The Key Approaches to Setting Solid Business Rules

Two focuses of my blog are Financial Literacy/Money and Business/Entrepreneurship. There’s so much more to having a business than having a good concept/idea and making money. There are also some important rules that can help your operations along. The following contributed post is entitled, The Key Approaches to Setting Solid Business Rules.

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The notion of setting rules in business is such a simple one, but an essential component of realizing two different goals. Firstly, it’s to help any industry make faster decisions, but also to make better decisions, which results in a better bottom line. Many businesses believe that setting rules are straightforward, that you have just got to go for the big guns, such as improving security measures, but there is so much more to it than that. Whatever the experience you’ve got over the years, you’ve got to make sure that the whole idea behind setting rules is a solid approach. So with this in mind what are some of the key characteristics you need to incorporate?

A Developmental Approach
Whether it’s about code enforcement to guarantee that individuals follow certain ethical and practical standards or about incorporating a more streamlined approach, having a developmental approach with the right application is essential. So it could consist of incorporating rules that embody the business plan or the domain knowledge that is best maintained by certain business people, or it could require multiple levels of reasoning. In addition to this, there could be a wide variety of roles that change frequently. When you start to incorporate these aspects, you are burrowing under the surface of your business approach.

Developing a Sound Methodology
This is when you will be able to follow an approach that delivers a rational process, as well as one that delivers the results. Regardless of the methodology, you decide to incorporate the key components that will involve documentation and developing these rules in addition to discovering new ones and maintaining them. In total, these will all highlight your incremental success.

Writing Effective Rules That Maintain a High Standard
When we write effective rules, we need to use two important components. They have to be concise, but they also have to be atomic. Ensuring that your business rules are concise means that you only mention concepts that are absolutely essential. The atomic approach to business rules means the concepts adopted by the rule are as streamlined and simplistic as possible. This makes the rules easier to follow, but it also guarantees that there is little room for misinterpretation.

Ensuring It Is in Line With the Business Rules
When business rules are written they aren’t just used, but they need to be done in conjunction with the business to guarantee that the rules are not going to have “structural issues.” Once each component is verified, the business rules can be validated and edited to ensure that they do work. The one way to do this is to provide consistent and continuous monitoring of these rules. When you start to focus on this, you are embedding a necessity for change and development as part of the company’s overall culture. You can do this by incorporating operational analytics steps, but you can also make sure that your employees begin to question rules. Rules are in many ways meant to be bent and broken. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is in line with a business plan. Setting it in stone is one thing but making sure the stone is carved on a regular basis is just as essential.

Author: anwaryusef

Anwar Y. Dunbar is a Regulatory Scientist. Being a naturally curious person, he is also a student of all things. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Prior to starting the Big Words Blog Site, Anwar published and contributed to numerous research articles in competitive scientific journals reporting on his research from graduate school and postdoctoral years. After falling in love with writing, he contributed to the now defunct Examiner.com, and the Edvocate where he regularly wrote about: Education-related stories/topics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Financial Literacy; as well as conducted interviews with notable individuals such as actor and author Hill Harper. Having many influences, one of his most notable heroes is author, intellectual and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of books including Outliers and David and Goliath. Anwar has his hands in many, many activities. In addition to writing, Anwar actively mentors youth, works to spread awareness of STEM careers, serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, serves as Treasurer for the JCSU Washington, DC Alumni Chapter, and is active in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church. He also tutors in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics. Along with his multi-talented older brother Amahl Dunbar (designer of the Big Words logos, inventor and a plethora of other things), Anwar is a “Fanboy” and really enjoys Science-Fiction and Superhero movies including but not restricted to Captain America Civil War, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Prometheus. He is a proud native of Buffalo, NY.

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