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Name: <br>
<h2> Description </h2>
Increasing performance measurement via technology
Monitoring performance in the workplace using technology


Description: <br>
<h2> Enablers </h2>
Data mining has had a long history as a marketing tool, and this trend continues to increase. to monitor and control worker performance and productivity [1]. Increasingly, data mining packages are intuitive and easy to implement, enabling organizations to lower their investment and maintenance costs in using these tools for human resources.  
1. Better Visualization Technology <br>
Over the past decade, the art of visualizing large datasets has developed in to nearly a science. This will enable organizations to track worker performance at a glance. New techniques are available for viewing statistical trends, and detecting outliers [http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/2007-brynjolfsson.php]. <br>


Enablers: <br>
2. Rise of cloud-based services <br>
1. Better Visualization Technology
As in the [http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Increasing_Online_Collaboration Increasing Online Collaboration] Driving Force, cloud based services may play a role in performance measurement, since they centralize and re-distribute processing power so that processing of large data sets need not occur on a . Increasingly, cloud-based data mining packages are intuitive and easy to implement, enabling organizations to lower their investment and maintenance costs in using these tools for human resources. Customer Relationship Management firms such as Salesforce.com have taken to this model for managing external relationships, and may be a matter of time before internal relationships and workflows are routinely monitored as well.
Over the past decade, the art of visualizing large datasets has developed in to nearly a science. This will enable organizations to track worker performance at a glance. New techniques are available for viewing statistical trends, and detecting outliers [2].  


2. Rise of cloud-based services
<h2> Inhibitors </h2>
As in the Driving Force above, cloud based services play a role in data mining for performance measurement, since they centralize and re-distribute processing power so that processing of large data and workflows are routinely monitored as well.
1. Privacy concerns <br>
Performance measurement is frequently a sensitive and contentious subject, and with the highly granular view that technology based performance measurement provides, concerns will likely be raised about potential abuse of data and overall worker privacy.  


Inhibitors: <br>
<h2> Paradigms </h2>
1. Privacy concerns
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Performance measurement is frequently a sensitive and contentious subject, but with the highly granular view that technology based performance measurement provides will likely raise concerns about potential abuse of the data and overall worker privacy.
Paradigms:


Experts: <br>
Impact on Education: In a highly competitive paradigm, as governments tend towards standards based measurement in education, they may consider such monitoring of students in classrooms as a way to keep students focused and measure where they stand. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing Computer Adaptive Testing] is now commonplace in graduate level standardized tests. It may be a matter of time before performance measurement pervades deeper into education and becomes adopted at the primary and secondary levels as well.
1. MIT Center for Digital Business. http://ebusiness.mit.edu/
 
<h2> Experts </h2>
1. MIT Center for Digital Business. http://ebusiness.mit.edu/ <br>
2. Association for Computing Machinery. http://www.acm.org/
2. Association for Computing Machinery. http://www.acm.org/
Timing:
The trends of online collaboration are well underway and may be expected to increase as the workplace becomes more connected and data mining tools become cheaper and easier to use.


Web Resources: <br>
<h2> Timing </h2>
1. A Tour through the Visualization Zoo. Association for Computing Machinery. 13 May 2010. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128
2. Understanding Productivity in the Information Age. MIT Sloan News Room http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/2007-brynjolfsson.php
 
<h2> Web Resources </h2>
1. Understanding Productivity in the Information Age. MIT Sloan News Room http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/2007-brynjolfsson.php <br>
2. A Tour through the Visualization Zoo. Association for Computing Machinery. 13 May 2010. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128 <br>

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