Hitachi makes a Happiness Wearable? Not the type of Quantified Organization that Lee Bryant had in mind.

“According to Hitachi, apparently there is some kind of correlation between a person’s physical movements and their sense of happiness, which we guess sort of makes sense as someone who is happy will have more spring in their step, versus someone who is bored or down and who might just shuffle around the office, although will the sensor be able to pick up on that?”

I find some of it credible, but more in the sense of encouraging fitness which can have a relationship to mood. It could also work in the sense of activities like Walking and Talking (a la Nilofer Merchant ‘ s suggestion), but then it is essentially a Fitbit or Lumo Bodytech which are better sensors for movement, and posture, respectively.

HT Siegfried Lautenbacher of Beck et al Services

Hitachi Creates Wearable Sensor To Measure Employee Happiness
“Happier employees tends to lead to better output and more efficiency, but how do you know if your employees are happy or if they secretly resent you?…”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on February 14, 2015 at 07:47AM]

John Hagel (Deloitte Center for the Edge) and John Seely Brown describe how companies need to work beyond themselves. One example is GE Appliances starting micro-factories with small groups of people across roles focused on a single run, project or customer need. This is is very much like the French gearbox manufacturer, FAVI, I talked about last week at Enterprise 2.0 Summit (and well documented in several books). In my presentation, there is a natural evolution of social collaboration beyond processes, to cross-employee cooperation, and finally to ecosystems beyond.

Their article in Fortune magazine.

“Rapid advances in technology have led to more volatile demand for products and services, sudden shifts in customer expectations, and an overall need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. Companies that go it alone will struggle to find the talent and resources they need to compete. Businesses will need to work with others, those outside their walls, to do this.

“Companies need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. They cannot do this alone.”

-rawn