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Chapter 11. Business Rules and Business Processes

• How Business Rules Relate to Business Processes

• Best Practices

Many companies today are looking to manage business activity on more of a beginning-to-end, value-add basis. That requires thinking cross-organizationally, always keeping to the business perspective. Can business rules help? Yes, greatly. This chapter explains.

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