Category Archives: Adaptive Case Management

Effective Email Notifications

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

Every collaborative system needs some way to notify people of things that need attention. Email is by far the most ubiquitous option for reaching out to people.  Done well, email is an effective way to draw people in to work … Continue reading →

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Business Process Models are Not Agile

Posted on March 29, 2019 by

This is the final post on the problems of business process models for automating work, and one that sums it all up:  hand drawn business process models simply are not agile enough.

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Agreement Itself Holds Companies Back

Posted on March 27, 2019 by

In the last five posts I outlined five ways that business process models are dificient when it comes to automating work.  In this post I give a sixth, and quite possibly the most significant problem:  Agreement takes effort, and once … Continue reading →

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And CMMN as Well

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

We knew that BPMN needed fixing, but CMMN didn’t fix it enough.  This is another installment in the series on how we need to move beyond process models for automating work.  The last post pointed to limitations in BPMN, and … Continue reading →

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How BPMN Misses the Target

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

One bright hope for business process modeling, developed between 2003 and 2010, was the standard known as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). This would be the way to model businesses!  But today, most people use a simple flowchart in … Continue reading →

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Models and Organizations Don’t Mix

Posted on March 16, 2019 by

This another installment in the series pointing out the problems with using a hand-drawn business process model.  The last post was how a business process model fails in the promise to be easier than programming.  Even if you get past … Continue reading →

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Time to Stop Using Business Process Models

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

Whew!  It has been a few months since my last post in October on my way to the EDOC conference in Stockholm.  Presentations and papers went very well there, and I have been working on an entirely new concept.  It … Continue reading →

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