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. Operate with slack – This is perhaps the most important element and something I’ve written about in the past.

Organization 112

Organization Osborne Bottom-up Attrition 112

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 6, 2020

Despite minimal evidence of technological redundancies since the famous paper on the topic by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, fears have barely abated in the intervening years.

Osborne 90

Osborne Technology Quality Cost 90

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).

Osborne 75

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 75

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

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. The researchers also found that technology wasn’t negative in a uniform manner.

Technology 117

Technology Osborne Learning-by-Doing Skills 117

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 112

Osborne Report Marketing Technology 112

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. Amid the concern around the automation of jobs, a long-standing truism has perhaps been overlooked.

Technology 84

Technology Osborne Education Skills 84

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 70

Policies Technology Osborne Incentives 70

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 45

Osborne Short-term Document Technology 45

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.

Products 107

Products Productivity Osborne Altman 107

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s been a decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne published their hugely influential paper on the susceptibility of jobs to automation. The paper sparked a wave of concern about what impact the latest wave of automated technologies would have on the labor market.

Aggregate Demand 73

Aggregate Demand Osborne Comparison Engineering 73

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2015

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Osborne 50

Osborne Hotels Brainstorming Objective 50

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.

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 70

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 70

Experience to Lead

AUGUST 27, 2024

A 2020 study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior found that employees who feel a strong sense of belonging at work are more engaged, motivated, productive and innovative. However, with this innovation comes a responsibility to scrutinize the human errors that could shape these learning pathways.

Osborne 52

Osborne Efficiency Environment Training 52

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.". Collaborative innovation involves the genius of the "and" versus the tyranny of the "or."

Groupthink 18

Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 18

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 12

Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. The more people who can engage with that problem or goal, the more knowledge that is available to work on it.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Process Osborne Idea Generation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

arguably one of the most individualist countries in the world , is also the most creative in terms of patents generated, innovation, and scientific research publications. The result of individualists working within an individualist culture, then, is likely to be a high level of innovation. It’s no coincidence that the U.S.,

Creativity 8

Creativity Brainstorming Osborne Maslow 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. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

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 single, voice-activated digital assistant ready to answer any civic question. How far ahead do you think you’d have to jump to make these things happen? Five years? They are signs of profound change.

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 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

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. Each component is made up of different clusters of indicators.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

To grow and innovate, organizations have to come up with creative ideas. The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s. Second, that quantity (eventually) leads to quality.

Brainstorming 8

Brainstorming Osborne Idea Generation Creativity 8