Antifragile

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

At the BPMNext conference in March, I am signed up to give a talk titled “Antifragile Systems for Innovation and Learning Organizations.“  The term “antifragile” comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new book “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.”  In this post I review the main concepts of the book. Continue reading →

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ACM Awards 2013

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

We are launching the third annual Adaptive Case Management Global Excellence Awards for 2013.  If you have an example of technology to support unpredictable collaboration, it is time NOW to get an abstract filed. You then have 2 months to get the final write up completed.  Don’t delay. Continue reading →

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Cloud, Security, and Big Data

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

So many top buzz words are wrapped into a single title because I am moderating a panel session on Thursday at the Fujitsu Technology Forum 2013 on exactly this topic with some members of the Big Data working Group, of the Cloud Security Alliance.  Continue reading →

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Rights to Link, Legality of Cache Substitution

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

The foundation of the web is the ability to embed links from one page to another page.  When writing about one topic, and you want to cite another work as a reference, the best possible way to do this is to make a like to that work: the reader can instantly load and view that other page.  But what about link rot?  What about when the link become broken, because the page on the other end is moved?  Last week I made a proposal to eliminate link rot, but this post is about the the right to use it. Continue reading →

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Care about Simulation?

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

Today’s question: do you care about simulation of business processes?  If you do, you probably should be aware of the recent developments of BPSim. Continue reading →

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Introducing the Web T-Link

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

The concept is simple: you want to make a web reference (HTML link) to an other web resource, but you don’t want that link to go bad.  This requires a web link, with just a little bit of smarts on the server, and so I call that a T-Link and it is a key capability for a collaboration system. Continue reading →

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Achieving a Stateless Workplace

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

Richie Etwaru makes a post about Human as a Service about the idea that everything / anything can be made available as a cloud.  To do so, we need to think about organizations that are stateless as opposed to stateful.  There is a parallel between stateless and unpredictable, and how statelessness allows processes to emerge, instead of being defined in advance. Continue reading →

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