20 | Behavioral Analytics – Empowering Humans in the Age of Machine Intelligence

Today, Sawyer Kelly joins the discussion. Sawyer is currently a Workplace Analytics Consultant at Microsoft. If you haven't heard of workplace analytics, it is an analytics engine that runs on Microsoft's proprietary office 365 - that captures behavioral understanding of how people work in organizations - to help these organizations realize the bigger trends, to guide healthier and more productive workplace environments. Sawyer and his team, then take this data, and make recommendations for how organizations should change their cultures from meeting optimizations, to staffing models that limit off hour work times, all the way to cross department collaboration that drive additional creativity for the benefit of customers, business impact, and more distinctly, the protection of the businesses most important asset, it's people.Here are some highlights of the talk:-Top use cases that businesses are interested in around workplace analytics: creating capacity, growing mastery, orchestrating networks-Drilling down on collaboration overload: harnessing data to improve work life balance and harmony-Meeting sizes and lengths, the harbingers of engagement death-Top habits of high performance workers, and how to utilize extraction points in the analytics to apply across organizations - learning from within-The maturity curve of the Future of WorkThank you for listening!Resources:https://products.office.com/en-us/business/workplace-analyticshttps://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/ey-implementing-behavioral-analytics-to-drive-customer-value/%24FILE/ey-implementing-behavioral-analytics-to-drive-customer-value.pdfhttps://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/redefining-work-workforces-workplaces.htmlBooks:https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393061310/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_laXZCbZ84CKSHhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0062316095/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_-aXZCbTAAYZKYhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0300122233/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_ZgXZCbKBKAN62Podcasts:https://www.ted.com/podcasts/worklifehttps://samharris.org/podcast/http://freakonomics.com/https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958http://revisionisthistory.com/Learn more at www.thedatabinge.com Connect with Derek on LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter