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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from the University of Cambridge argues that business model innovation will be key to emerging from the pandemic in the best economic health. “We posit that rapid productivity growth offers the only viable option and that it can reduce the debt to GDP ratio to pre-pandemic. ” Encouraging innovation.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. GDP growth a year across the period.

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The False Choice Between Automation and Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The performance benefits for companies are compelling and not just (or even mainly) in terms of reducing labor costs: automation can also bring whole new business models, and improvements that go beyond human capabilities, such as increasing throughput and quality and raising the speed of responses in a variety of industries.

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The Countries Most (and Least) Likely to be Affected by Automation

Harvard Business Review

We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future. How it will impact business, industry, and society. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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How Will AI Change Work? Here Are 5 Schools of Thought

Harvard Business Review

In a new Accenture survey (titled Reworking the Revolution , which will be published on January 23 rd ) of 1,200 C-level executives worldwide, 75% say that they are currently accelerating investments in AI and other intelligent technologies. The Technology Optimists. The Utopians. The Productivity Skeptics.

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