Enterprise Personal Analytics: Embracing the Potential, Avoiding the Pitfalls

摘要

Global businesses are increasingly embracing the use of personal digital technology in the workplace. Wearable technologies, for example, are providing capabilities that are completely new to mainstream business practices (e.g., Tobii's EyeX, SMI eye-tracking glasses).20 While the application of EPA in an industrial setting remains a relatively niche practice, we believe its impact will fundamentally change the industrial landscape. Ultimately, industrial sector organizations will be at the forefront of the EPA drive with, according to Davenport, "the bulk of data from emanating sensors within an 'the industrial Internet,' comprising a very large number of networked devices in plants, transportation networks, energy grids, and so forth."21 We believe that if organizations behave appropriately and build a culture of trust, companies and workers (and customers) will become acclimatized to capturing and analyzing their personal data within an enterprise setting. Organizations need to proactively prepare themselves for this change, as EPA is coming soon to a company near you!