The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2019

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. Amid the concern around the automation of jobs, a long-standing truism has perhaps been overlooked.

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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

MAY 18, 2017

Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s. Don’t worry if they’re too crazy. Don’t criticize initially. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It was Alex Osborn, a 1960s advertising executive, who coined the term brainstorming. Subsequent scientific research confirmed Osborn’s instincts: groups who follow his guidelines show more creativity than those who don’t. Vincent Tsui for HBR. and 10.5).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s. Osborn famously claimed that brainstorming should enhance creative performance by almost 50% versus individuals working on their own.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers. Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Here are three of the most common things managers do that have deleterious effects: 1. Researchers have developed a variety of different models of creativity, from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving method to design thinking. Spending too much time on brainstorming.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? In times of trauma or potential stress, we tend to gravitate toward being with others, identifying closely with our in-groups, by flying the national flag or going to church more often.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. Of course, that’s not all bad. We must have more great public administrators.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

If there are spillovers from Brexit onto them, it will require some probable extension of monetary stimulus, maybe some fiscal stimulus, but it’s all manageable. They’re probably going to have trouble doing anything very active on fiscal policy, given the uncertainty. So that limits the room the Bank of England has to offset.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Every citizen carries a digital ID card that allows him or her to vote remotely, pay taxes with a few clicks, manage health care, and much more. Estonia has only 1.3 million citizens but is larger in landmass than Switzerland; as a result, many towns do not have a nearby government office.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword. Seek out veterans and managers who will make time to explain the business. If you’re not actively doing these things, take steps to fold this into your daily work. First, see how the data is actually collected.

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