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Carlsson, Sven, et al.
(författare)
Model Curriculum for a Bachelor of Science Program in Business Information Systems Design (BISD 2010)
2010
Ingår i: Communication of the Association for Information Systems. ; 26, s. 525-546
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
Commentators on Information Systems (IS) education have urged the IS community to develop new and alternative IS curricula. The IS 2002 model curriculum has recently been revised. The new IS 2010 curriculum guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in Information Systems [Topi et al. 2010] has a curriculum structure to accommodate the education of several different professional roles within IS. This paper identifies one such role, the Business Information Systems Designer. It presents and argues for a new, integrated Bachelor of Science curriculum for Business Information Systems Design (BISD 2010) to educate for this role. The proposed curriculum focuses on the design and use of IS in business and has a strong design focus. The education focuses on developing and training a set of capabilities that enables the Business Information Systems Designer to participate in the design of business and IS in concert. Some examples of capabilities are communication and presentation skills, business and industry understanding, and high-level modeling. Consequently, the curriculum adopted a capabilities-driven pedagogical model in order to train specific skills. The paper presents the BISD 2010 with its specific expected learning outcomes, structure, and pedagogy, and also how the students should be able to fulfill the learning outcomes. The proposed curriculum differs from much of the current IS model curriculum discussions in a number of respects: (1) it is built on a notion of design, design science, and design as a profession, (2) it is based on a capability driven pedagogical model, (3) the curriculum is modeled for a European higher education context and the Bologna accord, and (4) it is not a model curriculum, but a specific, comprehensive, and ambitious curriculum for a degree program.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
Better Support for User Participation Using Business Rules Approach?
2011
Ingår i: Information Systems Development. Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development.. - New York, NY : Springer New York. - 9781441997906 ; , s. 297-308
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat) abstract
User participation in requirement analysis (RA) is necessary for IS quality and user acceptance. A prerequisite for meaningful user participation is that the coming users also understand the requirements. This understanding is made difficult by abstract and “technical” modelling languages and notations which require learning and experience. The Business Rules Approach (BRA) builds on a notion of Business Rules (BR) formulated in natural language sentences aimed at the business audience; hence BRA should make user participation easy. This is tested in a workshop with a vaccination expert (VE) in a project on designing a BR oriented, digital service for health care workers (HCWs). The results indicate that natural language BRs in RA really are easily understood and intuitive for the VE and that quality checking BRs requires no special learning.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
Better Support for User Participation using Business Rules Approach?
2010
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
User participation in requirement analysis (RA) is necessary for IS quality and user acceptance. A prerequisite for meaningful user participation is that the coming users also understand the requirements. This understanding is made difficult by abstract and “technical” modelling languages and notations which require learning and experience. The Business Rules Approach (BRA) builds on a notion of Business Rules (BR) formulated in natural language sentences aimed at the business audience; hence BRA should make user participation easy. This is tested in a workshop with a vaccination expert (VE) in a project on designing a BR oriented, digital service for health care workers (HCWs). The results indicate that natural language BRs in RA really are easily understood and intuitive for the VE and that quality checking BRs requires no special learning.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
Business Process and Business Rules Modelling In Concert for e-Service Design and Business Alignment
2011
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Business Rules (BR) and Business Processes (BP) are essential pillars in any Business Information System (BIS) and important areas of BIS design (BISD). Historically, BRs have been overlooked as a part of BISD. The Business Rules Approach (BRA) focuses on concepts and methods to remedy the neglected BR design and management. BRs in this perspective are stateless and concerned with the “what” of a business and are associated with the operational decision logic. A concurrent approach is BP management and modelling (BPM), focusing on workflows and the “how” of a business. Thus, BPs are associated with the operational process logic. Ideally, BRs and BPs should be kept as separate services. However, BRs and BPs are interrelated and should be designed in parallel. In this paper, we argue for why and how this is important with an example from a major development and research project called VacSam. The parallel design of BRs and BPs of the VacSam digital service revealed that stateful events and activities captured in BP modelling had profound influence on stateless conditions in the BRs. Hence, without BP modelling that would not have been revealed and implicated the design of the Business Rules Centric Digital Service VacSam.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
Business Rules Friendly or not so Business Rules Friendly Business Concepts Modelling - Early Experiences from a Business Rules Project on a Digital Vaccination Recommendation Service
2010
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
WHO estimated in 2002 that 1.4 million children in the world would die from preventable diseases (World Health Organization, 2010). Each child is, or should be, immunized according to their national immunization schedule, which regulates i.e. vaccines and doses. Problems emerge when immigrant children should be transferred from one national vaccination schedule into another. This problem is quite evident in Sweden (Statistics Sweden, 2010). Vaccination practitioners have a hard time figuring out how to immunize an immigrant child. As a remedy for this situation, the VacSam project develops a Business Rules (BR) centric digital service through principles of (BR Approach), for providing unique vaccination recommendations. The service is designed using a commercial BRMS (BR Management Systems), which require a business concepts model. Thus, the paper presents early findings on how a business concepts model could be designed more or less BR-friendly. We have discovered, by designing, that a rigid, relational model approach is not BR-friendly. Instead, the concepts model should be de-signed to provide rule clarity and understandability. Thus, we draw the conclusion that a con-cepts model designed for persistent data storing, favouring a good quality relational model, is not rule friendly.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
Service Orienting the Swedish Vaccination Recommendation Activity with the Business Rules Centric Digital Service VacSam
2011
Ingår i: Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research 6th International Conference, DESRIST 2011, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 5-6, 2011. Proceedings. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 1611-3349 .- 0302-9743. - 9783642206320 ; 6629, s. 376-386
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Uniform control and coordination of immigrant children’s vaccination is a critical current problem in the Swe-dish child health safety work. In this paper we discuss the Business Rules (BR) centric and SOA architected digital service VacSam. VacSam incorporates principles of SOA, Business Rules Approach, and Business Pro-cess Management. The incorporation is used for deriving VacSam from a part of the Swedish vaccination busi-ness process by separating decision logic from process logic. Based on regulatory texts and empirical investiga-tions, VacSam BRs presently provides vaccination diagnosis of and recommendations to immigrant children. By ensuring the basic principles of SOA, VacSam becomes an eligible, SOA executable digital service. VacSam is in development and has hitherto been evaluated in an artificial context, where we show that the service can provide explained diagnosis of and recommendations to immigrant children’s vaccinations totally based on natural language BRs.
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Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
(författare)
The Service Oriented Business Process and Separation of Concerns - Modelling paradigms for Architectures and Business Processes
2012
Ingår i: ; , s. 1-12
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
This paper deals with the contemporary concern of business service-orientation. The paper suggests that service-oriented Business Information Systems Development (BISD) permits quality aspects, -“ilities” e.g.; maintainability and modifiability, of BISs and BISD. In addition, this paper departs from viewing a Business Information System (BIS) as services and suggests Separation of Concerns (SoC) as a prerequisite for achieving a well formed digital ecosystem. Besides knowledge transfer the purpose of this paper is to indicate the importance of architecture incorporating SoC when service-orienting a business with the contemporary Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). By realizing business logic service orientation in a nationwide research project our conclusion indicates that separate implementation of decision logic and process logic provides two different species of digital services implementing SoC. Consequently, responsible and eligible digital services become deliverables, service-orienting a part of a business representing vital quality aspects of ISD. The viability of separate digital services ensuring SoC facilitates the well-formed digital ecosystem i.e. the service oriented business process and business logic reusability and modifiability. The originality of this paper is based on a non-technical departure of SOA and on separation of process and decision logic as a mean to decreased child deaths due to preventable diseases.
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