N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. This ongoing approach to improvement allows businesses to adjust to market shifts and customer demands quickly.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Creating such a culture of learning is something Shelley Osborne, Vice President of Learning at Udemy suggests needs five steps to be undertaken in her latest book The Upskilling Imperative. Hiring your way out of this skills gap isn’t a sustainable approach, so organizations need to get better at upskilling the workforce.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it’s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market. When those skills were automated, the impact was severe.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs would be lost, while the likes of Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk asked for AI development to be paused (although pointedly not the development of autonomous driving). job market. It is difficult to underestimate the importance of self-efficacy in personal development.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. A new NBER working paper suggests it’ll be those that require strong social skills — which it defines as the ability to work with others — something that has proven to be much more difficult to automate.

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