Tomorrow's most effective individuals will combine their personal capabilities with customized digital boosters. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Technology now touches and transforms every aspect of personal productivity in the workplace. Mobile devices, bots, and digital assistants are ubiquitous, while managers increasingly use key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards to monitor and measure employee performance. In industry after global industry, effectively collaborating with technology is as important as effectively collaborating with people.

Tomorrow's most effective individuals will combine their personal capabilities with customized digital boosters. Technology now touches and transforms every aspect of personal productivity in the workplace. Mobile devices, bots, and digital assistants are ubiquitous, while managers increasingly use key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards to monitor and measure employee performance. In industry after global industry, effectively collaborating with technology is as important as effectively collaborating with people. Continually boosting the value of employees in this environment -- especially knowledge workers -- poses a difficult design challenge.