Top 10 Management Trends in 2019

The year 2019 is almost half way through and many a managers around the world have already learnt the skills that would give them a head start this new year.  But for those who are still mulling over their future course of action, here is a listing that may still gear them up for the remaining part of the year:

• Remote Workers
• Video Marketing
• Rising Wages
• Artificial Intelligence
• Team Brand Ambassadors
• Customer-focused Organizations
• Outside Consultants
• Work-Life Balance
• Continuing Education
• Training Millennials

Now these is just a listing and a smart manager may find these not very hard to adopt, for most of the managers today are fully abreast with technological advancements and know the importance of IT and Artificial Intelligence. 

If you are a manager, which of the above listing would you instantly adopt if given a choice?

Given to me, I would concentrate on "Continuing to educate" myself of the trends that are taking place around me for being updated and knowing more is a must for just about every industry. We live in an ever-changing world, meaning that what works today may not work as well tomorrow. For as technology like AI and other improvements are integrated into one's company’s mainframe, employees will need to learn how to adapt to the changes. This provides opportunities for both internal experts and outside consultants to offer training on these advancements.

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Has Cloud Computing changed the Business?

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We have long been advocates of moving business operations into the cloud. The remote access, cost-savings and organizational benefits alone make it a no-brainer.

Business technology company CSC commissioned a survey of IT decision makers in eight countries to find out the motivations behind their move to cloud computing systems and its effects on their businesses. The data they distilled might surprise you, and it’s all packed neatly into the infographic below.

This is just part of the whole - see the full chart HERE and see how business today is being effected by Cloud Computing.

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Curved mobile phones

"Mobile phones have come in all manner of different shapes and sizes over the years. Standard candy bars, clamshells, sliders, swivel designs - even odd origami-like multi-twisty phones. One thing all these different phone types have in common, though, is flatness. The fascia of the phone is always completely flat, largely because the screen itself has to be flat...."

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Driverless Cars – An innovative direction for Auto Industry

When Karl Benz, Henry Ford and John W Lambert were making headlines in the previous century in the field of newly born auto industry, they would have never even in their wildest dreams would have imagined that one day the vehicles will be running without fuel and their drivers. Today, the driverless cars are making the same headlines as was done more than a hundred years ago.

The 13000 kilometers long accident free journey of four solar powered driverless vehicles from Italy to China is a landmark in the auto industry. This reminds of the flying cars in the film “Back to the Future” and also makes it possible someday when we would be flying and “piloting” cars instead of driving.

The vehicles used solar panels mounted on their rooftops, and equipped with computerized artificial vision system “GOLD” for Generic Obstacle and lane Detector for automatically analyzing the information from the sensors and adjusting the vehicles’ directions and speed. At one point, the vehicles also stopped to give a lift to a hitch hiker.

The project is part of the research work at University of Parma, Italy and may serve as a cue for its vending and production for commercial use by some auto giant one day. For the time being the visitors at the Shanghai Expo, China will be the opportunity to see these vehicles and may wonder at the marvel of technology advancement. And we will wait for the time when such cars make their way on to our roads one day.

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