The basic hypothesis of our work is that a platform for explicitly representing activities as personal and social structures will provide many benefits, from individual productivity and interpersonal coordination to organizational learning and adaptation.
Personal Benefits
- People, tools and resources can be brought easily to hand
- Diverse activities can be managed in a common way
- Prior work cases and work patterns can be reused more easily
- An explicit shared representation of an activity improves awareness and coordination
- Lets the team flexibly restructure work to adapt to contingencies
- Helps communicates status across teams and to management
- Provides a way for the enterprise to refine their processes by monitoring and analyzing what really happens
- Best practices can be embedded in activity patterns that improve work and organizational learning
- Activity-based audit trails can be captured to make reporting and regulatory compliance easier
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