Business Knowledge Blueprints Reviews
Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business
By Ronald G. Ross
The authoritative book on concept models and business vocabulary, written by one of the world’s foremost experts on both structured and unstructured data.
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Find out what readers have been saying about Business Knowledge Blueprints.
“Stunning quality of both the message and the writing. Easy-to-understand, practical guide for people new to documenting true-to-SBVR business concepts and their vocabularies.
‘Business Knowledge Blueprints’ provides a clear understanding of business concepts, which are the specific meaning intended by business authors for each term they use in its given context in the documents they write. This book is full of easy-to-apply practical tips for documenting those concepts and their associated vocabularies well, for unambiguous sharing among authors and readers.
Whether you are an executive, regulator, policymaker, lawyer, risk manager, compliance manager, business knowledge manager, training manager or business communications manager, this book shows how to deliver on one of your key critical success factors – the clarity of meaning of the text you are responsible for being written and of the data you are responsible for being recoded.
This book will help you to maximize the effectiveness of the areas of your responsibility by reducing the costs of wasted activity, risk events, and lost opportunities caused by misinterpretation.”
~ Donald Chapin
“Let me congratulate you on an excellent book, that should help others design better models.”
~ Terry Halpin
“A solid guide. Concept models are essential for creating the building blocks of the Knowledge Age. Welcome to the future!
In my company I often explained to the powers that be they could sanely start working on the future, or five, ten, fifteen years from now, be painfully dragged along kicking and screaming. This book guides you along the sane path today.”
~ Robert Dizinno
“an extremely valuable book for practitioners of business analysis. Excellent presentation of such a complex subject matter as concept modeling by a towering thought leader. I only wish I had had the chance to read such a book at a much earlier stage of my career.”
~ David Lyalin
“Excellent subject, well written, very timely book. … a strong contribution to a missing dimension for business architects.
Ron Ross is one of the most precise, insightful and analytical business modelers in our industry. This book is a true gift of knowledge.
Concept models encapsulate the necessary methods and guidance to write and speak clearly without ambiguity to improve business communication. This book reveals how to develop clearly written and spoken concepts to share innovative and precise ideas. A business knowledge blueprint enables business agility, acceleration and clarity, a necessary foundation for developing sound business models and roadmaps.
When you practice techniques shared in this book, you’ll avoid the costly mistake that AI will work without a clearly written common business vocabulary. This book offers a common sense, clear and very effective approach to understanding your business concepts and vocabulary, and empower machines with what they need to know.
If you’re a business leader, business modeler, business analyst, or student seeking to learn how to rigorously remove ambiguity and to avoid any related miscommunication between people and machines, study this book!”
~ Ramsay Millar
“You need precision and consistency in every business communication. The more you focus on it, the more you will see the value of the techniques presented in this book.
What’s the most important message of this book? Business vocabulary matters. Once you have a good understanding of your business vocabulary, you’ll find your requirements will improve, you’ll find ways of parsing out data to integrate things, and you’ll find your business communication improve dramatically.”
~ Gladys S.W. Lam
“Well done! This is the book I’ve been wanting for years. Now people can truly apply SBVR for real-world problems.”
~ Keri Anderson Healy
“Part V on how to create business definitions is the best. The examples are great.
The book shows how we can get definitions so horribly wrong and the consequences of that. It also clearly reveals this is a profession whose expertise requires discipline and skill. The outputs are easy to consume, but the curation actually takes a quite a bit of effort. The value, however, is well in excess of the investment.”
~ Nick Vaughan
“[Concept models are] a great way for stakeholders to understand the impact of the change they’re considering.”
~ Michelle Murray
“Our ability to understand each other is only as good as the definition we share on each word.”
~ Mark Meyers
“The ideas in this book are a big part of the answer to ‘the black box’ and transparency around automation. And they are central to capturing human knowledge – hard-won knowledge that makes a difference. In service. In competitiveness. In survival.”
~ John Morris
“Anyone working closely with data, especially business and data analysts and architects, would benefit from the thought leadership and practical tips included in this book!”
~ Dora Boussias