RuleSphere Builds Enterprise Agility

RuleSphere International, Inc. announces the availability of management and technical consulting services marketed under the Agile Enterprise Management (AEM) moniker. These professional services help Fortune 1000 firms to build enterprise agility best practices into human capital, business, and technology infrastructures to raise the bar on business performance through business rule and process governance. AEM services help firms to make dramatic top-line and bottom-line performance breakthroughs known as business transformations.

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Philip Wilson
RuleSphere International, Inc.
Telephone Number:(978)456-8253
Info@RuleSphere.com
http://RuleSphere.com
RuleSphere Builds Enterprise Agility
Harvard, Massachusetts, USA October 15, 2002
RuleSphere International, Inc. today announced the availability of a unique portfolio of management and technical consulting services that are aimed at building enterprise agility into business operations and information systems. The services are available immediately and will be marketed under the Agile Enterprise Managementsm (AEMsm) moniker. The AEMsm services are targeted at Fortune 1000 companies that strive to transform their organizations into more efficient and customer-responsive businesses through core changes in how the business operates. Specifically, RuleSphere helps business and information technology professionals to jointly address enterprise agility through business disciplines that promote business management flexibility and agility.
RuleSphere concentrates on driving business agility best practices" into all three types of enterprise infrastructure; human capital, business, and technology. This balanced and holistic approach unlocks enterprise agility by aligning these three infrastructure domains in support of each other. RuleSpheres approach also increases business integration internally across the enterprise as well as with external partners. Lastly, it institutionalizes systemic change within the organization for long-term operational and financial gains. Overall, RuleSpheres Agile Enterprise Managementsm services help raise the bar on business performance by using enterprise agility as the central theme, and providing a structured approach for achieving business rule and process governance.
When you ask a typical executive of a large Fortune 500 corporation what capability they would most like their corporation to achieve over the next five years, you often hear a pattern in their responses, 'improve customer service, or increase worker productivity. However, when you step back and look at the underlying root causes associated with these desires, you notice that the top requirements usually relate to decreasing the time needed to respond to business opportunities and threats, as well as increasing the levels of enterprise integration internally and externally. Other business requirements such as regulatory compliance and reporting also call for rapid and consistent enterprise response times. Theyre talking enterprise agility!", says Phil Wilson the Founder and President of RuleSphere International. Enterprise agility is largely tied to business rule and process governance. Business processes, workflow, collaborative business practices, parallel ways-of-working, and Concurrent Enterprising, or cross-enterprise collaboration, are all tied to underlying business rules and business processes.
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Thats our sweet spot. We architect a business transformation with our clients by using these core concepts. Then, we can leverage the firms business rule and process knowledge to build automation into the business where it makes good business sense."
RuleSpheres professional services also address and complement two of todays hot technologies that enable enterprise agility, Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Rule Management (BRM). These technologies can help with business transformation... IF they are implemented as a component in an enterprise-wide business improvement program, and not solely as a technology quick fix.
To achieve a true 'business transformation, the business culture and the ways-of-working need to change" said Wilson. We learned this lesson over the past 7 years when ERP system implementations often failed to live up to expectations. These investments were often considered as 'technology quick fixes and the companies who have gone through a technology-centric approach know that its a big mistake. Thus the primary success factor in deploying BPM and BRM technologies (and other enterprise software) is to tie the technology into a business improvement initiative that the entire enterprise can benefit from over the long term. This is where RuleSphere can provide tremendous leverage", added Wilson.
RuleSphere defines 'program success as the rate, depth, and breadth of business culture change; i.e. the ability of an enterprise agility program to infuse business thinking, strategy, and operations with business rule and process understanding. These are important drivers for increasing the strategic value and profitability of the enterprise over the short and long terms. Business professionals and information technology professionals share a common bond in making this business culture change a reality, because business rule and process understanding are so important to basic operational and financial business performance. Also, progressive companies now often formalize business rule and process ownership, responsibility, and accountability under a stewardship" framework. The stewardship element is of significant importance to our clients as it nails down who is responsible for mission-critical business rules and business processes" says Wilson, and one that we strongly believe in. It serves as a roadmap for companies that want to raise the bar on their business performance, while addressing todays business pain. In addition to business rule and process stewardship, companies are realizing that other human capital infrastructure programs make a lot of sense. For instance, structured programs that address Recognition & Reward" and Pay-For-Knowledge" further increase program effectiveness, as they solve the one key factor that often is a big stumbling block; employee motivation. These program components can help make an enterprise agility program a big success by building a business culture that respects and rewards business rule and process knowledge."

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RuleSphere International, Inc. is a new management and technical consultancy that was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Harvard, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in building enterprise agility into mission-critical business operations to return dramatic top-line and bottom-line financial and operational returns. Business rules are the foundation for building core business and process knowledge, hence the RuleSphere name. RuleSphere assists Fortune 1000 firms in architecting business improvement initiatives based on core principles encompassing business rule and process governance. The RuleSphere approach was designed to add value to Business Rules Management (BRM) and Business Process Management (BPM) automation technologies by helping to position these technology-based solutions in a business improvement context. The RuleSphere philosophy is to work in partnership with clients to select the right business improvement program alternatives that address enterprise agility. Then, implement these in well-structured programs that align human, business, and technical infrastructures. This approach reduces program risk, and helps a company achieve a major breakthrough in business performance, or what is known as a business transformation".

For Additional Information Please Contact:
Phil Wilson, Founder and President
RuleSphere International, Inc.
Tel. (978)456-8253
E-Mail: phil@RuleSphere.com

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