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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Utilizing technology has the power to enrich and elevate the learning experience: Digital Tools and Platforms: Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and internal learning management systems (LMS) enable employees to enhance their skills independently. Involvement and Participation: Involving employees in the change process can increase buy-in.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

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. Technology at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

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. Missing out. Feeling vulnerable.

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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. Far from being a destroyer of jobs therefore, what technology does seem to do is help inequality between those with skills and those without.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks.