My research

Can a universal artificial manager be designed to replace all managers?

As part of a research project I carried out together with researchers from the University of Siegen, Germany, we investigated whether managers are similar enough in terms of their behavior to be able to build a universal team manager. Implicitly: so that you can buy one for yourself in a store! We published the results from our experiments in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, and I will present some conclusions below. First, to simplify the analysis, we used data

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How to use TransistorsHead.com management tools to record what a manager really does? Part 2

In a previous blog post, I posted a list of manager tools that you can test on the TransistorsHead.com platform. If you’d like to get your login information, email me. And today I’ll show you sample results of the research I’ve been doing for several years using these online managerial tools. The article, which you can read in full and which you’ll find at the bottom of this post, was published in 2018 in the International Journal of Contemporary Management.

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How to use TransistorsHead.com management tools to record what a manager really does? Part 1

Have you ever wondered how you can record the work of a manager and his team? Of course, it probably comes to your mind to simply set up a camera, turn on the microphones and record the work of a team in some company. However, such a recording would have at least two serious drawbacks that would eliminate the results of that recording as material for building an artificial manager. First, the recording, even made with several cameras, would not

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Who wants to buy a double manager? Part 3

In previous posts I described how you can make yourself a double manager. “To yourself” I write in quotation marks, because of course it is not a task for one afternoon, but it is also not very complicated. It only requires perseverance, knowledge of managerial techniques, knowledge of the System of organizational terms, programming skills, as well as pattern recognition techniques (supervised and unsupervised), machine learning… Add some self-discipline on the part of the manager and his team, so that

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Who wants to buy a double manager? Part 2

In a previous post, I wrote a 6-point list of tasks that need to be done to make an artificial manager. Although it looks quite simple and concise, underneath each of these points is a lot of conceptual work, design, engineering ideas and theoretical knowledge. As is usually the case, what looks simple or works simple, inside simple is not. Now I’ll show you graphically how this one will work your manager double. See the previous post for a list

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