Future of Work and Organisations
By Andy Spence | Including people management, technology, demographics, workplace and rethinking organisations - all with an added dose of randomness.
We've Seen the Future of Work in 2030 and It's Pretty Insane
It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi dystopia (Aldous Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i>, anyone?), but according to a new report, the year 2030 …
The WorkplaceAI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning
This article titled "Wie Unternehmen vom Vormarsch des maschinellen Lernens profitieren können" appeared in German last week in the "Digitaliserung" …
IntelligenceAutomation Could End Meaningless Jobs—And None Too Soon
What makes your work valuable?Does it fulfill you? Allow you to connect with or help people? Contribute to a greater good?Or does its value come from …
Emerging TechnologyMistrust in America could sink the economy
AMERICA is a grumpy and confused place. For an overarching explanation of what has gone wrong, a decline in trust is a good place to start. Trust can …
EconomyWhen Jobs Become Commodities
<b>By Thomas H. Davenport</b><p>We don’t typically think of the jobs that we perform as commodities. The Merriam-Webster entry on commodity describes it as “a …
New Economic Spaces
The new technological environment of business is marked by conflicting constraints and value-creating relationships that change rapidly and …
InnovationWhy Blockchain Is The Future Of The Sharing Economy
Everyone’s talking about blockchain, but you’re still not entirely sure what it is, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s something that Jack Dorsey, the CEO and chairman of Square and CEO of Twitter, described this week as the “next big unlock,” and something that, according to Dorsey, is normally …
Sharing EconomyMap of Global Mega Trends
Here you go then. Use this link to get to a high resolution version. A3, A1 and rather wonderful AO sized copies on paper are available upon request …
TrendsCulture for a digital age
Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets have long bedeviled organizations. In a digital world, solving these cultural problems is no …
Digital AgeCompeting in a world of sectors without borders
Digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries. What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s …
InnovationWhen Jobs Become Commodities
Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and a Fellow at the MIT …
Intelligence"Ethereum Island" May Soon Exist Off the Coast of Africa
Global Blockchain Hub<p>Ethereum startup ConsenSys and the African nation of Mauritius are actively exploring a partnership. This collaboration would …
BitcoinThe Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye
At first glance, the organization chart for the maker of True Story, a card game and mobile app in which players trade stories from their daily lives, resembled that of any company. There was a content division to churn out copy for game cards; graphic designers to devise the logo and the …
EmploymentThe Neuroscience of Trust
Companies are twisting themselves into knots to empower and challenge their employees. They’re anxious about the sad state of engagement, and rightly so, given the value they’re losing. Consider Gallup’s meta-analysis of decades’ worth of data: It shows that high engagement—defined largely as …
Harvard Business ReviewA Sociology of the Smartphone
<i>Adam Greenfield</i> | Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life |<i> Verso | June 2017</i> |<i> 27 minutes (7,433 words)</i><i></i> <i>Below is an excerpt from</i> Radical …
Wikimedia7 Startups Giving Artificial Intelligence (AI) Emotions
Shares 172<p>We’ve written <i>a lot</i> about artificial intelligence (AI) here at Nanalyze, and just when we feel like there’s not much more we can add to the …
Robot Overlords: AI At Facebook, Amazon, Disney And Digital Transformation At GE, DBS, BNY Mellon
A robot overlord adjusts Rob’s Open Source Android (ROSAL) at the London Science Museum (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)<p>Searching recently for evidence of artificial intelligence taking over our jobs, lives, and everything else, Tom Davenport came up empty. “Nary a robot overlord to be found,” he declared …
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Article<p>Cognitive collaboration Why humans and computers think better together<p>January 23, 2017<p>Some have voiced fears that artificial intelligence …
The Seven Deadly Sins Preventing Meaningful Work
People are more likely to view work as meaningful when it mattered to others more than just to themselves. In our article, “What Makes Work …
Employee EngagementHow Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead
Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing …
InnovationWhat’s now and next in analytics, AI, and automation
Innovations in digitization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation are creating performance and productivity opportunities for business …
10 work skills for the postnormal era
World Economic Forum’s skills list is way out of date<p>Dion Hinchcliffe tweeted out a graphic (not exactly the one below, but essentially the same) …
Why we need to talk about good work
Matthew Taylor explains why now is a particularly critical time to make good work an integral part of the national agenda<p><i>Watch Matthew Taylor’s</i> …
From chatbots to measuring the lifetime value of employees: AI is rapidly augmenting HR
When SD Worx conducted an online poll of its customers, asking which functions of HR would benefit most from artificial intelligence (AI), it found …
The meaning of life in a world without work
As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose<p>Most jobs that exist today might disappear within decades. As artificial intelligence outperforms humans in more and more tasks, it will replace …
SingularityThe United States of Work
Work no longer works. “You need to acquire more skills,” we tell young job seekers whose résumés at 22 are already longer than their parents’ were at …
Basic IncomeThe Scandinavian Approach to the Employee Experience: What It Means and Why It Matters
Let me introduce these persons to you. Each one of them presents ideas and suggestions about the future of work and the future of HR, but more …
Technology firms and the office of the future
FROM the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, 920 feet above the ground, San Francisco’s monuments look piddling. The Bay Bridge, Coit Tower and Palace of …
Is the “augmented customer” the future of tech?
A report released this week by global research and consulting firm Ovum has explored the changing identity of the customer in the digital age with the emergence of what they term the “Augmented Customer” — an interconnectedness between customers, retailers, and technology.<p>“With the number of …
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