Can innovation be promoted through better processes? have not been able to find  any  regular correllation between well adopted innovation processes and actual innovation outcomes, and I’ve been looking pretty hard. want every knowledge worker to discover his or her own processes. James Gardner does not think so any more. MORE >>

And then the process begins again with new ideas and new ways of doing business being developed as the old ones become stale. For example, the S&P stock index in 2009 was 81% intangible assets, up from 17% in 1975. complexity Innovation Work Everything starts with an idea. This is the first of the four jobs – the Thinkers. MORE >>

Over time, to enable growth and efficiencies, more processes have been put in place. To compensate for its complicated processes, the enterprise attempts to shift to another paradigm, and tries to become a learning organization, putting significant effort into training. complexity Informal Learning Wirearchy MORE >>

When I look back over my long, relatively eclectic career, complex systems have been a common theme in all the activities I’ve been involved in.  It started in the 1960s, when I was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Chicago majoring in physics, - the study of complex natural systems.  Let me explain. Amazing.  MORE >>

The increasing structuring of work and organizational processes by forming project involves new challenges to the handling of knowledge work and expands the scope to generate innovations. The classic project management alone is less and less able to manage complex, uncertain, knowledge-based processes. Books complexity Work MORE >>