Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business
Enable Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business
“How to Achieve a Common Business Language“
Finally, the Go-To Handbook for Building Shared Understanding
Here’s everything you need to know about
- Developing business vocabularies.
- Defining terms.
- Disambiguating concepts.
More than that, this handbook shows you how to clarify the meaning of everyday business communication and put business clarity into your data.
Introducing Concept Models
A concept model gives you a way to talk with subject matter experts in a way you’ve never had before. It will:
- Guide you in asking the right questions.
- Help you achieve business clarity.
- Show you how the pieces all fit together.
- Make you sound smart.
What about data? This book is for those intimidated by data, for those whose companies have poor quality data, or for those in initiatives seeking to tap into the power behind the data. Learn these techniques and you’ll ‘do’ all forms of data far better.
So many people these days – including business managers – know in their guts something is amiss about current approaches. Something in IT and data is simply not adding up. Not some small thing, but a very big thing. Data quality is awful. Systems still fail to meet expectations due to inadequate or misdirected requirements. Customer expectations simply aren’t being met. Now we are plunging headlong into a world of bots, AI, blockchain and more, with little or no sense of what it will really take to get us there.
If you are one of those people, this book provides the insights you need to talk directly about the problem – as well as all the robust techniques needed to tackle it head-on.
Who is this book for?
Think of a concept model as the new Knowledge Commons for the business. It’s about getting everyone on the same page for Knowledge-Age success!
Business People: governance, risk and compliance managers, regulators and policy makers, legal staff, knowledge managers, product designers, and training managers
Transformation Professionals: business analysts, business architects, data scientists, data modelers, and software professionals who support the business
What early readers are saying.
A great book. Definitely a topic more people in data should be concerned about. There is so much rapid...
thank you for writing Business Knowledge Blueprints. It's a wonderful book. As a seasoned data modeler it has...
Excellent, practical, useable." “This is a really clear, practical book which is clearly based on a huge amount of practitioner...
really enjoyed your book, both for the actual content and the good writing.
one of the most useful and engaging books I've come across in a while. It's full of highlights, underscores...
Love this book, and the others you have written Ron, big fan and believer all the way over in New...
Anyone even only thinking about deploying business models that rely heavily on data should take note.
I love your concept models! Incredibly powerful.
A great book for those of us wearing a zillion hats on how to get more done in less time...
In this book Ron Ross pulls apart business communications, shows how easily it can be a mess, shows how that...
I have realized that my point of view is still closer to technical-oriented by reading your book. Thank you for...
Just finished reading this wonderful book. I can’t recommend it highly enough – and not just to fellow business architects/analysts....
Really like the book. Very useful and understandable.
Very good … has already helped a project that I’m on. Those of you in business analysis and/or data should...
a great contribution to unify business communication
Anyone working closely with data, especially business and data analysts and architects, would benefit from the thought leadership and practical...
The ideas in this book are a big part of the answer to ‘the black box’ and transparency around automation....
Our ability to understand each other is only as good as the definition we share on each word.
[Concept models are] a great way for stakeholders to understand the impact of the change they’re considering.
Part V on how to create business definitions is the best. The examples are great.
Well done! This is the book I’ve been wanting for years. Now people can truly apply SBVR for real-world problems.
You need precision and consistency in every business communication. The more you focus on it, the more you will see...
Excellent subject, well written, very timely book. … a strong contribution to a missing dimension for business architects.
An extremely valuable book for practitioners of business analysis. Excellent presentation of such a complex subject matter as concept modeling...
A solid guide. Concept models are essential for creating the building blocks of the Knowledge Age. Welcome to the future!
Let me congratulate you on an excellent book, that should help others design better models.
Part I · Introduction
- 1Why Business Concept Models
- 2The Four Dimensions of Communication Clarity
- 3What Concept Models Are About
- 4Creating Concept Models
Part II · Getting to Know the Things You Talk About
- 5Distinguishing Things
- 6Naming Things
- 7Defining Things
- 8Disambiguating Things
Part III · Standard Relations
- 9Classifications
- 10Categorizations
Part IV · Verb Concepts
- 11Verb Concepts and Wordings
- 12Nouns Based on Verbs
- 13Verb Concept Structures
- 14Verbs and Transformations
Part V · How to Define Business Terms in Plain English
- 15The Kick-Off of a Definition
- 16The Main Body of a Definition
- 17Sets of Definitions
Appendices
- A1Conceptual Model vs Concept Model: Not the Same!
- A2Data Model vs Concept Model: Not the Same!
- A3EU-Rent Example
Ronald G. Ross is Co-Founder, Business Rule Solutions, LLC.
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