SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules).

Ron has keynoted dozens of conferences and given seminars to many thousands of people worldwide. He is currently Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. From 1977-1998 he was editor of the landmark Data Base Newsletter.

Ron holds an M.S. in information science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Rice University.

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  • O. Shchedrin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pure gold material, highly recommend!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2025
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    I won’t have enough words to express my admiration of the work Ronald did. Pure gold, every sentence… if you are trying to understand and express your business using one universal language then follow the methodology Ronald kindly shared with us in this book!
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  • MLS1
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for all data governance professionals
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020
    If you’re still building conceptual data models, STOP! Buy this book and change what you’re doing before you waste any more of your organization’s resources.
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  • Adrian Reed
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, practical, useable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2021
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    This is a really clear, practical book which is clearly based on a huge amount of practitioner experience. There are practical examples given throughout, with clear guidance and lists of things to avoid/keep an eye out for.

    As a business analyst, I would recommend this to anyone who works in business analysis or a related field. I sense I will be referring to this for years to come!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book. You'll be glad you did.
    Reviewed in Australia on August 3, 2021
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    Ron asked me to write a review for the book after I approached him directly to thank him for writing "Business Knowledge Blueprints" and I am more than happy to do so.

    As a (well) seasoned data modeller I thought I knew it all, but after reading this book I now feel like I knew nothing at all. However, this isn't a book about Data Modelling and Ron is very clear in explaining this; but now I've read it my perception of what is and is not a good data model has changed. I now feel I have to re-learn how to approach a discipline I've been doing (I thought successfully) for 30 years.

    The book itself is relatively short. although I have forced myself to take my time reading it to help make the ideas stick and I suspect it will need at least one or two more runs through and a great deal of practice.

    One area I've always struggled with as data modeller is writing good definitions for concepts (or entities although they are not the same thing). It's really hard to do and I just assumed that it was something I wasn't that good at. Apparently it is really hard for everybody out there, so the advice Ron gives an how to approach this daunting task will prove to be invaluable going forwards.

    So if you are a data modeller, process modeller, business architect, or data steward; do yourself a favour and buy, read, embrace and apply the learnings from this book. You'll be glad you did.
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  • Gerald Dunn
    4.0 out of 5 stars Simple, short and useful.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2021
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    I always worry when one person seems to have a little bit of a niche market cornered..its usually a sign that they have coined a neologism and have made it their life's work to layer platitude on top of platitude. Not so Mr Ross. He gives substance to something that every project sponsor says they want but is often the first well-intentioned paving-stone as the road gets hotter...a business glossary and way of codifying the very concepts you are dealing with.

    'Business Knowledge Blueprints' offers a very simple and practical set of syntactical and semantic rules about how to structure business glossary definitions. One short read through and we were able to put it to immediate use in our thinking and our projects. Some of it will simply remind you of your secondary school grammar lessons and no bad thing.

    Though he makes it clear this is a business perspective, and that is absolutely the way you should approach it with your business users, it also offers a very useful stepping off point to the Conceptual and Logical Data Model conversations. I came across it as one of the IIBA Business Analysis techniques, and it definitely has a place in that toolbox of skills.

    Some of his examples 'generic' examples are spot on...some a little strained. If I had a quibble it would be that some of these examples could be tightened up. The appendices demonstrate he has clearly done this methodically and repeatedly so it is clear that it can be scaled to an enterprise level...though perhaps best to start in one domain.

    His other works expand the thinking to Business Rules, and separate out Business Rules from Glossary Definitions which in itself is a very useful and usable distinction.

    Well done and thanks.
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  • James
    5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I’ve been looking for
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2020
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    I’m a fan of the Zachman framework. I’ve been looking for something that addresses the What interrogative for the Executive and a Management perspectives that are the main concerns of business architects and business analysts. This book does just that.

    So obviously well researched. Grounded in real world experience. Very readable. Clear examples.

    Bravo.
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