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
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
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
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
One of the best examples of an ACM system, one that received a gold award in this year’s Excellence in ACM awards, was the system developed by Computas for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The focus of this post is on how they achieved true end-user agility in their process plans. Continue reading
A basic assumption so central to running an organization that we never question it. What if it is impossible to collect process knowledge? The thought follows from Steve Denning’s excellent article “Can Knowledge Be Collected? Lessons From The Health Sector” in Forbes this month. Continue reading
A most interesting talk at BPMN2012 today was about case management, presented by Volker Gruhn on “Managing & Tracing the Traversals of Process Clounds with Templates, Agendas and Artifacts” from a short paper he did with his collegues from Essen: Marian Benner, Matthias Book, Tobias Brückmann, Thomas Richter and Sema Seyhan. They confirm all the design principles of ACM. Continue reading
What is the role of two-dimensional process graphing for knowledge workers in Adaptive Case Management (ACM)? It is a given that an ACM system must support some form of process plan. This post explores how a knowledge worker might specify a process plan, what are the requirements on that means of specifying, and what technical training requirements exist for the workers who specify the processes. Continue reading
The First International Workshop on ACM has move through the process of selecting the papers to be presented, and the 2012 program has been published. We are happy to announce that there were enough high quality papers to make it a full-day workshop. Below, I have duplicated the program, along with some comments about each of the paper topics. Continue reading
More products today claim to have Adaptive Case Management (ACM) capabilities. Do they have what it takes? Or are they simply just jumping on a bandwagon? It is a buyer-beware world. Apply the criteria presented in this post to a vendor’s product in order avoid dishonest representations. Continue reading
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