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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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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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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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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

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Rethinking The Impact AI Might Have On Work

The Horizons Tracker

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.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

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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). We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

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