Panopticon Effect

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• The Panopticon Effect describes how people modify their behaviour when they believe they’re being watched
  • In team environments, this effect can be harnessed to promote honesty and ethical conduct
• Panopticon is a prison design that allows a single guard to observe all inmates without them knowing whether they are being watched or not
• Named after the philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s idea and later expanded by Michel Foucault
  
• Key benefit is vastly reducing bureaucracy
  • Trust team to be honest and ethical and therefore may use resources without prior permission from higher-ups
  • Record the experience in a narrative database like SenseMaker®
    • decision made
    • money spent
    • consequences of actions
  • Critical component of a Distributed Strategy