Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
نجية يوسف: لماذا يجب عليك التعامل مع التكنولوجيا التي تستخدمها في العمل كزميل
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a new employee,
went to go meet with her team members,
مقابلة أعضاء الفريق،
were ignored or dismissed,
after a few minutes.
went quietly back to her desk,
being put to use,
أي من مهاراتها.
millions of dollars.
who can't seem to catch a break
أن تأخذ استراحة من العمل.
المستعملة في الشركة.
make the well-meaning decisions
fail to live up to the expectation.
that are never used.
لم تُستخدم أبدًا.
just being wasted each year.
is high but not unreasonable
لكنها ليست غير منطقية
genuinely better at their jobs.
the people on the front line,
these softwares and tools,
هذه البرامج والأدوات،
at the number of tools
how to log into and use.
واستخدامها.
that guilt -- it's racking up,
يصاب صاحبه بالإجهاد
itself into our daily working lives,
حياتنا العملية اليومية،
of jobs today in the US
في الولايات المتحدة
من المهارات الرقمية.
to work with technology.
with the right mindset.
that I've been toying with:
like a team member?
personal experiment about this.
from all different industries
their core technologies like colleagues.
from the restaurant industry,
that I would meet with
the structure of their teams
when it comes to organization charts.
عندما يتعلق الأمر بالرسوم البيانية.
because, if they are drawn well,
عندما يتم رسمها بشكل صحيح
of what individual roles are
that represent people.
والتي تمثل الأفراد،
team members are there.
that I met with for my experiment,
their technologies as coworkers,
كزملاء عمل
to the right person?"
work well together?"
بشكل جيد معًا؟"
actually the team member
of a small catering company
who work at Bovingdons Catering Company.
شركة "بوفينغدونز" للتموينات.
all of the customer interactions,
والذي يدير كل تفاعلات الزبائن.
who manages all the internal activities.
والذي يدير جميع الأنشطة الداخلية.
to the sales and operations directors.
لمدراء المبيعات والعمليات.
the software and the hardware
we can now explore
حيث يمكننا الآن استكشاف
and the technology team members
وأعضاء فريق التكنولوجيا
that I'm going to look for
and machine relationship
إن كان شخص ما يستخدم التكنولوجيا
to do his or her job.
the accounting platform would be one.
يجسدون ذلك.
of their collaboration.
تعاونهما،
a tenuous relationship.
were actually a person,
responsible for managing it
about a team-building activity,
حول نشاط لبناء الفريق،
on a specialist course.
scheduling regular performance reviews
بجدولة مراجعات دائمة للأداء
would literally give feedback
really important human and machine teams
من فرق البشر والآلات الهامة جدًا
it's worth taking the time
those relationships truly collaborative.
for any human role
لأي دور بشري
or more types of applications.
تفاعل أربعة أو أكثر من التطبيقات.
was interacting with five technologies.
يتفاعل مع خمس تقنيات.
overwhelmed by his job,
أنه غارق في وظيفته،
of the technologies he was overseeing.
had a lot of people reporting to him,
يرفعون التقارير لمدير العمليات،
something about it,
to report to somebody else.
moving some of the technologies
بعض التقنيات
is any technology
without a real home.
without an owner.
to so many different areas
who's actually using it.
من يستخدمها بالضبط.
the marketing software.
and then didn't give it a desk
ثم لم تجد له مكتبًا
has been sidelined for a reason,
to leave or be retired.
is something that all companies do.
applications are actually coworkers
to retire those applications
متى وكيف يمكن التخلي عنها
to the rest of the team.
لبقية الفريق.
with 15 different professionals,
I was telling you about,
told to me by Christopher,
at a big consumer goods company.
في شركة استهلاكية كبيرة.
للموارد البشرية،
for 14 months at great expense,
employee with amazing credentials,
وتتوفر على شهادات رائعة،
to get to know it,
but to get to know their HR system.
للتعرف على نظام الموارد البشرية لديهم.
menu item by menu item.
for things that they weren't clear about.
على الأنترنت.
gossiped about the new software in town.
عن هذا النظام الجديد.
Christopher called to tell me
the system in new ways,
weeks of effort in the future.
مجهود أسابيع.
less intimidated by the software.
من التعامل مع البرنامج.
helped Christopher's team
these past few months
في الأشهر القليلة الماضية
about working with technology.
فيما يخص استعمال التكنولوجيا،
this is backed up by research.
who work in organizations
الذين يعملون داخل منظمات
and learn about the technologies
that when I started to do this experiment,
أنني عندما بدأت هذه التجربة
between a person
about how to manage tech
حول كيفية إدارة التكنولوجيا
for my own job and extended it,
وتعميمه فيما بعد،
our data analysis tools
of a job rotation program,
في برنامج التناوب الوظيفي،
could get to know it.
to our recruiting team
we work with every day
on our big recruiting events.
only get to know the people
that we work with day to day invisible,
billions of dollars in value,
بالإضافة إلى ما قيمته مليارات الدولارات؟
an org chart geek like me
مخطط بيانات محترف مثلي
of minutes for most people
عند معظم الناس
of who they work with,
لإضافة الوسائل التكنولوجية،
to add in the technologies
asking questions like,
that I'll be taking out for coffee?"
أحجز معها موعدًا؟"
in the 21st-century workplace
في العمل في القرن الحادي والعشرين
with the technologies
part of our daily working lives.
من حياتنا اليومية في العمل.
we are struggling to cope with that.
فنحن نكافح للتعامل مع ذلك.
machines are actually valuable colleagues,
هي في الواقع زملاء مهمين،
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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