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).
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 20, 2019
The researchers leaned heavily on the work done by Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne that estimated the risk of various jobs to automation. These are both areas that Frey and Osborne suggest are at high risk of automation. Deciding to automate.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2017
Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s. Another difficulty with brainstorming is that there are often some people in the group who don’t like uncertainty.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2016
News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. They’re probably going to have trouble doing anything very active on fiscal policy, given the uncertainty.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 26, 2017
Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword. Make sure you report — in ways decision makers can understand — assumptions, uncertainties in your results, and concerns. First, see how the data is actually collected.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Already, since the Brexit referendum, it has been the worst-performing advanced economy in terms of growth; its currency has lost more than 13% of its value against the dollar because of the uncertainties caused by Brexit.
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