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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members. 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.

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What Can Past Technological Revolutions Tell Us About Today?

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While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it’s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market. Across four categories of jobs, there were some noticeable differences.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

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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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How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

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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. Complementary investment.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. This is coupled with a need to deploy those learnings over longer timescales as problems take on a global and complex nature. Creating a culture of learning.

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Does Automation Result In More Jobs Being Created?

The Horizons Tracker

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. Creating jobs. Managing high-skilled workers is much more like coaching or advising.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

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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