Martijn Zoet

Aligning Risk Management and Compliance Considerations with Business Process Development

The improvement of business processes, to date, primarily focuses on effectiveness and efficiency, thereby creating additional value for the organization and its stakeholders. The design of processes should also ensure that its result and the value obtained compensates for the risks affecting this value. In this paper the different kinds of risk affecting a business process are introduced, after which solutions to the problem of risk mitigation are discussed, resulting in a proposed framework to mollify these risks by incorporating a class of risk-mitigation rules into business process development.

Agile Service Development: A Rule-Based Method Engineering Approach

Agile software development has evolved into an increasingly mature software development approach and has been applied successfully in many software vendors’ development departments. In this position paper, we address the broader agile service development. Based on method engineering principles we define a framework that conceptualizes an operational way of working for the development of services, emphatically taking into account agility. As a first level of agility, the framework contains situational project factors that influence the choice of method fragments; secondly, increased agility is proposed by describing and operationalizing these method fragments not as imperative steps or activities, but instead by means of sets of minimally specified, declarative rules that determine the context and constraints within which goals are to be reached. This approach borrows concepts from rules management, organizational patterns, and game design theory.

Business Rules Management Solutions: Added Value by Effective Means of Business Interoperability

Interoperability research, to date, primarily focuses on data, processes and technology and not explicitly on business rules. The core problem of interoperability from an organisation’s perspective is the added value generated from collaborating with other parties. The added value from a data, process and technology perspective has been widely researched. Therefore it is the aim of this study to provide insights into the added value for organisations to collaborate when executing business rules management solutions. Explanations of possibilities, opportunities and challenges can help to increase the understanding of business rules interoperability value creation. Presented results provide a grounded basis from which empirical and practical investigation can be further explored.