It is time again for the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Here are some highlights of talks from John Hagel, Clayton Christensen, Gary Hamel and others. Continue reading
Drucker Forum 2014 Update
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Category Archives: Adaptive
3 Innovative Approaches to Process Modeling
In a post titled “Business Etiquette Modeling” I made a plea for modeling business processes such that they naturally deform themselves as needed to accommodate changes. If we model a fixed process diagram, it is too fragile, and can be costly to manually maintain. While I was at the EDOC conference and the BPM conference, I saw three papers that introduce innovations which are not completely defined solutions, they represent solid research on steps in the right direction. Here is a quick summary of each. Continue reading
BPM2014 Keynote: Keith Swenson
I was honored to give the keynote on the second day of the BPM2014 conference, and promised to answer questions, so here are the slides and summary. Continue reading
Business Etiquette Modeling: a new paradigm for process
The AdaptiveCM 2014 workshop this past Monday provided a very interesting discussion of the state of the art in adaptive case management and other non-workflow oriented ways for supporting knowledge work. While there I presented, and we discussed, an intriguing new way to think about processes which I call “Business Etiquette Modelling” Continue reading
Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS)
The BPM 2014 conference, Sept 7-12, has been moved from Israel to Eindhoven Holland (because of unrest in the middle east) and I will be giving a keynote on Wednesday Sept 10. There will be an interesting workshop on Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems (BPCAS’14) on Monday, associated with a group called FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems). Continue reading
Organize for Complexity Book
Niels Pflaeging’s amazing little book, Organize for Complexity, gives good advice on how to create self managing organization that are resilient and stable. Continue reading
The third era of process support: Empathy
Rita Gunther McGrath’s post this week on the HBR Blog called Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History has a lesson for those of us designing business process technology. The parallel between management and process technology might be stronger than we normally admit. Continue reading
Wirearchy – a pattern for an adaptive organization?
What is a Wirearchy? How does it work? When should it be considered? When should it be avoided? What are the advantages? This post covers the basics elements of a Wirearchy. Continue reading
bpmNEXT talk on Personal Assistants
Here is a video from my presentation at bpmNEXT of March 2014 presenting the idea that in the future we might see a kind of agent, which I call a personal assistant, cloning and synchronizing projects such that the large scale processes actually emerge from the interactions of these agents. Continue reading
AdaptiveCM Workshop in Germany September 1
Things are shaping up for a really great workshop to spend a day talking about the latest research findings and possibilities for Adaptive Case Management. It will be September 1 in Ulm Germany. Continue reading
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