🚫 Business Decision ≠ Business Rule.
I get this a lot to compare Business Decisions vs Business Rules. Let me make it straight, they are not the same. Don't mix them.
A decision is a logical (or emotional) judgement of a subject. A rule?
Just one tile in the path. You can have piles of rules and still not know what decision you're making which is called the “big bucket of rules problem”. The business rules are granular. They validate, constrain, enforce.
Decisions are bigger and they conclude things. Think “Approve Loan” not “Check Age”. Business decisions live at higher levels of abstraction. They depend on rules, sure! but also the data, events, sequences, calculations and etc. The whole context. Not just criteria and output.
💥 Here's the kicker: Business Decisions enable rules, data, machine learning, optimization and other techniques to do their job in the right situation within the right context. Therefore, we measure decision's metrics that they influence business KPIs.
Business KPIs are directly related to business decisions performance. You don't measure a rule for understanding business performance. You measure the outcomes they helped produce.
The Bottom line is Business rules ≠ Business decisions. Stop treating them like synonyms. They're not.
💡Focus on the decision. That's where the value is.
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Published June 5th, 2025 at 07:30 am
