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

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. GDP is attributable to these declining barriers in the labor market,” the authors explain. “Over the last 50 years, more than a quarter of all growth in the U.S.

GDP 80

GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 80

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Digital dominance. There is also a supportive regulatory environment that has helped fintech innovators to emerge.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

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. No industry is immune.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. The jobs gained will require higher educational attainment and more advanced levels of communication and cognitive ability, as work requiring rote skills such as data processing or collection increasingly are taken over by machines.

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. The Technology Optimists. How should we be organized? How do we define jobs?

GDP 8

GDP Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

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. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. Since the 1980s, America has replaced 50 million jobs with 100 million (more skilled, better paid, more useful) new jobs, and two-thirds of new American jobs are created by businesses that are less than five years old.

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

in the most radical technologies. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. But the fairy tale that the U.S. Germany is just as good as the U.S. In the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 But they do see variegated skill-biased impacts. productivity growth to surge.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

It's a game-changing technology not merely because of its power, but because of its impact both on and off the battlefield." But robotics is also itself a booming industry, creating jobs for those with the skills to design, program, and build them. Singer in this piece. Robotics is akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, or the computer.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

"If we want to see more Americans gainfully employed — not in jobs, but with living-wage careers," he writes, we need to invest more in the nonprofit sector and in government programs like our educational system to advance science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outcomes. AFTER ROBOT-DRIVEN CARS, WHATS LEFT?

GDP 12

GDP Sports Short-term Education 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition.

Comparison 14

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. And while innovators may have had good business skills, the general culture of business in Europe did not encourage innovation. The culprits were institutional.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

is integrally tied to maintaining our historical lead in high technology. Adding to the concerns is a perception that American firms are outsourcing so much R&D that it will only add to the erosion of high technology industries. Second, R&D expenditures are growing faster than GDP, especially in manufacturing.

Outsourcing 12

Outsourcing Chief Technology Officer Engineering GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. Here are the highlights.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

It doesn''t cover those who are either actively improving their marketable skills in college (and most of the women in college are not studying liberal arts topics at $40,000-a-year universities, but studying pharmacy or medical technology or other immediately practical subjects at more reasonably priced community colleges).

Education 9

Education GDP Report Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

YOY GDP growth in its April World Economic Outlook. The official national figure was actually only 7% YOY for 2014, while the combined official provincial statistics figure added up to nearly 10% YOY GDP growth. Furthermore, many organizations have stakeholder-driven agendas that occasionally add political bias. Alpha’s U.S.

Marketing 10

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Multinationals tend to be large, capital-intensive, skill-intensive, research-intensive, and high-productivity — all features that contribute to high-wage jobs and rising living standards. GDP while undertaking 40.9% A Vital Contribution. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing. The company is taking advantage of the disruptive results of new EEG technology research.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

growth in GDP. New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills. Men and women equally qualified in business drivers around hard- and soft-business skills—with neither gender scoring high. Goldman Sachs. 2014) Womenomics 4.0:

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How it effects product design and customer experience.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

There are many theories as to why — globalization, technology, changes to public policy, and the decline in unionization — and just as many theories on what to do to help narrow the income gap. How do you think about that mission, given the fact that wages and jobs seem to be struggling to keep pace with profits and GDP?

Training 8

Training Long-term GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

But innovation is just as much a function of connections—of a person’s or team’s ability to access global information networks and work alongside others with relevant skills. Combined with the country’s strong English skills, this kind of investment is well positioned to boost the country’s innovation economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of the GDP on healthcare in 2012. Mary Cummings, one of the first women aviators to land a plane on an aircraft carrier, faced a similar situation when she left the navy; a computer was replacing many of the skills she had acquired in order to fly. Disruptive technologies threaten every mission of the academic health center.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8