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!
Inside the Mind of an Organization: Concepts, Controls, Data, and Reality
By Ronald G. Ross
A new worldview for the AI era — one that treats concepts, controls, and data as the core elements of organizational mind-space. Why so many modern failures are not technology problems, but failures of meaning.
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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. -
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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Four BRS Dimensions of Semantic Quality
Business has a fundamental problem with data quality. In some
places it’s merely painful; in others it’s near catastrophic.
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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
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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. -
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
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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
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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. -
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. -
BRSdata Capability Matrix™
Explore BRSdata’s capability map to discover services that fit
your company best. The structure of data teams differs from
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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
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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.