Most people in the corporate environment would have a problem with their bosses snooping their e-mails. Nevertheless, we know this happens every day because the employers want to make sure their employees are not screwing off and wasting company time. Every CFO knows that productivity in the workplace, or office environment is paramount to profits. Now then, I have another question, one that you have not considered yet regarding this issue.
My question is this; what if your employer was snooping your e-mails and looking for ideas which you had when corresponding with various vendors, customers, or other employees? That is to say what if your employer had an algorithm, which searched for keywords in e-mail correspondence that could give them insight into innovative ways to modify their products or services? Would you as employee be upset about something like that?
In other words, they are not looking to get you in trouble, rather they are looking for ideas and innovations which will help the company do better in the marketplace, become more efficient, and help the company achieve its quarterly objectives, while increasing shareholders equity.
There was an interesting article posted in MIT's Technology Review titled "Extracting Business Ideas from IT Logs Software finds hidden business insights in Web and phone logs, e-mail, and network traffic," posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 by Tom Simonite.
Indeed, I find this very interesting because as the coordinator for a think tank which operates on the Internet, it always occurred to me that perhaps we should have an algorithm that searches through all the e-mails to find the smartest humans amongst us, and perhaps hire them to help with legislative, judicial, military, and executive decisions in the government.
What if businesses, corporations, universities, nonprofits, and government agencies started doing this with all their employees? And what if Google came up with a similar system to find innovative ideas, would anyone really want their data anonymized in that case? Chances are they wouldn't, chances are they would like to participate in such a program, and perhaps in the future get paid for their ideas, or get a small stipend, royalty, or kudos for their innovative ideas and concepts.
It's not that I wish to suggest that we should by spying on the American people, but since we already are (NSA) and I think everyone knows that, maybe we should start looking for the good guys, as well as the bad guys? Indeed, I hope you will take this thought on a philosophical basis, and please consider what I've said here today.
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.
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My question is this; what if your employer was snooping your e-mails and looking for ideas which you had when corresponding with various vendors, customers, or other employees? That is to say what if your employer had an algorithm, which searched for keywords in e-mail correspondence that could give them insight into innovative ways to modify their products or services? Would you as employee be upset about something like that?
In other words, they are not looking to get you in trouble, rather they are looking for ideas and innovations which will help the company do better in the marketplace, become more efficient, and help the company achieve its quarterly objectives, while increasing shareholders equity.
There was an interesting article posted in MIT's Technology Review titled "Extracting Business Ideas from IT Logs Software finds hidden business insights in Web and phone logs, e-mail, and network traffic," posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 by Tom Simonite.
Indeed, I find this very interesting because as the coordinator for a think tank which operates on the Internet, it always occurred to me that perhaps we should have an algorithm that searches through all the e-mails to find the smartest humans amongst us, and perhaps hire them to help with legislative, judicial, military, and executive decisions in the government.
What if businesses, corporations, universities, nonprofits, and government agencies started doing this with all their employees? And what if Google came up with a similar system to find innovative ideas, would anyone really want their data anonymized in that case? Chances are they wouldn't, chances are they would like to participate in such a program, and perhaps in the future get paid for their ideas, or get a small stipend, royalty, or kudos for their innovative ideas and concepts.
It's not that I wish to suggest that we should by spying on the American people, but since we already are (NSA) and I think everyone knows that, maybe we should start looking for the good guys, as well as the bad guys? Indeed, I hope you will take this thought on a philosophical basis, and please consider what I've said here today.
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Should-Corporate-Think-Tanks-Scan-IT-Logs,-and-Data-Mine-for-Innovative-Ideas?&id=5974141
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