Olaf, Author at artificialmanagers.com

2024-04-17 Businessplan

You have an idea for a business: how should you build an organizational structure?

Every company, even with a dozen or so employees, should have an organizational structure where employees can find their position and see who is responsible for what and to whom. An organizational structure consists of an organizational chart and job descriptions. I will briefly introduce you to these two issues that you need to think about before starting a company. First – job description Each of the anticipated associates or employees should have clearly defined four characteristics: The above features

2024-04-13 Strategy manager

Why should you have a vision for your company?

Surely you have heard of such a thing as a company vision. Of course, you’ve heard that there is such a thing, that it would be appropriate to have one, to arrange it, to formulate it. Just what is it actually and why does anyone need such a “thing”? On top of that, we are often confused about the difference between vision and mission, and mission is confused with strategic goals, so let’s start from the beginning. Do you realize

2024-04-12 Other research

Why is the term “artificial leadership” not used in the literature?

There are two terms that were invented almost 40 years ago: artificial management and artificial leadership. I wrote about the first one a few days ago. The second – artificial leadership – is even more puzzling. When you type such a phrase into the Web of Science database, these words almost never appear side by side. We have various combinations of these words, e.g. LEADERSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TIME, LEADERSHIP IN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ERA, but artificial leadership in the

2024-04-10 Businessplan

You have an idea for a business: why do you need to think about organizational structure?

Hiring employees is a big cost for Nowak. If, on the other hand, he wants to set up a company, he has to share the profit earned with the partners. In both cases you will need a good organization of work and division of tasks When constructing a business plan for a venture, you must not only plan the products, how to inform customers about them, your mission and your suppliers, but also the organization inside the company. If he

2024-04-08 Other research

When did the term “artificial management” first appear?

Are you familiar with this quote? “Artificial management by computers and expert systems–can perform pre-established, well-defined managerial tasks. Many technical and procedural decisions are best made by artificial managers. And what of the human managers? They are free to devote more time and energy to ambiguous, integrative areas such as strategy.” These sentences come from an article by E. Geisler, who in 1986 began a discussion on whether a robot manager could replace a human manager. See this article: Geisler,