This document comes out of a course I recently taught a at the INSEAD business school on how to create, evaluate and improve business ideas. Think of it as a two page summary of a 4 week MBA course.
This is a collection of methods and strategies to make income from an Open Source project while keeping it thriving and freely available. The methods take into account project brand strength, and the real opportunities available while owning your project'
The first time you try to fill an open position, if you’re like most people, you place some ads, maybe browse around the large online boards, and get a ton of resumes.
The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions.
Five homes. Three estates. Fancy cars. Private jets. (The jets are always rented. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long run.) Thousands of acres of land. Art on the walls and libraries stuffed with first editions
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With all the 2.0 hype, I think it’s unfair to unanimously declare all new Internet startups as 100% junk. It can’t be much more than 95%. So I thought it would be an interesting diversion to switch the tone of my writing for a change. Here are some ti
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OPEN SOURCES « Community development is business development | Open Sources Home | Open Source SOA in Japan » January 25, 2007 Selling open source just keeps getting easier Filed under: Open Source One way to know that the open source market is maturing
Like I wrote earlier, it’s frustrating to learn a new language when you don’t get to use it straight away. So I’ve come up with 10 creative ways that will get you started today with making big money (or fame) with your newly acquired Ruby skills
Having just wrapped up the European Business Rules Conference (see my previous posts), I noticed that some misinformation was provided at EBRC around sequential and inferencing execution of business rules. Sadly the misinformation was provided by a vendor
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Business Process Management (BPM) und Business Rules Management (BRM) zusammen in einer service-orientierten Architektur (SOA) sind die methodischen und technischen Voraussetzungen, um Geschäftsprozesse zu industrialisieren und agil zu sein. BPM schafft die Automatisierung und Standardisierung von Geschäftsprozessen, BRM die Standardisierung und Transparenz von Management-Politiken und -Prinzipien. Und eine SOA bringt die Service-Orientierung, die uns erlaubt zwischen spezifischen Logiken einzelner Prozesse und prozessübergreifenden Logiken gebündelter Kompetenzen und Dienstleistungen sauber zu trennen. Das schafft Agilität zusammen mit Industrialisierung.
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Most BREs today are deployed as “decision services”, and are used in “stateless” transactions to make “decisions” as a part of a business process. A CEP application is instead processing multiple event streams and sources over time, which requires a “stateful” rule service optimized for long running. This is an important distinction, as a stateful BRE for long-running processes needs to have failover support - the ability to cache its working memory for application restarting or distribution. And of course long-running processes need to be very particular over issues like memory handling - no memory leaks allowed!
The one, really big, difference between Complex Event Processing and traditional BRMS tools is that the former is loosely associated with EDA and decisions that are based on multiple events, whereas the latter is more associated with conventional request-reply SOA and automating decisions made in managed business processes.
Substitute a standard web services interface for a speaking tube, a business rules management system for his encyclopedic knowledge of policies and regulations, data mining or predictive analytics for his customer knowledge and adaptive control for his experimentation and you have Decision Management. The Answerer but on an industrial scale.
In diesem Buch werden alle relevanten modernen Standards der Geschäftsprozessanalyse und -modellierung miteinander verbunden und ihre praktische Handhabung dargestellt.
Kern des Buches ist eine Geschäftsprozess-Methodik, die die verschiedenen Standards in praxisrelevanter und harmonischer Weise verbindet. Sie erfahren, welche Standards es gibt, wofür und wie diese eingesetzt werden können und welche Möglichkeiten aber auch möglichen Einschränkungen in der Praxis damit verbunden sind. Basis sind die BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation), OSM (...), BMM (...), SBVR (..) und UML (...) - wobei diese Standards zielgerichtet nur soweit behandelt werden, wie es für die Auseinandersetzung mit Geschäftsprozessen notwendig ist.
Sie erfahren wie Strategien, Geschäftsregeln und Geschäftsprozesse dargestellt werden können und welche Strukturierungsmöglichkeiten es für Unternehmensarchitekten es gibt.
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Rob sees three key areas where rules can help:
Tighter warranty controls
Claims processing is improved because financial limits, detailed coverage types, materials return and more can be automated and rapidly changed when necessary. The rules also allow “what-if” testing and impact analysis.
Better built vehicles
The decision making is tracked very closely thanks to rules so you can analyze specific repair types, specific VINs and so on. More effective parts return and generally better information also contribute.
Lower cost repairs
Rules allow goodwill repairs, labor-only repairs and specific kinds of repairs to be managed very precisely. Rules-driven decisioning can reduce the variation of costs between dealers and help intervene, rejecting or editing claims that seem overly expensive. The ability of rules to deploy data mining and predictive analytics can also really help here.
Let’s start by recapping decisions services. Decision services are services, generally stateless ones, that answer business questions for other services. Decision Services typically have no side effects so they can be called whenever they are needed without the caller worrying that something will change in the system. This means that database updates, event generation or other actions taken as a result of the decision are taken by the caller not by the Decision Service. This is not 100% true but works as a general rule. To work, Decision Services need to contain all the logic and algorithms necessary to make the decision correctly.
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