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Workflow and planning tools treat work as a hierarchy of tasks,
managed from the top and stored on a central server.
This disempowers knowledge workers and prevents natural cross-boundary collaboration.
Case management and content management tools treat work as a collection of data and documents,
created ad-hoc and stored on a central server.
This disempowers managers and again prevents natural cross-boundary collaboration.
By contrast, HumanEdj is an object-oriented approach to process definition and execution.
HumanEdj treats work as a network of Plans,
in each of which people have responsibilities to
help meet individual and shared goals:
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Each Plan in a network has an owner with overall responsibility, but
each person in a Plan has their own
copy in which they manage their
own part of the work - thus meeting organizational concerns
while
empowering knowledge workers.
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HumanEdj uses messaging to synchronize all the copies - thus allowing people in a Plan to
take part via their own servers (or even via regular email) if they wish.
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