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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

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. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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High Performance Team Building Certificate Program

Mike Cardus

The 2013 program runs from March 6 to May 1. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development Community Connections of New York. I never looked at various committees I’m on or parts of my job that are project oriented as teams. I used the Team Performance Model to identify where a project team of mine is.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. ” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data

Harvard Business Review

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Second, they’re inconsistent with the history of technology. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? Technology'

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business Review

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.