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What Impact Might Automation Have On The Diversity In Public Service?

The Horizons Tracker

Predictions about the impact of autonomous technologies on the workplace have been as varied as they have been numerous. The study looks not only at the traditional aspects of the automation of work, but also whether the introduction of new technologies might influence the equity of service provision. Deciding to automate.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. What are the organization’s goals? Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.