The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. Creating such a culture of learning is something Shelley Osborne, Vice President of Learning at Udemy suggests needs five steps to be undertaken in her latest book The Upskilling Imperative.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. A more enlightened approach is to “leverage frontline ability, knowledge, and time to serve the customer well and pursue bottom-up continuous improvement.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

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. At risk (kind of).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". We have no issue with the importance of the creative individual to generate focused and powerful ideas.

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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity. Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. Methodology. Each component is made up of different clusters of indicators. The Government 3.0

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