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. Feeling vulnerable.

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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. The report reveals that adult education in the UK is declining, and participation declines more as we age. So what can be done?

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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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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 24, 2010

As Kneale Mann, 2010 Chicago attendee, put it , “SOBCon is about full participation. I’ll let SOBConer Amber Osborne (aka Miss Destructo) have the last word : “What I have found at SOBCon is real, honest and supportive people that I have only known previously behind a computer screen. If you attend, you work.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks.

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