Are buyers losing the war against the machines?

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ARE BUYERS LOOSING

THE WAR AGAINST THE

MACHINES?

The race against the

machine

A major change in the current

workforce is about to take place

In “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating

Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment

and the Economy”, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee demonstrate why

workers are losing the war against the machines.

Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel

Family Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management

Andrew McAfee, Associate Director of the

Center for Digital Business at MIT Sloan School of Management

“There is no economic law that says that

everyone, or even most people, automatically

benefit from technological progress”

Is your job safe in the

second machine age?

Frey and Osborne address the

hottest new question

In “The Future of Employment“, Carl Frey and Michael Osborne forecast

which jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by technology in the

next two decades. Their Model predicts that computerisation can be

extended to any non-routine task that is not subject to any engineering

bottlenecks to computerisation.

In “The Future of Employment“, Carl Frey and Michael Osborne forecast

which jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by technology in the

next two decades. Their Model predicts that computerisation can be

extended to any non-routine task that is not subject to any engineering

bottlenecks to computerisation.

Carl Frey, Oxford Martin School,

Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, University of Oxford

Michael Osborne, Department of

Engineering Science, University of Oxford

“Technological progress in the twenty-first

century can be expected to contribute to a

wide range of cognitive tasks, which, until

now, have largely remained a human domain”

“Algorithms for big data are now rapidly

entering domains reliant upon pattern

recognition and can readily substitute for

labour in a wide range of non-routine

cognitive tasks”

Is your Job at stake?

What’s preventing jobs from being

automated?

Frey and Osborne identified several key bottlenecks that prevents jobs from

being automated:

automated?

being automated:

Perception and manipulation tasks.

Robots are still unable to match the depth and breadth of human

perception.

automated?

being automated:

perception.

Creative intelligence tasks. The psychological

processes underlying human creativity are difficult to specify.

automated?

being automated:

perception.

Creative intelligence tasks. The psychological

processes underlying human creativity are difficult to specify.

Social intelligence tasks. Human social

intelligence is important in a wide range of work tasks, such as

those involving negotiation, persuasion and care.

The buyers’ advantage!

Buyers will be fine as long as they

move away from routine tasks that

can be performed by e-tools

can be performed by e-tools To Gain an advantage, buyers need to make the most of their strategic

thinking, relationship building and social skills,

can be performed by e-tools To Gain an advantage, buyers need to make the most of their strategic

thinking, relationship building and social skills,

emotions experience discovery

expressions learning interpretations

problem-solving education

reaction feeling body language

Gain an advantage!

To build and develop enduring

relationships with stakeholders and

suppliers, buyers draw heavily on

strategic thinking and soft skills

To build and develop enduring

relationships with stakeholders and

suppliers, buyers draw heavily on

strategic thinking and soft skills

The EIPM Certification and Training courses offer leading

edge methods to develop your skills:

Key Commodity Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Leadership & Change Management

Feel free to contact us now for information on how to gain

an advantage.

Thank you!

Hervé Legenvre

Silmara Codeville

info@eipm.org

www.eipm.org