Taming the Unpredictable Real World Adaptive Case Management:
Case Studies and Practical Guidance

"The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity." Peter F Drucker

The core element of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is the support for real-time decision-making by knowledge workers. "Taming the Unpredictable" presents the logical starting point for understanding how to take advantage of ACM.

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Highly predictable work is easy to support using traditional programming techniques, while unpredictable work cannot be accurately scripted in advance, and thus requires the involvement of the knowledge workers themselves.

The core element of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is the support for real-time decision-making by knowledge workers.

"How Knowledge Workers Get Things Done "describes the work of managers, decision makers, executives, doctors, lawyers, campaign managers, emergency responders, strategist, and many others who have to think for a living. These are people who figure out...

Intelligent BPM Systems: Impact and Opportunity
iBPMS
"The need for Intelligent Business Operations (IBO) supported by intelligent processes is driving the need for a new convergence of process technologies lead by the iBPMS. The iBPMS changes the way processes help organizations keep up with business change," notes Gartner Emeritus Jim Sinur in his Foreword.
Co-authors include industry experts Keith Swenson, Nathaniel Palmer, Robert Shapiro, Setrag Khoshafian, Charles Webster, James Taylor, Pieter van Schalkwyk, Steinar Carlsen "et al"
Contents
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Empowering Knowledge Workers New Ways to Leverage Case Management Adaptive Case Management allows productivity improvements to be measured in both financial and non-financial terms, including reduced re-work, improved customer, and employee satisfaction. In part, by bringing areas of work previously "under the radar" when performed in purely ad hoc environments into greater visibility, Adaptive Case Management offers the ability to prioritize activities across multiple cases, balancing workloads, as well as monitoring quality, timeliness and speed. Highly predictable work is easy to support...

Adaptive Case Management is ultimately about allowing knowledge workers to work the way that they want to work and to provide them with the tools and information they need to do so effectively.

Surendra Reddy points out in his Foreword:
"Imagine a fully integrated ACM system layered into the value stream of an enterprise. The customer support team is able to focus on customer needs, with easy access to the entire company's repertoire of knowledge, similar cases, information, and expertise, as if it were a service. To truly accommodate customers, companies must vest real power and...