How do the attendees at this year’s Adobe Summit conference feel about work?

Do they feel like their coworkers can effortlessly see their contributions? Do they feel like they have a clear sense for what other departments at their company are doing? Do they feel overwhelmed by the pace of

You’ve heard the old saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But with process management, you may want to throw that saying out the window. In business, things don’t have to be broken in order to benefit from regular and even constant improvement. In fact, constant improvement is often the best

If you’re like the average knowledge worker, you check email and IM every 6 minutes. An alarming 40.1% of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools, the dangers of which are well established. And you use 56 different apps and websites per day, switching between them nearly 300 times.

Tightly controlled management processes don’t happen by accident, and they’re never complete. As NASA heartbreakingly realized in 1986 with the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, all processes, major and minor, come together to create the whole. History shows a seemingly straightforward decision

By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Manager of Communications at Workfront

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It’s pretty well established that modern digital culture is not great for our brains. Humans have evolved over centuries to be really great at doing one thing at a time. And now, over the course of just a few decades, we’ve

This is the second post in our new series on experts who have mastered modern work. Subscribe to our blog to get on-the-ground advice from work management experts like Josh Blackwood, principal technology solutions consultant at ADP (featured below). 

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Josh Blackwood has always had an interest

By Jordan Staples | Director of Training at Workfront

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Steven Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers tells the story of Lt. Winters and the 11 men of Easy Company from the 101st airborne division.

One week before the invasion on Normandy, the 101st airborne division was shipped to a camp where they

By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content at Workfront

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Whether you work in marketing, information technology, product development, professional services, or a number of other departments, you likely have to manage digital assets.

The problem is that there are hundreds of ways to go about this

To risk stating the obvious, work today is stressful. The digital transformation is driving a culture of distraction and interpersonal disconnection. The pace of work is speeding up. And the ability to remain constantly connected to the office makes us feel like we’re never unplugged.

Can you

By Jon Ogden, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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Warren Buffett is fond of saying, "You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

There’s a reason Buffett’s fond of saying it. This philosophy has led him to a life of

By Shelbi Gomez | Senior Communications Manager at Workfront

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Usually when we write about workplace visibility on this blog, we focus on organizational visibility and transparency—the ability to know who is working on what, to see and manage the capacity and momentum of a team, and to

By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Communication Manager at Workfront

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Visibility is increasingly vital in the modern workplace, as we continue to grapple with accelerating automation, digital transformation, and the changing nature of work itself. I’m not referring here to making yourself and your