WorkSmart Asia: Global Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work Talks About Managing Teams With Code Halos

"When we work, where we work, how we work, who we work with, and how we manage are changing at a breakneck pace due to the emergence of the Code Halo economy,” says Paul Roehrig.

Roehrig, Malcolm Frank, Cognizant’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, and Ben Pring, Director, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, are the authors of Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business. Excerpts from the conversation:

“One of the most important recommendations is to manage your teams with code. It’s now imperative to hold yourself and your team accountable to a data-driven method of management by leveraging the massive amount of data swarming around you and your business processes.

Information must be generated, managed, and shared openly. As we note in the book, the key is working with your team to determine your own data management supply chain: what data is important to you, how is it captured, what analytics do you utilize to understand your data, and is it utilized—and even enforced—in key portions, of your management process. Managers who ignore this trend and try to wing it or fly solely by intuition will be in for a rough time.”

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