By Charles Araujo
As we continue to instrument every facet of modern work, it’s beginning to enable data-driven management. The flip side of this data-driven augmentation, however, is that it may make the act of management the prime target for automation. Could it be that it will be the managers that go first?
There’s a new drinking game that is sweeping across after-work corporate watering holes.
Everyone takes turns guessing how long it will be until their job is automated out of existence. After every guess, everyone drinks.
There is a steady drumbeat of news and analysis that predict a certain demise of much of modern work. You could even put my last CIO article, “The ‘future of work’ in the digital era may not be what you think,” in that category.
These predictions have left many rank-and-file corporate workers trying to sort out what’s really happening and what to do next.
But while they sit at the bar drinking and commiserating, their managers are sitting somewhere in the corner feeling slightly sorry for their employee’s predicament and then silently toasting their good fortunes to have worked their way up the corporate ladder to safety.
The safety of corporate managers, however, may not be quite so assured.
In “Are you ready for the data driven management revolution,” I discussed the fact that as we continue to instrument every facet of modern work, it is beginning to enable what I called data-driven management.
The flip side of this data-driven augmentation, however, is that it may make the act of management the prime target for automation.
Could it be possible that it will be the managers that go first?
Read the entire article at https://www.cio.com/article/3334763/bots/why-a-computer-may-be-your-next-manager.html
