This White Paper, Decision Modeling for Business Rules Projects: How to Build a Decision Model that Drives Successful Business Rules Projects, was contributed courtesy of Decision Management Solutions.

Decision Modeling provides the tools and techniques needed for scoping and managing business rules projects. Decision Management is a proven framework that ties business rules to business objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs). By focusing on the decisions that matter to an organization—the ones that affect your business drivers and measures—Decision Management simplifies business rules design and implementation, accelerates adoption of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS), focuses a BRMS where it has the highest impact, ensures business ownership of the business rules, and delivers agility and continuous improvement of the decisions across the company.

This White Paper, Why Decisions Matter: Ensuring excellence in decision making to drive efficiency and effectiveness, was contributed courtesy of Decision Management Solutions.

Organizational success or failure is determined by the decisions organizations make but they are handicapped by systems that are centered on business processes or functions.

Companies face many challenges in today’s business climate. Companies whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. These companies struggle to improve business productivity while managing costs and find it hard to make changes in their systems quickly, despite a pressing need to do so.

This paper will explore:

• Digital Decisioning
• Decision Automation
• The Benefits of Becoming Decision Centric
• Decision Discovery
• & more!

While many, most, organizations know they need to focus on business processes, a matching focus on operational decisions is less common. The effective combination of Business Process Management (BPM) with Business Decision Management (BDM) is emerging as a critical element in successful organizations.

The Intersection of Process and Decision
Business Process Management is well established in organizations of every size. Many, most, organizations identify, document, model, automate and manage their business processes. Many of these organizations have adopted a technology stack, a Business Process Management System, to support their BPM work. Despite the importance of operational decisions, most do not yet similarly manage business decisions. This is changing as more organizations adopt Business Decision Management as well as Business Process Management so they can work at the intersection.

How to Build a Decision Requirements Model using the new Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard

The Object Management Group has recently adopted the Decision Model and Notation as a beta standard. Here’s how you can use it to define your decision requirements.

Why Model Decisions

The goal of this paper is to describe the four iterative steps to complete a Decision Requirements Model using the forthcoming DMN standard. Before beginning, it is important to understand the value of defining decision requirements as part of your overall requirements process. Experience shows that there are three main reasons for doing so: