Applying Augmentation Principles to Team Workflows


Augmentation means designing AI into work, so people do higher-value thinking while technology supports routine, repetitive or information-heavy tasks. This technique explains how to map team workflows, decide where AI should assist, and protect human judgement, accountability and service quality (ILO, 2023; NIST, 2023).

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Applying Augmentation Principles to Team Workflows

Applying Augmentation Principles to Team Workflows Definition

Applying augmentation principles to team workflows means redesigning work at task level so AI supports people rather than silently replacing their judgement. The team identifies where AI can speed up drafting, searching, classifying, summarising, checking or routing work, while humans retain responsibility for context, ethics, stakeholder communication, exceptions and final decisions (Daugherty and Wilson, 2018; OECD, 2021).

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  • Boudreau, J. W. and Jesuthasan, R. (2022). Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization's Work Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Daugherty, P. R. and Wilson, H. J. (2018). Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
  • Daugherty, P. R. and Wilson, H. J. (2018). Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces. Harvard Business Review, July-August. Available at: hbr.org/2018/07/collaborative-intelligence-humans-and-ai-are-joining-forces
  • Davenport, T. H. and Mittal, N. (2023). All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

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