Resources
Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of Business
By Ronald G. Ross
The authoritative book on concept models (business ontology) and business vocabulary, written by one of the world’s foremost experts on both structured and unstructured data.
Business Knowledge Messaging: How to Avoid Business Miscommunication
By Ronald G. Ross
The problem we face today is inelastic engagement. If you’re drowning in a daily deluge of emails and virtual meetings, you know exactly what I mean.
Rules: Shaping Behavior and Knowledge
By Ronald G. Ross
Time for a fresh look. Rules are almost certainly not what you think they are. And that lack of understanding is holding us back.
Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules (SecondEdition)
By Ronald G. Ross & Gladys S. W. Lam
Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules provides a practical, proven, innovative guide to building great business solutions.
Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th Ed.)
By Ronald G. Ross & Gladys S. W. Lam
The classic book in the field. Easy-to-understand explanation of business vocabulary, business rules and business processes … and how they relate!
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AIRA-COVID 19 Response
Standardizing vaccine tracking vocabulary and building advanced data systems. Efficiently tracking vaccination information by demographic was critical to AIRA’s COVID-19 response in 2021.
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Merit America
Building and empowering a new Data Team for the non-profit organization. New data organization, data infrastructure, and data systems.
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Current State Analysis of Your Data – Part 1
This article helps data leads understand how their organization currently uses data. The series will cover four main categories: Data Quality, Data Freshness, Data Culture, and Data-Driven Outcomes.
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Current State Analysis of Your Data – Part 2 – Data Freshness
This article is the second in a series taking a deep dive on how to do a Current State Analysis on your data. This article focusses on Data Freshness: what it is, why it’s important, and what questions to ask to determine its current state.
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Current State Analysis of Your Data – Part 3 – Data Culture
This article is the third in a series taking a deep dive on how to do a current state analysis on your data. This article focuses on data culture, what it is, why it is important, and what questions to ask to determine its current state.
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Data Culture Issues and How to Fix Them
Read more about a discussion of the three major causes and potential mitigation techniques of data culture issues, as published on The Data Administration Newsletter.
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Understanding Data In Your Organization
Discover how to use your company’s data to ensure better decision making, sounder reporting, or even data monetization.
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What’s Your Data Culture Plan for 2023?
Read more about renewing and refreshing an organization’s data culture, improving data trust, being intentional about data communications, and gaining support from senior leadership.
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BRSdata Capability Matrix™
Explore BRSdata’s capability map to discover services that fit your company best. The structure of data teams differs from organization to organization.
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The Data Organization Spectrum
Read more about the framework for data organization, as published in The Data Administration Newsletter. When trying to build out a data organization, it is important to consider how people will be interacting with data.
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Your Next Data Skill is Stakeholder Empathy
Read more about the importance of stakeholder empathy for data professionals, which involves looking at a problem from a stakeholder’s perspective, understanding their workflow, and anticipating their questions and concerns.