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Category Archives: Knowledge Work
Complex Project Delay
I run large complex software projects. A naive understanding of complex project management can be more dangerous than not knowing anything about it. This is a recent experience.
Posted in Knowledge Work, Software
Tagged Case Management, complexity, planning, project management, software, Software Engineering
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AdaptiveCM 2015 Workshop Summary
So much planning, so much anticipation, and now the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM is over after one marvelous day. We had reserved some time at the end for a round table … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive Case Management, BPM, Knowledge Work
Tagged acm, Adaptive Case Management, Case Management, modeling, process diagram
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‘Fail fast, fail often’ is essential advice for innovators
Yes, it is a negative statement, but in uttering it, you desensitize the team to a harmful fear of failure. I am responding today to an article in The Globe and Mail titled “‘Fail fast, fail often’ may be the … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Work, Social Network
Tagged leadership, learning organization, management
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When Thinking Matters in the Workplace
In the 4 and 1/2 years since “Mastering the Unpredictable” introduced the idea of Adaptive Case Management to the world, a growing group of people have struggled to define what it really means to make use of this new emerging … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive Case Management, complexity, Knowledge Work
Tagged Adaptive Case Management, BPM, Case Management, innovation, management
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Drucker Forum 2014 Update
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.
Posted in Adaptive, Knowledge Work, Social Business
Tagged economy, global peter drucker forum, management, Peter Drucker
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Overautomation – the Value of Returning to Manual Work
I regularly post about the advantages of using natural (as opposed to artificial) intelligence in the workplace. I also carefully say that there are two kinds of work: routine work that should be automated, and unpredictable work that should not … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive, Agile, Knowledge Work
Tagged automation, human process, knowledge work
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How Relevant is the ‘Boundary Worker’ Idea?
IBM has suggested this new term, the Boundary Worker, as a middle point between a service worker and a knowledge worker. Is this really something new, or just the natural progress of a all workers in today’s hyper connected world?
