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). Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

Osborne 78

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 78

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. Standardize and empower – Many companies that undervalue employees operate a command-and-control culture.

Organization 115

Organization Osborne Bottom-up Attrition 115

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2022

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all.

Policies 73

Policies Technology Osborne Incentives 73

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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. And those are the kinds of things that managers tend to do.”. Workforce composition.

Osborne 125

Osborne Competitive Advantage Technology Skills 125

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

But imagine if the road that led to the Seattle City Council ridesharing hearings this month — with rulings that sharply curtail UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar’s operations there — had been a vastly different one. It still operates today. What would it take? Answer: more public entrepreneurs. Public entrepreneurship is entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

These two intrinsic, human drives operate in opposite directions, with our sense of group membership encouraging cognitive processes similar to other group members and undermining the motivation to think uniquely — that is, undermining creativity itself.

Creativity 8

Creativity Brainstorming Osborne Maslow 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

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.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8