Ted Schadler from Forrester spoke on Wednesday at the AIIM Conference in a talk called “Provisioning Today’s Information Worker” on the subjects of content and mobile. What follows is my notes on the talk. Continue reading
I was really looking forward to the keynote by Clay Shirky, and I was not disappointed. The title of his talk was “To Make Sense of Data, First Make Sense of People“. Continue reading
Every day I get hundreds of email messages, and many of them have attached documents. To everyone of them, I want to send the following reply message: Thanks for Wasting Everyone’s Time. Continue reading
John R. D’Entremont interviewed me to put together an article called “Mastering the Unpredictable” on the Projects At Work website. You have to register to read the entire article, but it is free, and John has done a nice job of putting all the information together into a compelling article about the genesis of the book by the same title. Below is some of the questions and answers that we exchanged. Continue reading
A number of really good talks this week at Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. I took notes at a few, and here are my *very* rough summaries. Continue reading
John Hagel III co-author of the book “The Power of Pull” was invited on stage for a discussion with Dr. Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision about how companies are (or are not) adopting of social technologies at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara yesterday. I am a big fan of him and his latest book, so I took notes on how he sees companies resolving these difficulties. 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
Personal Cloud was the unusual subject of Frank Gillett’s talk at Forrester Forum this week. Traditional IT: prepare for something deeply disturbing, yet inevitable. It is important to understand this to see where Adaptive Case Management(ACM) will be going in the future. Look for a few related posts to come out soon. Continue reading
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
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