Unleashing Innovation in Manufacturing
Justin Rose describes how combining automation and continuous upskilling will create competitive advantage in the workplace.
To succeed in the coming decade, companies must capitalize on the synergies inherent in human–machine collaboration. That means crafting a new kind of enterprise, one that combines technology and people in ways that bring out the best in each.
To achieve this, business leaders must invest in organizational restructuring and reexamine their approach to corporate culture and innovation. Fostering new ways of working and inspiring a strong sense of purpose will be vital. All this isn’t easy, but the result will be organizations that are able to learn faster than their rivals, thrive in the face of uncertainty, and continually evolve.
These pioneers are combining artificial and human intelligence to drive growth, innovation, efficiency, resilience, and advantage.
Machines are able to spot patterns in vasts amount of data at superhuman speed. People can connect big ideas, imagine new possibilities, set an organization’s purpose, and build relationships with customers. Combine people and technology in new ways, and you’ve got the company of the future.
Justin Rose describes how combining automation and continuous upskilling will create competitive advantage in the workplace.
As change accelerates, most companies are not keeping up. Leaders need to understand the key drivers of change and redesign their organizations with a focus on six core attributes.
“Machines and algorithms are more capable than ever. In some cases, yes, they will replace humans. But don’t count us out yet. Technology and humans, it turns out, are better together.”
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Don’t leave it to the CEO, Andrea Gallego says. Everyone in the company should consider—and question—how AI will impact the world.
As companies combine people and technology in fresh ways and invest in organizational restructuring to win the ’20s, everyone will change how they work and lead.
People will collaborate in new ways (like tapping into digital “gig” platforms) and build a corporate culture characterized by improvisation and purpose. Mastering these aspects of organizational culture and innovation pays big dividends: workforces that deliver top performance despite facing tough challenges.
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CEOs must focus on talent, Judith Wallenstein says, and developing the skills people will need to work alongside and in collaboration with machines.
Cooperative teamwork plus freewheeling innovation are essential for winning in the 2020s. To achieve both, companies will need to become more improvisational and less rigid.
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Winning the ’20s
How should leaders prepare their companies to thrive in the new decade?
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