Decision management is an enterprise design approach that puts decisions in the center of the design of an organization. Instead of focusing on rules to design the behavior of organizations and IT systems, decisions should be used. First an analysis is made on where and how the decisions are made. Business rules are input for decisions.
Managing a decision means that all aspects of a decision are managed in such a way that the business can understand and verify how decisions are made in their organization. This aspect is important to the governance and compliance obligations that companies are facing these days.
In decision management, decisions are often a decision hierarchy, which resembles the way a backward chaining mechanism derives/infers its result. Since Blueriq has implemented the backward chaining mechanism, there is a good fit between Blueriq and decisions. For that reason we strongly advise to use the ideas of decision management when designing a solution.
There are several methods and notations available on the market that support the implementation of decision management. In this chapter we describe the two most prominent implementations of decision management, Decision Model and Notation (DMN) and The Decision Model (TDM).
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