Sensible Organizations: A Sensor-Based System for Organizational Design and Engineering

We propose a sensor-based organizational design system capable of measuring social interactions in the workplace. By combining behavioral sensor data with other sources of information such as text-mined documents, surveys, and performance data we can re-engineer organizations and make better informe...

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Main Authors: Olguin Olguin, Daniel (Contributor), Pentland, Alex Paul (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2011-07-13T20:35:24Z.
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