>> Martine?
>> So my research is in the area of organizational behavior.
And my main interest, what I'm really, spend a lot of time thinking about and
studying and trying to figure out is how organizations can learn better from what
they do in one part of the world, how they can transmit that learning so
that they can do better in their operations in another part of the world.
And of course it's people who are doing that, right?
So it's people who are learning from each other, who are collecting information and
experiencing and developing expertise in one part of the organization,
one part of the world.
How do they, how do other people,
especially in large distributed organizations, learn from that?
And so this is a very distinctive area in terms of people analytics.
It's kind of how do people work together better in order to get their work done?
So it's not so much the selection and hiring components,
which you guys think about a lot.
But really my focus is mostly on these collaboration elements.
How can people work together more effectively and
perform better as a result?
And so, again, people analytics provides a really wealth of
possible data to look at people collaborating because
previously we've just had to sort of observe what people are doing.
Are they talking to each other?
Are they making phone calls?
We've had some data, we can ask people in surveys some of this information.
But especially in large organizations, where there's a lot of stuff going on,
now we have increasing sources of data to enable us to really track how much people
are using databases to store what they know, that somebody
else can access from somewhere very far away, and maybe many months later.
We have all sorts of interaction forms,
communication through question and answer online formats.
And obviously through conferences and all sorts of other ways.
That we now are collecting data on to see where these things are effective and
are helping people to do their work better.
Or maybe they're just a time sink and you're spending way too much time
trying to kind of access these sources of information.
So trying to figure out what works and what doesn't work, what enables teams,
individuals, and the organization as a whole to collaborate more effectively is
really where my passion and interest in this field lies.
>> Yeah, and I think my motivation is fairly similar.
I mean I came at this from a study of employment relations and
there I really got into this because I think many of the things that Cade's
talking about that struck me.
Where do we spend our time?
At work.
Where does our money come from that enables us to live?
At work.
Who produces staff, people in jobs within organizations and
so to kind of, for me in order to understand what makes a good society or
bad society is really now how well does employment work?
How well is it organized?
Certainly the hope is that by better analytics, putting better data,
we can make better decisions, which would obviously be good for organizations,
but hopefully a big part of this will also be providing better places for
people to work where they will enjoy their work more and get more out of it.
So that's my hope for this field.