A Pull Forward
Technology is everywhere – our desks, walls, pockets… even our wrists – caching a continual snapshot of the world around us. Kerit taps into data streams inside the workplace and serves them back as a dynamic human-goal-action-feedback loop. Or as we like to say, create a pull forward.
Collect It, Analyze It, Feed It Back
Kerit starts by identifying a data baseline inside the work environment. Business systems commonly store transactional data for most organizations. From there, accessory sensors are added to complete the picture of activity across the environment.
Machine learning analyzes data sets to understand the relationships behind outcomes. Thousands of interactions and subsequent ripples are studied to find opportunities. With this insight, Kerit builds processes that loop every few seconds to visualize granular progress in real-time.
The loops are then incorporated into feedback streams for users inside the environment. Small displays show feedback to individual users, while large displays feed an entire team. Remote users can be tied in through mobile devices.
Car·rot:
( noun ) Something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive.
The modern workplace has entered a level of complexity where it’s no longer possible to manage the flow of activity. Important events go unnoticed and people get lost in the shuffle. Humans have built complex computer systems to track every detail, but we don’t use that data in the place where it can be most effective. People often go long spans of time without feedback on progress.
Kerit draws data forward to the present and uses it to cultivate human productivity. We merge personal planning with broader organizational strategy to frame the context of each workday. Individuals can set targets for themselves or organizations can apply resources to catalyze achievement.
Goals are put at the forefront of the work experience with feedback flowing to guide the path. The Kerit system takes layers of activity data from an environment and distills it down into a simple stream of feedback for each user. As individuals navigate their day, the system automatically recognizes known activity types and cycles feedback toward goals.
Kerit plants a carrot in front of each human in the work environment. A carrot that leads to increased autonomy and new efficiency. A carrot called optimization.
Micro-Decision Economics
Optimization is not an idea invoked lightly, even when limited to the scope of a single work environment. No matter the size or degree of complexity, optimization requires an awareness of reality and thorough forethought of possibility. Kerit uses the term data resolution to illustrate this concept.
Consider the meaning of resolution as it applies to imaging; in a low-resolution photo, the view is incomplete and reality is lost in obscurity. Assumptions can be made, but an accurate understanding is impossible without more data.
The Kerit analytics platform is designed to address this very challenge. It builds on top of reliable base-data then weaves in data from parallel sources. Data from wearable sensors inside the environment relate process activity back to human action. All for the goal of giving high-resolution clarity of the environment back to itself.
Designing for Parity of Information
Information is the supreme resource. With it, choices can be made today that lead to the hoped-for tomorrow. Decisions are simply made better with the right information. Kerit is a channel for organizations to more timely disseminate information across their environment and with greater effect.
Our design philosophy sees technology as a layer of optimization on top of the human base, one that enhances human ability to perform within the context of the work environment. A tool to organically improve both the individual as well as the environment around them.
No matter how well information is delivered, Kerit’s ability to impact an environment starts and ends with the human user. What’s explained on this page is only part of our plan to uniformly improve human performance. Be sure to see our Human Development plan if you haven’t already. If you’re hungry for more, continue on to our About.