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. Many managers believe that the best way to run their teams is to have no wastage or slack at all.

Organization 89

Organization Osborne Bottom-up Attrition 89

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2020

The paper takes particular aim at the famous Frey & Osborne paper that has spawned so many of the dire predictions, both in terms of the methodology used when making the predictions, and the evidence to date in the six years since the research was published. Exaggerated expectations.

Osborne 52

Osborne Short-term Document Technology 52

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is an especially stark juxtaposition as the company has, since its founding in 2015, marked itself as a nonprofit team of humanitarian scientists working for the good of us all. Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.

Productivity 94

Productivity Products Altman Osborne 94

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Feeling vulnerable.

Osborne 83

Osborne Report Marketing Technology 83

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Even the most functional of teams will sometimes disagree or experience infighting, which can be difficult to manage. Laura teaches conflict resolution, problem solving and listening skills using an innovative method that addresses the human interactive challenges. Workers object to this (“Lunch is my time, I’m off the clock”).

Osborne 50

Osborne Hotels Brainstorming Objective 50

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0 addressed this crucial area any better.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

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.". Assemble a Diverse Team. Here's our advice: 1. Somebody has to own the effort. This is the client role.

Groupthink 15

Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15