Ben Pring - January 23, 2019 - 16 views

In his famous 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Thomas Kuhn outlined how changes in orthodoxies occur. Popularizing the term “paradigm shift,” Kuhn examined how dominant doctrines – broadly shared and agreed upon – are overthrown by new ideas first thought to be from the lunatic fringe but that, in turn, become the new orthodoxy. […]

Patricia Birch - January 22, 2019 - 23 views

We’ve been steadily predicting the formation of many unusual partnerships as the healthcare industry shifts toward consumer-centric healthcare business models. And our forecasts keep coming to pass: Think of CVS-Aetna, Cigna and Express Scripts and, of course, Amazon’s venture with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway. Now we can add Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft to the list. […]

When it comes to high-tech, nothing seems high-techier than artificial intelligence (AI). But when businesses get started on AI initiatives – which most respondents in our recent study are doing – the challenge today is less about technical questions and technology capabilities, and more about crafting a strategy, determining the governance structures and ethical practices […]

Ben Pring - January 16, 2019 - 250 views

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos this year will be the epicenter of two of the world’s most important trends: The rollout of 5G, the next-generation networking infrastructure that will more tightly bind together the world’s 7.7 billion people, as well as the four billion “things” expected to be deployed by 2020. The […]

Karen McCall - January 15, 2019 - 51 views

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 29.3% of working-age disabled people are employed today, compared with 73.5% of those without a disability. What’s more, the unemployment rate for individuals with a disability was 9.2% in 2017, according to the BLS, more than twice that of those with no disability (4.2%). If only there […]

Jerry Smith - January 11, 2019 - 265 views

There’s a lot of chatter out there regarding just how artificial intelligence will impact jobs. Some say we’re headed for an AI apocalypse, the end of the world as we know it. Others see a new shiny robotic city upon a hill, looking through AI-tinted glasses at an emerging utopia. The wonderful thing about predictions […]

Feather Hickox - January 8, 2019 - 301 views

Let’s flip the idea of the childrearing career penalty for women on its head: What if being a working mom was seen as a career enhancement? Think about it for a moment. When men become working dads, they’re seen as settling down, getting grounded, reaching maturity. We perceive their family focus as a step forward […]

Stephanie Peterson - January 4, 2019 - 90 views

As Generation Z enters the workforce, and surpasses millennials in overall world population in the next year, many are trying to label members of this demographic, just as we did with previous generations. Listicles are published every day espousing the top 10 traits of Gen Z (born roughly between 1995 and 2010) or the five […]

Manish Bahl - January 2, 2019 - 81 views

In the first six months of 2018, an estimated 17,120 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes, but it’s doubtful the same number of national or global headlines appeared on these tragedies. More likely, most of us read just one: the fatality caused by a self-driving car. It’s far more distressing, apparently, to witness intelligent […]

Bret Greenstein - December 27, 2018 - 633 views

In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) will increasingly become a mainstream presence in our work and personal lives, inspiring our purchase decisions and digging deeper into business outcomes and events. At the same time, expectations surrounding AI will also grow, as calls for transparency and fair play become too loud for businesses to ignore. Here are […]