Just a quick post about an excellent article: “Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0” by Deb Lavoy arguing that these are not technological trends, but rather cultural trends. Continue reading
The book “Social BPM: Work, Planning and Collaboration Under the Impact of Social Technology” was released in June, and I became more enthusiastic the more I read. Here is my review of the chapters of this very timely book. Continue reading
Web site security is a very important issue to me. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with people who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 3 is about an experience I had with a public forum, and their justification for deviating from these guidelines. Continue reading
ACM is about “smarting up” the organization. When two businesses go into battle, the winner will be the one that can put the “most active brains on the front line”. Continue reading
In working with organizations on their processes, I consistently find that most people are truly surprised to find out how their process are necessarily complicated. Turning the question around, I started wondering “Why is it that we have the feeling that processes should be simple?” This belief is at the center of a key problem people have in process management. It represents a kind of blindness that keeps some from being successful in process management. For now, let me blame it all on Issac Newton. Continue reading
Who wants to go to Italy in June? There is a great opportunity to attend the Social Business Forum 2011 which is being held June 8 in Milan, Italy, where a number of thought leaders will be convening to discuss the latest in social business trends. Continue reading
The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) has inaugurated a new Global Excellence Awards program for Adaptive Case Management case studies to to recognize and focus upon knowledge worker scenarios. Early-bird submissions Feb 18, commitment due March 9. What is it all about? Continue reading
It seems like a platitude to say that team effectiveness is intertwined with individual effectiveness, but there is a surprising amount of sentiment contrary to this. I explore this, and explore an exciting new product in this post. Continue reading
This is a review of the book “The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion” by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison. Finally I find a book that speaks plainly about the dramatic change that we are going though, and how a fresh approach is needed to be successful. Continue reading
The 2011 BPM and Workflow Handbook will have a special topic of how business process is related to social technology. This series of handbooks is always filled with interesting and useful information, Continue reading
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