Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management
Here's an interesting article about rules management and business process management that is right on the money:
"...what really matters are what the business owner has asked for: compliance, growth and productivity. The shortest path to these goals is through end-to-end automation of business processes that have at their core procedural flows and declarative business rules...
...Business rules are not an afterthought for successful BPM; rather, they are an essential component of it..."
See Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management, By Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, VP of BPM Technology, Pegasystems