Big Think published this interesting interview with Richard Florida, which makes me ponder.
I agree with Richard Florida, that Creativity Work is and will be the driving force of present and future economic development.
I believe because of philosophical and metaphysical reasons that one of the abilities of humankind that makes them most human is their ability to create – to be creative. It is always stunning to see what humans can create.
The economic crisis is not a crisis for creative people. Yes, there are ups and downs in each life and career. But lack of ressources incites creativity with creative people, it always did. Therefore they will find better ways to solve problems as there are today. And these better ways will be more effective. And that’s what will account for the profits of tomorrow.
Why is this relevant for a BPM site? It is very relevant. The reason is, that we need to ask what BPM is able to do and if it is sufficient for what is needed for the creative worker, the knowledge worker.
In my opinion the answer is: “No”.
What is BPM good for? It is good for modeling standard processes for mainly repetitive work. This is not the creative work. The creative work is for most part unpredictable. That’s what BPM falls short of. But a growing share of the value of our economy is created in the creative class of workers – and the economic crisis even does give this a boost, as I believe. So – what will be the methods and tools that will help those people and improve their daily work experience? There is nothing to improve? Far from true. Do creative people execute processes? Not in the sense we understand it today. But still what they do is somehow related to what they did yesterday and will do tomorrow.
That should give us something to think about.