Tag: team management automation

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,

I started working on the artificial manager, which I call the robot manager, in 2007. The idea came when, during business training, I had the opportunity to meet people running similar companies, and some of them were doing well, and others were doing badly. Some complained about their employees, others praised them. Seemingly similar companies, operating in the same industries, had completely different results. I was then reminded of Peter Drucker’s famous saying, which, somewhat paraphrased, reads “There are no