Leaders should help their managers and employees anticipate disruption and change to get excited about learning new skills that will keep them employed and ensure development in their careers. Read more in burrus.com The Industry 4.0 Advantage By Daniel Burrus…
The message for businesses is clear: those that act now to ensure they can make the most of the data they hold and reliably compare this with industry peers and competitors will be best placed to understand and meet the…
According to our estimates, the cost of the corporate center could shrink by 25 to 40 percent in the next five years as more work is outsourced and automated. Inevitably, companies will continue shifting activity to the less expensive alternatives…
Skills are actionable. They can guide workers toward understanding their unique value, where they are deficient, and what they want to learn. Especially as more of the workforce shifts toward freelancers, it will be skills—not job titles—that will help workers…
Cybercriminals are using more advanced and scalable tools to breach user privacy, and they are getting results. Two billion data records were compromised in 2017, and more than 4.5 billion records were breached in the first half of 2018 alone.…
As retail businesses are closing down their storefronts on the high street, they are focusing more and more on online sales. With this change, comes an influx of useful data to retailers that must be stored and made good use…
By 2030, robots, artificial intelligence, automatons, call them what you like, will have displaced up to 800 million workers or one fifth of the global workforce. How about in 2032, or 2042, and beyond? What tools should we be arming today’s…
With modern healthcare and improvements in sanitation, people are living longer. Meanwhile, broader access to reliable birth control means many people are having fewer children. This is leading to a higher proportion of people in older age groups. Read more…
Because we’re living longer, our focus is starting to shift toward well-being. This transformation is happening slowly. Like most forms of progress, the change is so gradual that it’s hard to perceive. It’s a matter of decades, not years—and I…
