The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). million people employed as long-haul truck drivers in the U.S.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

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. It’s only in such cultures that the kind of candid feedback that is such a crucial part of learning can be achieved.

Osborne 96

Osborne Development Tacit Knowledge Kaizen 96

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is backed up by research from the University of Basel, which found that the most important determining factor of success in both one’s education and career was one’s aspirations. Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.

Productivity 93

Productivity Products Altman Osborne 93

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

This seems to be the case today, with the infamous analysis from Frey and Osborne also suggesting that professions like nurses would be little impacted by the wave of automation that was set to wash over us. The researchers also found that technology wasn’t negative in a uniform manner.

Technology 101

Technology Osborne Skills Learning-by-Doing 101

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.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

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.

Osborne 82

Osborne Report Marketing Technology 82

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Process Osborne Idea Generation 8