{"id":33114,"date":"2017-01-02T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/lets-cut-to-the-chase-there-have-never-been-times-as-uncertain-as-these-in-the-world-of-business"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:37","slug":"lets-cut-to-the-chase-there-have-never-been-times-as-uncertain-as-these-in-the-world-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/lets-cut-to-the-chase-there-have-never-been-times-as-uncertain-as-these-in-the-world-of-business","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s cut to the chase \u2013 there have never been times as uncertain as these in the world of business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lets-cut-to-the-chase-there-have-never-been-times-as-uncertain-as-these-in-the-world-of-business.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no written rule-book to follow when it comes to career survival. The \u201cFuture of Work\u201d is about making ourselves employable in a workforce where the priority of business leaders is to invest in automation and digital technology, more than training and developing their own workforces.<\/p>\n<p>As our soon-to-be-released State of Operations and Outsourcing 2017 study, conducted in conjunction with KPMG across 454 major enterprise buyers globally, shows a dramatic shift in priorities from senior managers (SVPs and above), where 43% are earmarking significant investment in robotic automation of processes, compared with only 28% placing a similar emphasis on training and change management. In fact, the same number of senior managers are as focused on cognitive computing as their <em>own <\/em><em>people <\/em>\u2026 yes, folks, this is the singularity of enterprise operations, where cognitive computing now equals employees\u2019 brains when it comes to investment!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lets-cut-to-the-chase-there-have-never-been-times-as-uncertain-as-these-in-the-world-of-business.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseirregulars.com\/112484\/2017-year-people-forced-learn-new-skills-join-lost-generation\/\">https:\/\/www.enterpriseirregulars.com\/112484\/2017-year-people...eneration\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no written rule-book to follow when it comes to career survival. The \u201cFuture of Work\u201d is about making ourselves employable in a workforce where the priority of business leaders is to invest in automation and digital technology, more than training and developing their own workforces. As our soon-to-be-released State of Operations and Outsourcing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59290,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114\/revisions\/59290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}