Automation drives down costs, improves agility and makes new business models practical, with a potential upside of more than tenfold improvement in efficiency. The elephant in the room, however, remains the immediate association with job replacement and the resulting rise in socio-economic gaps.
Heavy industry is one of the last frontiers of automation, but a new centre shows how robotics and AI can reshape how we build physical infrastructure.
What is intelligent automation? Intelligent automation is a combination of methods involving people, organizations and also technologies involving machine learning. Intelligent automation is aimed at automating end-to-end business processes on computers.
Intelligent automation – a combination of AI, digital tools and robotics – is already reducing the administrative burden on healthcare workers and expanding access to more patients. Realizing the potential of intelligent automation requires the entire sector – providers, government agencies, tech companies and others – to collaborate for solutions that improve patient outcomes and ...
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million ...
The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 examines how broadening digital access is affecting the world of work – and looks at the fastest growing and declining job roles.
A global automation programme guides factory-scale adoption and use-case sharing, governed by central and local digital transformation offices, with plans to establish a lighthouse factory for each product group.
Intelligent automation can carve a new pathway toward achieving both sustainable economies and energy transition, be it in healthcare, manufacturing, logistics.
The fourth industrial revolution is transforming manufacturing processes with the use of automated control systems. By educating society and preparing the workforce with new skills we can allay fears about automation. Here are three reasons why automation is something to be embraced.
By 2025, automation and a new division of labour between humans and machines will disrupt 85 million jobs globally in medium and large businesses across 15 industries and 26 economies. Roles in areas such as data entry, accounting and administrative support are decreasing in demand as automation and digitization in the workplace increases.
