1. Defining business rules for digitalisation
Nordisk Juristmøde 2012

2. Who is this?
 Lars Nyberg
 Business Architect
 Modernisation Programme

3. Modernisation of company registration
 We are rebuilding and expanding most IT-systems
used for registration
 About 30 project between 2009 and 2015
 The Goal:
 Streamlining and automating business processes
such as company registration
 Reducing our manual effort and aiming at a high
degree of self-service

4. The Challenge of digitalisation
 We need rules that can be automated!
 Rules are ‘hidden’
 in legislation,
 in code
 inside the head of experts and case workers
 Difference in practices and interpretation of rules
 Some rules requires assessments and estimates
which cannot be automated

5. The solution
 Align and document rules in one place
 Simplify and clarify rules
 Establish minimum requirements and applicant
responsibility
 Make IT-systems with intelligent advice and alerts
 Introduce risk-based controls

6. What is a rule?
 Rules defines or constrains what can be done
 Ex:
 A company must have an address
 A public company must have at least DKK
500.000,- in registered capital
 A board of a public company must have at least 3
members
 Minimum requirements must be met before
registering a company
 Applicant must be informed when the company is
registered

7. The Holy Trinity of rules

8. Processes
 Rules about in which order actions are performed
 Describes ‘crossroads’ and where decisions are made
 Describes what initiates and ends a process

10. Concepts
 Rules about what things ‘are’
 Names and defines concepts used in a process or
decision
 Describes relations between concepts

12. Decisions
 Rules about how a decision in a process is decided
 Logical statements defining the criteria for decisions

14. Number of Number of Board chairmen Requirements for
If boardmembers
And Then company board
>= 3 is 0 or 1 is met

15. Future correlations
 Adding references between legislation and rules
 Adding references between IT-systems and rules