While the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) was already underway, COVID-19 dramatically accelerated its use and adoption in workplaces globally. Whether AI proves to be a tool for human learning and advancement, promoting broader economic access and inclusion, or a technology that replaces and excludes them is up to us.
George Asamani | Business Development Lead, Africa | Project Management Institute (PMI) | mail me |
The Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2022 Global Megatrends report[1] identifies six trends challenging thinking on how projects – and the organisations that deliver them – can be understood, managed, resourced and executed in the future world of work.
By examining the impacts of Digital Disruption, Climate Crisis, Demographic and Economic Shifts, Labour Shortages and Civil, Civic and Equality Movements, a clear picture emerges in which, disruptive technologies, including AI, present humans either a threat or an opportunity to build a better, more inclusive and efficient global working environment.
Following the publication of the report, we assembled insight from thought leaders and partner organisations observing the impact of these trends on real workplaces, project managers and people around the world.
McKinsey, for example, reports that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate at which companies introduced digital products and services advanced by six years in North America, seven years in Europe, and over ten years in Asia-Pacific. In Africa where only half of the population uses the internet and less than a quarter shop online[2], COVID-19 is expected to increase the number of mobile internet users by 100 million over the next three years. By 2025 it is expected that Africa will have 475 million digitally active citizens.[3]
The pandemic greatly accelerated an expansion of digital technologies, especially tools to…
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