Rather than simply documenting where a link goes, the goal is to model and start experiencing what moving around a site feels like as quickly as possible. sketch can be done at any time (and by anyone), regardless of where you are in the process. This isn’t just a list of designers and developers, it’s also clients and business analysts who are becoming more and more involved with the process. I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on.

We need more process centric methods in enterprise social computing to make way for the acceptance of more opportunistic tools such as social networks. The above paper is related to another article, Beyond predictable workflows: Enhancing productivity in artful business processes , which also explains the two ends of the specturum, using email for collaborative activities is clunky and not contextual, and using a centralised workflow system is to rigid and is not flexible to encompass the intricate flavours of all situations, there is calling to allow room for “artful processes”

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. ~ Viktor E. In this quote, Frankl suggests that goals are a pull system. Goals are indeed a pull system.  Goals come from internal processes.  We have Frankl In lean management, a pull system is a natural flow of activities driven by the natural pace of the work that produces value.  Today I stumbled across this quote from Viktor Frankl, whose book Man’s Search for Meaning is surely one of the top 10 influential books on my world view. 

Define Business Goals and Objectives As Process: Kickoff, Work Sessions, Interviews and Synthesis So, I've used the following process on the job at my former employer Autodesk, as well as in our services practice here at Forum One . The process starts with a kickoff meeting, continues with individual interviews with key stakeholders, includes follow up working sessions with a core team, and concludes with This post is part of an ongoing series about developing an online community strategy . As a reminder, all posts will be tagged #ocb2b

help with process failure, and The nature of knowledge work is that we deal with uncertainty and unique situations, we can only document so many official processes/procedures; often we need to bend these processes and use our thinking and conversation to respond or get things done on the fly. What’s happening is that wikis are actually replacing a process, they are becoming a new way to do group work. A while ago I posted that size doesn’t matter when it comes to effective communities. You don’t need a lot of members to make a community of practice

Not only did I agree with them, but these six were some of the exact same success factors we found for process centric KM in the early 90s, at least at the headline level. In addition, there is an historic continuity of the early process-centric KM and enterprise 2.0 when it is applied to business processes. I recently read the McKinsey report on s ix ways to make Web 2.0 work .

Define Business Goals and Objectives As Process: Kickoff, Work Sessions, Interviews and Synthesis So, I’ve used the following process on the job at my former employer Autodesk, as well as in our services practice here at Forum One . The process starts with a kickoff meeting, continues with individual interviews with key stakeholders, includes follow up working sessions with a core team, and concludes This post is part of an ongoing series about developing an online community strategy . As a reminder, all posts will be tagged #ocb2b

Change the fundamental goal, purpose or function of the system : If any of the financial gnomes are reading this, picture them starting to sweat very nervously. What if we stripped the goal of many investors (speculative gains in real estate and investments) by changing the very nature of investments (loans and shares) from speculative devices and entertainments to vehicles to achieve social justice, equity and conservation (of resources and the environment)? Thanks to Dave Pollard for this crucial reminder: “Dana Meadows published what is probably her most famous work, Places to Intervene in a System , in 1997.

These teams set short- and long-term goals, establish formal roles and structures, and assume vital organizational tasks. Clear purpose - The community sets and evaluates clear short-term and long-term goals. It might establish annual goal-setting and assessment processes or simply make sure the purpose of its work is clearly articulated. Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield KM Question, Thought Leader, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week [ Blogroll - KM Home Page - Send a Question - Implementing a successful KM programme ] KM Question of the Week Q: What advice do you have for leaders?

This is the role of social structures in the collaboration process, and the consequences of the different ways in which such structures arise. There is no magic recipe to achieve this list of goals. Electronic systems and elaborate work processes are nothing if human characters and relationships are not taken into account at every step. ...Tags: That was the title. The subtitle was “The challenge of sustainable socialisation”.