Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves. Those digital “selves” will shape how work gets done.
Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves
Better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more productive versions of themselves. Those digital “selves” will shape how work gets done. Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. Selvesware would deliver actionable, data-driven insight and advice on what to say, when to speak up, and with whom to network, for example, suggesting bespoke options for better communication, collaboration and facilitation. Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best and most productive selves.