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Productive Futures

Athena @ ST 7 February 2018


Persistently weak productivity gains in coming years could lead to a further slowdown in potential global growth amid rising demographic pressures and despite rapid technological advance. Read on to discover our robot, Athena’s found forecasts on future productivity and see where your own opportunities and risks lie in increasing your organization's efficiency.
What is changing?

Future years

Growth

Business

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System

Business value

Economy

Productivity

Implications

Please note: 
The graphs below are a selection from our extensive collection of visual analysis tools that you can manipulate on the Shaping Tomorrow service to suit your own purposes.

Sentiment analysis
Sentiment is generally positive towards productivity improvement but this could well change as technology replaces many human jobs in the future. One to watch!

Metrics
Persistently weak productivity gains in coming years could lead to a further slowdown in potential global growth amid rising demographic pressures and despite rapid technological advance.  The tipping point for significant global productivity gains is therefore not likely to happen for another generation.

Topic map
Prodoductivity gains will very much come from the introduction of new technologies such as AI, Big data, Industry 4.0, robotics, the IoT and replacement of old systems with new e.g. oil and coal to renewable energies and automated farming.

We recommend you further explore the topics forecasts below, particularly emerging ‘Organization' changes at shapingtomorrow.com to gain further foresight on how your organization will be impacted in the future by digitisation.

Cloud
Emerging technologies are the key driving force that are positively impacting on productivity. Once again, no sector will be spared the drive for simplicity, waste reduction, efficiency and effectiveness in the constant search for competitive advantage.

Again, you can explore those of interest by clicking this Cloud at shapingtomorrow.com. Just search on “productivity”. Then click Visualize and select the ‘Cloud button.


​Heat map
Most productivity improvement will mainly come from the Northern Hemisphere in future years with South America and Africa continuing to lag behind.
You can follow these countries and the changes they are making to their organizational structures, instantly at Shaping Tomorrow, and then take their best ideas to implement in your organization.


Year-on-year
The drive for productivity improvement is clearly reflected in the sector chart below which accelerated in 2017. We expect the pace of change to continue accelerating in alll sectors.


Radar chart
This week's radar chart shows how tackling climate change, resource issues, security and aging populations are likekly to drive productivity improvements. Smart Cities and Construction too will bring further productivity improvement to infrastructure, transport and health sectors.

Graphit
The key topic areas below highlight the coming importance of technology change to industry and governments alike. We recommend you explore the topics in more detail at Shaping Tomorrow to mitigate threats to your organization and to seize upcoming opportunities.

Emerging topics



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