My first post of 2012 can not be delayed any further … so many things are commencing in the Adaptive Case Management world. In this post I will cover the first of three important upcoming event you might want to plan for: the 2nd Annual Adaptive Case Management Awards. Continue reading
It is a simple idea, but one of those key differences that makes all the difference. We all know the traditional process life cycle: design the process, automate it, measure performance, and cycle around to improve the design. Instead, we should completely throw the old process life cycle. Don’t design a process, but instead give people a tool they use to get work done. Then, after the fact, we look and see what the process was. Continue reading
There is a lot of discussion about what ACM should be, often talking about what a “user” will want. But there are many kinds of users who have many differing needs. To break out of this trap, I don’t use the term “user”. I use the term “case manager” or “knowledge worker” and when I say this, think of something like “artist”. Like author Dan Pink says, knowledge workers are creative people like artists. Continue reading
While Case Management has been a hot topic in the past year, there are various modifiers put in front of it: Advanced, Dynamic, and Adaptive. In this post I attempt to explain why “Adaptive” is the right concept and why that is so important. Continue reading
Max Pucher made an excellent post on “The Value of Failure” touching on a theme I have seen echoed around a bit lately. Knowledge work is not predictable. A professional will learn to do the right thing in the right situation, but along the way there are going to be some mistakes they learn from. The key to surviving in the coming decade will be a culture that accepts failure as a path to success. Continue reading
Yesterday Netflix announced a reversal: they are not going to split off a separate service named Qwickster. Some might view this as a flip-flop and a failure, but looking a bit deeper we see a quality that keeps Netflix at the top of their market: Agility. Continue reading
Yesterday’s post was about workers will use personal clouds to organize their information, their personal devices, for both home and work life. This is a general trend I am seeing toward personal services in the Internet that represent a given person. Let me propose an even more radical idea, one of managing your projects out of such a personal cloud. Continue reading
Craig Le Clair shared the stage this morning with Steven J Spear (author of the book “Chasing the Rabbit” and new book “The High-Velocity Edge“) to talk about complex business situations and how to support them. Continue reading
A quick review of a second article in Harvard Business Review this month on Complexity. This one is “Learning to Live with Complexity” by Gökçe Sargut and Rita Gunther McGrath. Continue reading
Just a quick note to bring your attention the September issue of Harvard Business Review, which is on complexity! Michael J. Mauboussin is interviewed in an article title “Embracing Complexity“. Continue reading
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