Difference between revisions of "Performance Measurement via Technology"
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<h2> Description </h2> | <h2> Description </h2> | ||
optimize worker productivity [http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128]. | |||
<h2> Enablers </h2> | <h2> Enablers </h2> | ||
1. Better Visualization Technology | 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]. | 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> | ||
2. Rise of cloud-based services | 2. Rise of cloud-based services <br> | ||
As in the Driving Force | As in the [http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Increasing_Online_Collaboration Increasing Online Collaboration] Driving Force, cloud based services may | ||
<h2> Inhibitors </h2> | <h2> Inhibitors </h2> | ||
1. Privacy concerns | 1. Privacy concerns <br> | ||
Performance measurement is frequently a sensitive and contentious subject, | 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. | ||
<h2> Paradigms </h2> | <h2> Paradigms </h2> | ||
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. | 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. | ||
<h2> Experts </h2> | <h2> Experts </h2> |