When I look over all the books I read last year, one stands out as having reformed my world view more than any other: “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshanna Zuboff. Continue reading
Here is a message from my friend, Robert Gilman, about participating with us on an open source platform for supporting a sociocratic organization. It is the most interesting thing I have been involved in for years. Continue reading
Google assumes that if you make a link to a site, then that is a worthwhile link to remember. Your link is a “vote” in increasing the popularity of that page in the search results. When a page contains false or misleading information, you don’t want to make that page easier to find. That is where DoNotLink comes in. Continue reading
In a post titled “Business Etiquette Modeling” I made a plea for modeling business processes such that they naturally deform themselves as needed to accommodate changes. If we model a fixed process diagram, it is too fragile, and can be costly to manually maintain. While I was at the EDOC conference and the BPM conference, I saw three papers that introduce innovations which are not completely defined solutions, they represent solid research on steps in the right direction. Here is a quick summary of each. Continue reading
The concept of “zero code” is the wish-fulfillment myth of the BPM industry. Many advertisements will claim that the processes can be designed without any coding. This complete hog-wash. There is, however, a possibility for a zero-code system, but let’s imagine how that would have to work. Continue reading
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
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
The bane of social networking sites is the need to register one more username, one more password, and once more to fill in some sharable details. That is sooooo 2008. I am registering with a conference so I can select interesting presentations, and reminded once again how much I hate registering for sites. Continue reading
If you are sending information to a group of people, you should FIRST post that information on-line, and THEN you should email everyone about it. Today I experienced a classic violation of this guideline, and while the damage is not huge, it is so pointless. I am documenting this case as an example of what not to do. Continue reading
For me, the highlight of the Fujitsu Laboratories of America Technology Symposium 2012 was the panel on “Bandwidth, Online Education, and Learning” where many new trends in education — something near to my heart — were discussed. Continue reading
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