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(More customer reviews)This book is manages to both delight and disappoint. The delight comes from the interesting perspective the author brings to modeling, and his obvious deep understanding of UML and its strengths and weaknesses. It disappoints because the writing is marred by overly academic format (copious footnotes and stilted language), and some disorganization.
Highlights include incorporating business rules, modeling and viewpoints to develop a business model that integrates IT and business. While the author appears to be going in the right direction, especially by touching on what I consider to be the major critical success factors and techniques, he manages to weaken this book by putting a non-standard spin on the topics. For example, his view of business rules seems to be more in line with what he proposed in his earlier book titled "Business Specifications", instead of the more mainstream approach that is well documented in Tony Morgan's "Business Rules and Information Systems" and Barbara Von Halle's "Business Rules Applied". The modeling approach itself departs from standard UML, even though the author does make a good case for doing so. The problem is that by sticking with an established standard, regardless of shortcomings, you will be consistent with accepted practices that are understood throughout industry. Going with the author's approach means a learning curve for your own staff as well as consultants, and serious problems when attempting to use mainstream tools, such as Rational Rose, to instantiate the business models.
I recommend this book to advanced practitioners in business modeling who want to mine some excellent ideas that are interwoven throughout, but do not recommend it to anyone who wants to learn business modeling.
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To build software that meets its business goals, IT and business professionals must work together closely to define specifications and build models that accurately describe them. In Business Models: A Guide for Business and IT, Haim Kilov gives you the shared language you need to accomplish this. He illuminates every key concept underlying today's most important approaches to specifications and modeling, giving business professionals practical insight for decision-making and giving IT experts practical tools for assessing your work in its business context.
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