Rolando Hernandez's Blog (7)

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I don't Twitter. I blog instead. It makes me seem so old fashioned.

I just wrote a blog about rule failures at Orbitz.

Follow this link to read all about it: http://bizrules.info/weblog/2009/09/business_rules_drag_orbitz_dow.html

I'm a business guy, and an IT guy. I get business, and I get IT.



But I used to be a typical IT person who just didn't understand business. Those were the days.



My first job out of college was working at Mobil Oil in their MIS Department. That's Management Information Systems for you kids out there. We started a newsletter to keep our clients, the business people, up to date on all the neat R&D projects and cool technologies we were working on. The year was… Continue

Dear CEO:



I am sick and tired of reading about billion dollar IT projects that we both know are never going to work, change, or last. It's time to stop the non-sense and use common-sense.



Here's just one example from InformationWeek. California is spending $3,600,000,000 (that's $3.6 BILLION) on these systems:



• Financial system: 11.8 years, $1.6B

• Strategic… Continue

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It's time to reprint a story I wrote when Wall Street imploded and went down the drain in September. These 10 rules are holding up pretty nicely three months later, thanks to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich selling Barack Obama's Senate seat on e-bay, and prominent Wall Street Trader Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud, the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.



10 Rules for Wall Street

What are the rules? Did people break the rules, bend the rules, or ignore the… Continue

Business Rules derive inferences and arrive at conclusions by reasoning about facts or premises using either deduction or induction.



An if-then statement in a declarative rule-based programming language is a business rule. Business rules are designed to solve complex problems that require reasoning (thinking) and knowledge in order to make intelligent decisions. Business rules can explain their reasoning process in order to justify their conclusions, decisions, and recommendations.… Continue