Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
Nadjia Yousif: Pourquoi considérer les technologies au travail comme des collègues
BCG's Nadjia Yousif designs and implements programs for large financial services institutions to adapt and thrive in an era of technology disruption. Full bio
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a new employee,
embauche une nouvelle employée,
millions de dollars.
went to go meet with her team members,
cette employée rencontre son équipe,
were ignored or dismissed,
after a few minutes.
après quelques minutes.
went quietly back to her desk,
discrètement à son bureau,
being put to use,
compétences ne soit mise à profit,
millions of dollars.
payée des millions de dollars.
who can't seem to catch a break
n'arrive pas à saisir sa chance,
make the well-meaning decisions
prendre la décision
dans une technologie
fail to live up to the expectation.
n'atteignent leurs attentes.
de technologies
that are never used.
qui ne sont jamais utilisés.
just being wasted each year.
qui sont gaspillés chaque année.
is high but not unreasonable
sont élevées, mais pas déraisonnables
bénéfices des technologies.
ce que les gens les utilisent,
genuinely better at their jobs.
dans leur travail.
the people on the front line,
gens chargés de l'appliquer,
these softwares and tools,
ces logiciels et outils,
par le nombre d'outils
at the number of tools
how to log into and use.
that guilt -- it's racking up,
culpabilité, s'accumule
itself into our daily working lives,
notre vie professionnelle quotidienne.
of jobs today in the US
aux États-Unis aujourd'hui
numériques de niveau intermédiaire.
travailler de nos jours,
to work with technology.
travailler avec la technologie.
with the right mindset.
avec la bonne mentalité.
that I've been toying with:
technologie comme un membre de l'équipe ?
like a team member?
personal experiment about this.
expériences sur le sujet.
from all different industries
tous les secteurs d'activité
les technologies comme des collègues.
their core technologies like colleagues.
de l'industrie de la restauration,
from the restaurant industry,
des enseignants, des banquiers,
that I would meet with
the structure of their teams
sous forme d'organigramme.
when it comes to organization charts.
parce que, s'ils sont bien dessinés,
because, if they are drawn well,
une idée des rôles de chacun
of what individual roles are
un organigramme typique,
qui représentent les gens.
that represent people.
team members are there.
rencontrées pour mon expérience,
that I met with for my experiment,
type d'organigramme,
les gens à qui j'ai parlé
technologie comme collègue,
their technologies as coworkers,
avec la bonne personne ? »
to the right person?"
travaillent-ils bien ensemble ? »
work well together?"
actually the team member
le membre de l'équipe
of a small catering company
entreprise de restauration,
who work at Bovingdons Catering Company.
Bovingdons Catering Company.
all of the customer interactions,
les relations avec les clients,
gère les activités internes.
who manages all the internal activities.
to the sales and operations directors.
des ventes et des opérations.
the software and the hardware
we can now explore
nous pouvons étudier
and the technology team members
et les technologies interagissent.
that I'm going to look for
and machine relationship
qui utilise la technologie
to do his or her job.
la plate-forme comptable.
the accounting platform would be one.
de leur collaboration.
of their collaboration.
a tenuous relationship.
était une personne,
were actually a person,
responsable de la gérer,
responsible for managing it
about a team-building activity,
de créer un esprit d'équipe,
on a specialist course.
scheduling regular performance reviews
des évaluations de la performance
would literally give feedback
laisserait ses impressions
really important human and machine teams
homme - machine
it's worth taking the time
faut prendre le temps
those relationships truly collaborative.
ces relations collaboratives.
for any human role
l'organigramme si quelqu'un
d'applications ou plus.
or more types of applications.
was interacting with five technologies.
interagissait avec cinq technologies.
débordé par son travail,
overwhelmed by his job,
cause des technologies qu'il supervisait.
of the technologies he was overseeing.
had a lot of people reporting to him,
sous sa responsabilité,
something about it,
to report to somebody else.
de réorganiser les technologies
moving some of the technologies
confié au chef.
regarder si une technologie
is any technology
without a real home.
de responsable assigné.
sans vrai responsable.
without an owner.
compte-rendus à trop de secteurs
to so many different areas
who's actually using it.
qui les utilise vraiment.
ne gérait le logiciel commercial.
the marketing software.
and then didn't give it a desk
sans bureau assigné
has been sidelined for a reason,
mises de côté pour une vraie raison,
qu'elles s'en aillent
to leave or be retired.
is something that all companies do.
applications are actually coworkers
comme des collègues
et comment les mettre de côté
to retire those applications
to the rest of the team.
avec 15 professionnels.
with 15 different professionals,
I was telling you about,
told to me by Christopher,
humaines très énergique
at a big consumer goods company.
une nouvelle plateforme RH,
for 14 months at great expense,
vedette, avec une réputation incroyable,
employee with amazing credentials,
to get to know it,
but to get to know their HR system.
de rubrique en rubrique.
menu item by menu item.
for things that they weren't clear about.
sur ce qu'ils ne maîtrisaient pas.
bavarder du nouveau venu.
gossiped about the new software in town.
Christopher called to tell me
quelques semaines plus tard.
the system in new ways,
le système autrement,
weeks of effort in the future.
ce temps économisé.
less intimidated by the software.
être plus à l'aise avec le logiciel.
a aidé l'équipe de Christopher
helped Christopher's team
these past few months
vis-à-vis de la technologie.
about working with technology.
que c'était confirmé par des études.
this is backed up by research.
who work in organizations
and learn about the technologies
l'utilisation des technologies
en démarrant cette expérience,
that when I started to do this experiment,
between a person
entre un individu et une technologie
puissent émerger.
about how to manage tech
for my own job and extended it,
puis en étendant la méthode,
d'analyse de données
our data analysis tools
of a job rotation program,
d'une rotation des postes,
se familiariseraient avec eux.
could get to know it.
à notre équipe de recrutement
to our recruiting team
nos campagnes de recrutement.
we work with every day
on our big recruiting events.
rencontrer vos futurs collègues de travail
only get to know the people
qui nous entourent,
that we work with day to day invisible,
billions of dollars in value,
par les organigrammes
an org chart geek like me
of minutes for most people
de votre entreprise,
of who they work with,
pour inclure les technologies
to add in the technologies
asking questions like,
avec qui je vais prendre un café ? »
that I'll be taking out for coffee?"
juste pour le plaisir,
in the 21st-century workplace
au travail au 21ème siècle
with the technologies
part of our daily working lives.
de temps et d'argent au travail.
we are struggling to cope with that.
nous avons du mal à le faire.
sont des collègues de choix,
machines are actually valuable colleagues,
plus forts et plus heureux.
and the softwares and the algorithms
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nadjia Yousif - Technology mentorBCG's Nadjia Yousif designs and implements programs for large financial services institutions to adapt and thrive in an era of technology disruption.
Why you should listen
As a partner at BCG, Nadjia Yousif helps banks, central banks, payments providers and insurers fundamentally change their technology systems, organizational structures and digital customer experiences. A passionate advocate for empowering individuals -- and technology -- in the workplace, Yousif also leads Diversity & Inclusion for BCG in the UK, where she is based, and has published several articles on topics related to diversity and technology. These include interviews with industry leaders, white papers on topics such as the digital "value trap" for banks and the opportunity around "digitally driven gender diversity." Learn more about Yousif and read her publications here.
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