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Center for the Future of Work
The Center for the Future of Work at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College is a new interdisciplinary research center that has been established with a seed gift from Cognizant Technology Solutions. The Center will focus on the study of technological and social system enablers of next generation organizations engaged in the creation of digital content and services. It will engage faculty and students from across the university.
The Center for the Future of Work will draw on university-wide, interdisciplinary research capabilities to study the interaction between physical and virtual work spaces that will enable major breakthroughs in the design of work processes and environments for network-enabled organizations of the future. The objective is to create a rich understanding of the interactions among present and emerging technologies, incentives that support knowledge creation and sharing in physical and virtual workplaces, and individual and group behaviors to create evidence-based guidelines for best practices and optimum workplace design.
Following a call for proposals, the Center for the Future of Work has selected eight research projects that will receive immediate funding. Faculty and students from 5 schools -- the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Institute of Technology, the School of Design at the College of Fine Arts, Heinz College, and the Tepper School of Business -- will research topics such as collaboration and communication, knowledge management and knowledge transfer in distributed environments, content development through crowd sourcing, and the tools, incentives, technologies, and methodologies needed to meet the challenges and opportunities facing knowledge-based organizations.
In addition, the Center will also select a small set of proposals to fund as faculty probes to try “riskier” ideas or to engage key faculty around the university. The Center will make use of the global and distributed nature of Carnegie Mellon’s programs as test beds for future of work ideas.
Center Leadership
Ramayya Krishnan, FWC Director
H. John Heinz III Dean and Professor of Information Systems, Heinz College
Dan Siewiorek, FWC Research Director
Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
David Krackhardt, FWC Research Director
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Heinz College and Tepper School of Business