Comments for Crossing Signals Weblog

Comment on Same emperor, new clothes by Roeland Loggen

Roeland Loggen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:08:00 +0000

Hm. Interesting post. Although I agree that Cordys for some part is still to much focused on production workflow, their attention is also growing towards supporting knowledge workers. If you followed the presentation and demo on the new case management functionality, you could see that a newer (but not yet fully integrated ) part of Cordys provides functionality that support knowledge workers with a more free-form process support and document management support.
But agree – I also wait until BPM technology is better able to grow the productivity of knowledge workers…
- Selecting process fragments you want to do
- Adding own tasks
- Assessing own status
- Identifying risks and current issues and tracking them
- Assigning tasks to others, including monitoring
etc.

Regards,
Roeland Loggen
process-transformation.blogspot.com

Comment on Same emperor, new clothes by Ian Tomlin

Ian Tomlin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:38:00 +0000

Mathijs,

this is a great assessment of the way the world is today and the absence of an information worker focus towards technology. With all of this great new technology, most workers are still left using spreadsheets, word documents and emails. That is why encanvas is so different to Cordys. It is designed specifically FOR information workers to serve themselves but still has the enterprise robustness and ability to gather data from multiple sources and manage data effectively in databases. The challenge for encanvas is that IT is bought by people that think Cordys is leading edge. I think it will take technology that formalises information flow and social networks to wake up users to the fact that they can use technologies like canvases to serve themselves.

Comment on added Value creation by Colby

Colby — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:45:00 +0000

Don't be so hard on yourselves! I was there and really enjoyed myself. We all learned something from Valeri and the discussions. From what I have experienced in my 18 years living here, the most difficult thing to learn in Dutch groups is to get loose and play. Too much broadcast and blah blah. People just need a bit of space to engage and play with the ideas that get presented. If that's what you learned - then that's powerful.

I enjoyed myself and enjoyed meeting the people that participated. Wish we had had more time to talk to everyone. You can read my review of the evening on my blog

Comment on Moving out of our comfort zone by Ton

Ton — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:19:00 +0000

Indeed, learning how to celebrate diversity is key and difficult. Because it lies in our nature to look for the overlap and form a group.

Usually we look for overlap in the most visible aspects of our lives. Lives in the same neighbourhood, same lifestyle, enjoys same entertainment etc. Maybe we can keep the diversity if we pin that overlap down somewhere else. We need that overlap or otherwise we have no relationships.
Can the overlap be in more abstract spaces like our core values (and from that start recognizing our different ways of expressing them), or even in something more abstract like the shared curiousity about eachothers core values (and from that start recognizing our different core values).

In short, where to put the point of stability, and are we able to put it outside the scope of where we want to leverage our diversity.

Comment on What do you want to become when you grow up? by Gary Freedman

Gary Freedman — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:53:00 +0000

I’m almost 52, and still haven’t decided what I want to be.

Comment on Full circle by Colby

Colby — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:56:00 +0000

I think you’re in a distillation process. With all the thinking, philosophy and new collaboration tools , you’re playing with who you are in context of a very dynamic period of evolution in communication practices. At some point after you’ve absorbed as much as you can hold, you’ll begin to squeeze that juice into a distiller. The tasty result will be something people can see and taste and understand – then they’ll know the role you can play for them.

Comment on Everyday life by Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:51:00 +0000

You can see this in podcasting…just giving people equipment and server space is not enough. You need to start, stimulate and sustain various conversations…that means surprising people. You need to be a storyteller to do that. Not everyone can tell interesting or relevant stories.

Comment on Everyday life by Colby

Colby — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:39:00 +0000

It won't just happen, Rudy. From our 19 month experience, we've had our ups and downs and learned a lot. That's why we're living proof when we work with clients on this level.

There are some really basic issues to address, agree upon and then work out training time for everyone to get on same page and experience sharing. Start with the forum because this is the space that will help you build relationships on issues or topics with one another.

Whose platform did you eventually choose?

Comment on Do we need a common enemy release 2 by Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:35:00 +0000

Don’t quite understand your arguments about the Publieke Zaak (which I think is nearer to In The Public Interest). Apart from the fact that the website of PZ is obviously not working as a discussion forum (1 discussies laatste bijdrage gepost: 05 May 2004 13:25 ) they don’t know how to use social software to broaden their discussion beyond the Rotterdam office of PWC.

I think the US operates on the basis of needing an enemy. Look at the book “The Pentagon’s New Map”

http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/published/pentagonsnewmap.htm

Have you also followed John Robb’s weblog on Global Guerillas? Fascinating….but a bit beyond the guys at PZ I fear.

Comment on Qapla’ by Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:32:00 +0000

Paul told me he had written his own front end for the presentation because he has also discovered Powerpoint to be useless at firing videos on cue. I am experimenting with Flash 8 to see if I can do the same thing. I will write my comments on the Cordial event later today. Jonathan