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Does Automation Result In More Jobs Being Created?

The Horizons Tracker

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. These firms became less productive, relative to the adopters. Creating jobs. Workforce composition.

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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated. economy.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. No wonder employees like them.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

Amidst the acrimony, it seems hard to imagine that public leaders could envision and operate such a platform, or that private innovators could work with them more collaboratively on it — but it’s not impossible. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

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. Amid the concern around the automation of jobs, a long-standing truism has perhaps been overlooked.

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Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

To grow and innovate, organizations have to come up with creative ideas. The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s. How to make them more productive. Second, that quantity (eventually) leads to quality.