Two webinars, an interview/podcast, and a number of relevant links — all in the past couple of weeks. Here are the links Continue reading
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Automation leads to Forgetting
What is the limit of automation? We often think that automation is limited by the technical ability to construct the automation. It is not surprising that automation decreases the ability for those people to do the same job manually. Is there then a point that we should avoid automation in order to retain viable knowledge workers? Continue reading
Automation Elevating Workers, Not Eliminating
A new study from Oxford says that 47% of the jobs in America are at risk of automation. There is a lot of fear that a job automated is equivalent to a job eliminated. It is the same fear that fueled the Luddites, however history shows that fear to be misplaced then, as it is now. Automation drives a transformation of the workplace, not an elimination. Continue reading
Do Management Gurus Encourage Process Enforcement?
As part of the research for the last keynote I gave, I wanted to see how well known management gurus recommend supporting knowledge workers to be more effective. What I found was surprising and well understood at the same time. Continue reading
Is Management becoming Unnecessary?
Harold Jarche has a controversial slide cast this week titled “Subversive thoughts” which explores the relationship between the trends for supporting knowledge work, and the role of management as it is traditionally defined. Continue reading
Are Flow-to-the-work Organizations right for Knowledge Workers?
There is an article in Harvard Business Review this month about how companies are beginning to organize knowledge workers in a new way. The concept has been called a “flow-to-the-work organization” and it reflects a new way of thinking about how knowledge workers are held in relation to the company. Continue reading
Why you might need a ‘Business Crisis Inducer’
Is your organization running too smoothly? Is everything being handled with a minimum of fuss? Perhaps you need a ‘Business Crisis Inducer’ is a tool that causes randomized crisis events to challenge your organization. Sound crazy? It is not as crazy as you might first think. Continue reading
AdaptiveCM 2013 PC Co-chairs Message
The sign of our time is the amazing speed with which changes in the business world happen. This requires from the enterprises of today, and even more of the future to become agile, e.g. capable of adjusting themselves to changes in the surrounding world. Continue reading
Adaptability as a Competitive Advantage
One of the better summaries on how companies need to be adaptable is the Harvard Business Review article by Martin Reeves and Mike Deimler called “Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage“. Continue reading
Slidecast on Antifragile Systems, Innovation, and Learning Organizations
Here is a slidecast version of the talk I gave at BPM Next in March. In 14 minutes it explains the core ideas of antifragility and how learning organizations are antifragile. Mixed in are some surprising details about adaptive systems. This presentation will help explain why a traditional model-and-automate approach is the wrong thing for an innovative, learning organization. Continue reading
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