“Modern technological advances are transforming the workplace, says MIT Sloan professor Malone and his colleagues. They predict that ‘dividing work into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers’ will create quality, speed and cost advantages for employers. Some of our readers argue that ‘hyperspecialization’ will create challenges, too”

- HBR article by Thomas W. Malone, Robert J. Laubacher, and Tammy Johns, July-August 2011