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Dr. Coye Cheshire, Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
 

Consider this paradox about digital change: Although it increases the need for collaboration in organizations, it also makes collaborating more difficult. In my research and consulting work, I’ve observed that this happens for three key reasons. First, it becomes harder to identify the right internal partners. In many organizations in the thick of transformation, particularly agile work environments, employees are given greater latitude to make important decisions on the ground. 

Describing him as “a leading researcher on better working relationships with robots,” Thinkers50 has named Matt Beane, an assistant professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara, to its prestigious Radar list of 2021. The international platform for management ideas releases the annual list to spotlight thirty people from around the world whose work it believes will shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.