IIBA Houston August 11, 2015

Minding Your Business - Ron Ross

 Come at 5:30 to spend time meeting and getting to know your fellow BAs.

Presentation Details

Are problems with your business processes really limited to waste and defects?  What if your processes increase in-line productivity but are not very responsive, consistent or compliant? Does ‘quality’ really say it all in a world increasingly focused on improving and automating white-collar work? 
 
Many business processes seem almost brain-dead, kept on life support by scores of business analysts and IT professionals working round the clock. Surely we can do better.

Indeed we can, but first we must rethink the problems. They’re not necessarily what you think. Instead they have to do with how strategy, policy and basic business knowledge are deployed into the payload. Bottom line? To mind the business effectively your processes need far more brainpower.

·       The myths and challenges of operational effectiveness in today’s world.
·       Achieving business excellence with business agility front and center.
·       Why what you’ve done in the past won’t get you where you need to go.

Presenter

Ronald G. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), where he actively develops and applies the BABusinessSpeak™ methodology including RuleSpeak®, DecisionSpeak™, and ConceptSpeak™. Ron consults to companies worldwide through BRS.

Ron is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He is the author of ten professional books including the groundbreaking first book on business rules The Business Rule Book in 1994. His newest are: 

·       Building Buiness Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules (2nd edition) with Gladys S.W. Lam (2015, An IIBA® Sponsored Handbook). 

·       Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th edition, 2013).

Ron serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. More than 50,000 people have heard him speak; many more have attended his seminars and read his books. 

Ron has served as Chair of the annual International Business Rules & Decisions Forum conference since 1997, now part of the Building Business Capability (BBC) conference. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of its Business Motivation Model (BMM) standard and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR. He was also a contributor to the IIBA’s BABOK v3.

Ron holds a BA from Rice University and an MS in information science from Illinois Institute of Technology. 

For more information about Mr. Ross, visit www.RonRoss.info, which hosts his blog. 

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