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The Impact of AI and Jobs and Skills
No comments on The Impact of AI and Jobs and SkillsLast month I moderated a panel on “The Impact AI on Jobs and Skills” at the annual 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. “As AI transforms industry after industry, its impact on the labor force is becoming a critical focus for business, educators, and policy makers,” read the panel’s blurb. “What will be the impact of…
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In early December, Deloitte released “Tech Trends 2024,” its 15th annual report that “chronicles the growing business imperative to balance today’s tactical needs with tomorrow’s strategic ambitions.” The report is focused on six major technology trends that are likely to be critical to business transformation over the next 18-24 months. Let me discuss each of…
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Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published “The Future of Jobs Report 2023.” The WEF has been publishing Future of Jobs Reports since 2016 to explore how socio-economic and technology trends are likely to shape the evolution of jobs and skills over the following 5 years. “In 2023, labour-market transformations driven by technological…
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“The first years of this decade have heralded a particularly disruptive period in human history,” wrote the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its 18th annual edition of the “Global Risks Report 2023.” “The return to a ‘new normal’ following the COVID-19 pandemic was quickly disrupted by the outbreak of war in Ukraine, ushering in a…
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The 2023 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium took place on May 15 and 16 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, overlooking the Charles River, and a short walk from the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. Livestream tickets were also offered to help better engage the Symposium’s worldwide audience. This year’s overall theme was “Driving Digital Resilience in…
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A few months ago, the Linux Foundation (LF) announced its intent to launch the Open Wallet Foundation (OWF) in early 2023. The OWF aims to develop open source software, key building blocks, and best practices that anyone can use to build multi-platform, interoperable, secure, and privacy-protecting digital wallets that will support a wide variety of…
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“The golden age of globalisation, in 1990-2010, was something to behold,” wrote The Economist in a January, 2019 article. “Commerce soared as the cost of shifting goods in ships and planes fell, phone calls got cheaper, tariffs were cut and the financial system liberalised.” The very nature of the global firm was transformed during these…
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“Cybersecurity has reached a tipping point,” wrote MIT professor Stuart Madnick in a recent Harvard Business Review article, New Cybersecurity Regulations Are Coming. Here’s How to Prepare. “After decades of private-sector organizations more or less being left to deal with cyber incidents on their own, the scale and impact of cyberattacks means that the fallout…
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On September 13, the Linux Foundation (LF) announced its intent to form the Open Wallet Foundation (OWF) at its Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin. The OWF aims to develop open source software, key building blocks, and best practices that anyone can use as a starting point to build multi-platform, highly secure, privacy-protecting digital wallets.…
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Two years ago, the Carnegie Endowment launched the Cloud Governance Project, a multi-year study on the governance challenges associated with cloud computing. “This project recognizes that the cloud offers huge benefits for individuals, organizations, and national economies through greater IT convenience, flexibility, and cost savings,” said the project’s website. “However, the risks of a major disruption…