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 59

Osborne Short-term Document Technology 59

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

Exposure to risk The researchers developed an approach to gauge the exposure of workers to new technology. This seems to be the case today, with the infamous analysis from Frey and Osborne also suggesting that professions like nurses would be little impacted by the wave of automation that was set to wash over us.

Technology 118

Technology Osborne Skills Learning-by-Doing 118

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2019

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. What’s more, there is little sign that those skills are going to be developed.

Technology 85

Technology Osborne Education Skills 85

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.

Osborne 113

Osborne Report Marketing Transportation 113

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. Indeed, even if people were only working less than 8 hours per week, they were 30% less likely to develop mental health issues.

Osborne 74

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 74

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.

Technology 71

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 71

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.". Anyone, alone or with other people if they need or want help, can pick any idea and develop it further.

Groupthink 16

Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In fact, each of these innovations is already up and running somewhere in the world today, with more happening every day. A collaborative research project has launched in New Zealand to explore some of these larger questions of how governments can harness digital technologies to develop smarter, more inclusive societies. Five years?

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. The third step is about developing an organization that will foster digital practices.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 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

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.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 9

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. Given its heavy investment in digital infrastructure, the government can leverage this foundation to narrow the gaps.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10