Workflow

I’m always looking for words that are breaking out of their normal useage and being applied in fresh ways. It feels to me like workflow, is such a word. It caught my attention when Propellerhead announced that worklow enhancements would be a key feature of the the new version of their Reason music software. Today whilst reading David Flinch’s thoughts on personal productivity, I was linked to David Allen, workflow guru.

My feeling is that we will see workflow start to crossover more into discussions about lifestyle (not just geekware and discussions about work/life balance. As more and more people try to get better productivity out of their work at home experiences together with managing the demands of a portfolio career, workflow will become a more used term, skipping from discussions of process, to a more general discussion about how we move through the different and often fragmented bits of work that litter our progressively less cohesive days.