Chief Robotics Officer

Former CRO Chief Robotics Officer who has experience in implementing robotics in an organization will share with us the challenges met during the implementation and give good advice as to how HR and other managers/ leaders can implement robotics in an organization successfully.

Should God run a motorboat,
robots have a soul –
and you be reaching for your ancles by now?

Stories from the days when man and machines first started dating.

The answer is of course yes.

Hard to grasp? A bit like the future then. One might even propose there will be lessons learned included here. Perhaps even stretching to a gentle but swift kick to the bollocks for good measure. If done right – robotics is easy – thats just technology – it’s the humans, that are the real tricky bit. Managing modern organisations full of humans whose actual core identities are under siege, is key. Humans – not robots.

What it actually takes to successfully navigate horizonless seas – and do it viking style – is fundamentally straight forward . It just requires the impossible of most organisations – which is a shift from “sense making in Chaos” to “sense making out of Chaos”. Swapping world views is mega hard work, the possibilities for failure are way, way better than for those for succes. Screwing up such a sensitive development process is almost inevitable. Designing the process to always be recoverable, seems like a pretty good idea. Sooner or later Plato’s cave dellers will have to see the world of light directly. Yanking them out of the cave, kicking, screaming and cursing is one way to go. It guarantees results – only bad ones though. Leaving them in the Oval Office instead as a strategy, is currently being tested by the americans, I believe.

“The door to happiness opens outwards” as Kirkegaard reminds us.

Why does the HR department get the first kick to the bollocks?

Because they need to transform the fastest, the most and into something much more flavourfull. Don’t despair, cause and effect are no longer functioning as usual. The roles are shifting as are the key success factors. And when you then finally bend over to reach for the anceles, remember it’s only to pull up your socks. Not managing this probably will on the other hand turn literal.

So, who the hell am I? My name is Poul, and I know a little about robots. I also know a lot about humans and have seen the two get married and divorced again more times than is good for any priest. As a former CRO and innovation nutter for the health care sector, I tend to develop an eye for those, who are going to make it. That sends me around the world in a systems design or developing capacity.

“The door to happiness opens outwards."