Knowledge, skills and abilities of information systems professionals: past, present, and future
Information and Management
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Object-oriented modeling and design
Object-oriented modeling and design
Converging end-user and corporate computing
Communications of the ACM
A structural learning theory approach to problem solving: An investigation in software maintenance
A structural learning theory approach to problem solving: An investigation in software maintenance
Journal of Management Information Systems
MIS skills for the 1990s: a survey of MIS managers' perceptions
Journal of Management Information Systems
The ten most valuable components of an information systems education
Information and Management
Business engineering with object technology
Business engineering with object technology
Human-centered knowledge acquisition: a structural learning theory approach
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The Essence of Objects: Concepts and Terms
IEEE Software
Automating Workflows for Service Order Processing: Integrating AI and Database Technologies
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
The impact of object-orientation on application development
IBM Systems Journal
Strategic control in the extended enterprise
IBM Systems Journal
Integrating islands of automation
MIS Quarterly
Business Rule Management for Enterprise Information Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
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Group differences have often been cited between information system professionals and junctional-business professionals. Now perspectives of what constitutes business rules must be added to the list of group differences. In many organizations,junctional business professionals and information systems professionals disagree as to what constitutes a business rule. Functional personnel express business rules in terms of how business processes are defined and constrained. Alternatively, information system professionals view business rules in terms of the constraints that the rules place on manipulating the organization's data resources. Each of these perspectives is essentialfor the effective management ofafirm' s resources, but each perspective-independent of the otherfails to acknowledge the interreliance of business processes and the information systems that support them. This research develops a theoretical basis for this gap based on structural learning theory's definition of directive rule types: problem definition rules and solution rules. Structural learning theory is used to illustrate how these perspectives can be bridged. Based on the resulting model, the paper discusses the knowledge, skills and abilities that information systems professionals must have to enable bridging the gap.