The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6

GDP 143

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 143

HR Digest

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There are a lot of benefits from the integration of AI technology, a possible 7 percent boost to global GDP according to the report, but when paired with apprehensions about unemployment, it results in an equal amount of worry for the future. As AI becomes more accessible, it also becomes more easy to adopt.

Tools 52

Tools Early Adopters GDP Report 52

HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

Developments in digital technologies, inclusive of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, are estimated by some to create the potential for a tremendous reduction in the volume of work. Others see scope of digital technologies to transform the quality of work. Productivity is a critical element to economic growth.

Human Capital 122

Human Capital How To Incentives Human Resources 122

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

Maintaining productivity. The researchers looked at employee technology data before, during, and then after the hurricane struck. “In the future, there will be a greater percentage of the workforce who is involved in some sort of office-style technology work activities,” they explain. Mixed results.

GDP 64

GDP Analysis Productivity Products 64

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

“We’re likely to see a huge amount of disruption in the labor market in the coming years, with existing jobs lost to economic and technological factors, and new jobs created that will require new skills,” Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera told me recently. ” Skills for the post-Covid world. Uneven spread.

Skills 129

Skills GDP Crisis Short-term 129

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

New research from MIT sets out to understand precisely why the labor share of GDP has fallen from 67% in 1980 to just 59% today. The discontent from economists has mainly arisen due to the remarkable stability of labor’s share of GDP throughout the 20th century. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms.

GDP 76

GDP Outsourcing Retail Finance 76

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

The analysis reveals that this competition spurred European firms on to develop new products and services that the researchers believe would not otherwise have been developed. This resulted in a boost to GDP of around 0.4%. “But Now you could work at a company like Apple, innovating products that can be made cheaply in China.”.

Innovation 131

Innovation GDP Long-term Short-term 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With AI’s influence, their projections suggest a potential resurgence in global GDP growth, envisioning a substantial boost to the global economy by 2032. The authors predict that AI will emerge not merely as a technological marvel, but as a beacon of hope in addressing demographic and productivity challenges.

GDP 25

GDP Analysis Globalization Influence 25

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

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.

Company 129

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. hectares of farmland. But this is about to change.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. A decline in disruption. Hype run wild.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Collecting proper records of returns helps to reduce defects and deliver a better quality product to your clients. The best way to do this is to use scanning technology. Automate Everything.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In an era of profound demographic change, another productivity revolution is a necessity. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. over the next 50 years.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. In a highly connected, social world, technological innovation advantages last for weeks rather than decades or years.

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1987, the Nobel-winning economist Robert Solow surveyed the impact of IT on the economy and concluded that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. Capital accumulation accounted for 6.9

GDP 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. Today, about half the activities that people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated by adapting demonstrated technology. The Age of AI.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. Automation will give the global economy that much-needed productivity boost, even as it enables us to tackle societal “moonshots” such as curing disease or contributing solutions to the climate change challenge.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

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. So, there’s a great deal at stake in the debate over productivity and jobs. The Utopians.

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

in the most radical technologies. Much German innovation involves infusing old products and processes with new ideas and capabilities or recombining elements of old, stagnant sectors into new, vibrant ones. Germany is better at sustaining employment growth and productivity, while expanding citizens’ real incomes. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers. But after this initial boost, their productivity increases slowed down. by the end of that period.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level.

Innovation 11

Innovation GDP Education Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Google has a history of launching products in languages that fall outside of the mainstream. Its flagship search product has been available in Irish Gaelic for many years, even though the language has only about 133,000 native speakers, all of whom also speak English. of the world''s GDP. One of those conditions?

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Two of the main drivers of a country’s economic growth are the size of its workforce and the productivity of its workers. In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. The country’s fertility rate has fallen from 4.1

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Though there were empires and kingdoms, the gross world product (GWP) was largely flat. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy. This does not mean every technology company is leading; there are plenty of tech companies falling behind, too. Why is that?

Company 8

Company Technology Innovation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Since two-thirds of world’s growth in GDP is likely come from poor countries, reverse innovation is an important phenomenon.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

From BMW’s self-driving car to smart door locks and bells, and Wi-Fi tea pots, there were hundreds of exhibitors who presented their IoT-ready technology. This dialogue will allow these “brilliant machines” to work better together, optimize production and reduce unplanned downtime.

Industry 8

Industry Software GDP Engineering 8