"Reality Mining for Compan

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Phones instrumented with GPS, Bluetooth, call logs and accelerometers map who meets whom and when, and predict behaviors: business card exchanges in the next 120 seconds at ~80% accuracy, buying/eating/political leanings from influence graphs, and community well‑being from communication diversity. A dorm deployment and a bank dashboard reveal face‑to‑face cohesion drives productivity more than information access (10% vs 4% boost), simple schedule fixes (aligned coffee breaks) restore output. Privacy solution: user-owned personal data.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:25Reality Mining of Social Structure
3. 6:06Sensing Organizations
4. 10:03Breakthrough Idea of the Year Harvard Business Review
5. 13:38Human Networks Similar To Bees: Discovery and Integration
6. 16:50Same for Creative Productivity?
7. 18:10Same For Social Health?

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