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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Your boss replaced by a computer = better decisions?

Should you be managed by a computer? Douglas Heingartner at the New York Times tells us how a Dutch sociologist says yes:

The professor, Chris Snijders of the Eindhoven University of Technology, has been studying the routine decisions that managers make, and is convinced that computer models, by and large, can do a better job of it. He even issued a challenge late last year to any company willing to pit its humans against his algorithms.

“As long as you have some history and some quantifiable data from past experiences,” Mr. Snijders claims, a simple formula will soon outperform a professional’s decision-making skills. “It’s not just pie in the sky,” he said. “I have the data to support this.”

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