Monday | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Business Alignment Symposium

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Becoming Strategy-Driven: Smarter Decisions, Smarter Processes and Smarter Architectures

SPEAKER(s):

Ronald G. Ross Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC Executive Editor, Business Rules Journal

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ABOUT THIS SESSION:

If you want your business processes and HR and IT architectures to become smarter, it is logical that your approach must be business strategy-driven. Citing illustrations from real-life enterprises, Ron Ross will show how being strategy-driven means having consistent criteria to judge what to do in a timely fashion regardless of the circumstances. This session will set the criteria for evaluating everything that is done in the enterprise and the determination of what to change to sustain performance.

• The elements of strategy – drivers, ends, means and assessments
• Dealing with constant change and massive complexity
• How to achieve measurable alignment
• Continuously smarter business processes, capabilities and decisions



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. He gives popular public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com) and IRM-UK (www.IRMUK.co.uk).

Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the “father of business rules.” He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers, The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.

Mr. Ross is Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com). At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business requirements methodology, including the popular RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2009), a just-released 3rd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003).