Talk: Helping Workers Help Themselves

CSIG (Cognitive Systems Institute Group) Talk — Nov 1, 2018 - 10:30-11am US Eastern

Talk Title: Helping Workers Help Themselves: Thinking in 4Tfor Al Applications

Speaker: Professor Terri Griffith , Santa Clara University

Abstract: We have excellent advice on how to reinvent jobs and apply automation within company boundaries, and even how to think about reinventing our personal work and careers given advances in automation. An added aspect to this is how we coach ourselves to think about the optimization of technology and practice throughout all aspects of our lives and work.

We see in 3D. Can we Think in 4T? The 4Ts:

Target: project and/or task goal
Talent: people are the glue holding pieces together
Technology: everything from basic tools (even furniture!) to hard automation, robots, and machine learning
Technique: the processes pulling together the work of the talent and technology

Kids are growing up with technology, but perhaps not with the foundations of how to be thoughtful about the use of that technology. Employees have almost complete access to the  personal technologies at work, but again, perhaps not the foundations of how to think about the applications of technology at work. The self-employed, given less access to formal  professional development, may similarly come to contract work with access to technology, but not frameworks for its most effective use.

This webinar is to help us think about these individual frameworks and how to share them inside and outside our organizations.

Bio: Terri L. Griffith (BA UC Berkeley, PhD Tepper - Carnegie Mellon) is a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. Her research addresses how people come to understand and use technologies in global teams and organizations, most recently focusing on artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, and freelancing. She has served as a senior editor for Organization Science, an editorial board member Of IEEE Transactions on Engineering and the Journal Of Managerial Issues, and associate editor for MIS Quarterly. Terri is the author of the award-winning general-audience book, The Plugged-ln Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive and has been named a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She is proud to be a crowd contributor to Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc.

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