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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Image: Pexels.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. And while this study focused on U.S.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. So, he took steps to eliminate what he believed were negative effects on company productivity. In February 2011, Breton announced that he was banning email.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S According to a study by McKinsey & Company, you are justified in this thinking. It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most.

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. The most popular approach has been to reduce tuition fees for selective fields of study, usually STEM majors. On the other hand, firms are more interested in hiring workers with these STEM skills, as they are very productive and cheap.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

This group then began conducting studies and investigations for clients including commercial and trade organizations. Product and Service Innovation. Information Technology. Consumer Products. This was ground breaking, cutting edge, and the first of its kind (especially in the Midwest). Organization and Change.