Time is Honey

Why I'm reading this:

I found this episode super interesting on how a very low tech, no supervision or planning technique for honey bees to choose which flowers to visit is more efficient than the algorithms underpinning web traffic in the early 2000's. It got me thinking about what else the honey bee algorithm could apply to in an Internal Audit setting. I had a very interesting thought experiment with my team about a honey bee task force of 2-3 auditors that only deployed to the most impactful audits based on the honey bee feedback loop. They would deploy to audits with newly identified issues, audits with deadline trouble, or audits with very large transactional data to test. The key would be to reassess needs weekly. This ended as a thought experiment because it would be great for everyone except our honey bees who would have no career development, only work on high pressure projects, and face constant burnout. Maybe we could deploy AI agent honey bees?