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
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
Achieving a Stateless Workplace
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
Post the Document on-line before Emailing it
If you are sending information to a group of people, you should FIRST post that information on-line, and THEN you should email everyone about it. Today I experienced a classic violation of this guideline, and while the damage is not huge, it is so pointless. I am documenting this case as an example of what not to do. Continue reading
Flipping the Workshop
I think it is time to start holding “flipshops.” I have been a big fan of flipping the classroom because it makes better use of teacher’s time, and the students benefit. The same thing can be brought to conferences and workshops. Continue reading
Two Languages Divide but don’t Conquer
There is a continual ongoing debate on how best to express how people plan to work together. Earlier posts make the case that two-dimensional graphical languages are inappropriate for knowledge workers. Many argued against this saying that these languages are still useful for process specialists. However, for unpredictable work, the knowledge worker must directly do the process planning. This post addresses the question of whether we might be able to use two languages in one system: one for the knowledge workers, and one for the business analysts. Continue reading
Yes, it really is about the Knowledge Worker
My position paper for the Adaptive Case Management Workshop was to propose that “BPMN is incompatible with ACM.” I got a lot of flack from the hard core BPM disciples In spite of clearly stating that ACM is designed for knowledge workers to create their own process plans, many many still believe that there will be a process professional creating plans for others. I sometimes feel as if I am having the following conversation: Continue reading
BPM Next (March 2013)
The BPM Next conference is being organized by two luminaries in the field as a chance to meet the other gurus. It is shaping up to be the most interesting event next year for thought leaders in business process management. Urgent: Last day for early discount is Nov 9, 2012 Continue reading
ACM for Home Medical Caregivers?
I attended the Future Salon meeting on Nov 1 at SAP Labs where they hosted three great short talks on the topic of the Future of Health. After a brief overview of the three speakers, I will focus on the one talk that I did not expect to see: a way for families to handle the unpredictable hurdles of caring for loved ones with special needs. Continue reading
Integrated Case Management – What is it?
Ran across this term and was wondering what it was. What I found was not what I thought of when I initially read the term. It is not a new term, Continue reading
Thinking Matters 