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The New Skills in Finance Report 2022
In a digital-transforming era, there is a widening skills gap for those who cannot adapt to the new digital world in finance.
CFTE and Elevandi published the report with the discussion with leading experts to help governments, organisations and individuals address the current skills gap in finance and build a digital-resilient workforce in the industry.
Key Insights
Key takeaways from "The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier" report published by McKinsey & Company
CFTE summarised “The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier” report by McKinsey & Company. The research focuses on on how companies should prepare to capture the benefits and mitigate the risks of generative AI.
Key Aspects
- This research assess the impact of this new era of AI. It suggests that generative AI is poised to transform roles and boost performance across functions such as sales and marketing, customer operations, and software development.
- The report also addresses the challenges and requirements for managing workforce transformation and the ethical application of these technologies.
Table of Contents
- Key Insights
- Generative AI as a Technology Catalyst
- Generative AI Use Cases Across Functions and Industries
- The Generative AI Future of Work: Impacts on Work Activities, Economic Growth, and Productivity
- Spotlight: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products
- Spotlight: Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods
- Considerations for Businesses and Society
Key Findings and Insights
This report will give you an insight into:
- Generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy.
Our latest research estimates that generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually across the 63 use cases we analyzed—by comparison, the United Kingdom’s entire GDP in 2021 was $3.1 trillion. This would increase the impact of all artificial intelligence by 15 to 40 percent. This estimate would roughly double if we include the impact of embedding generative AI into software that is currently used for other tasks beyond those use cases. - About 75 percent of the value that generative AI use cases could deliver falls across four areas:
Customer operations, marketing and sales, software engineering, and R&D. Across 16 business functions, we examined 63 use cases in which the technology can address specific business challenges in ways that produce one or more measurable outcomes. Examples include generative AI’s ability to support interactions with customers, generate creative content for marketing and sales, and draft computer code based on natural-language prompts, among many other tasks. - Generative AI will have a significant impact across all industry sectors.
Banking, high tech, and life sciences are among the industries that could see the biggest impact as a percentage of their revenues from generative AI. Across the banking industry, for example, the technology could deliver value equal to an additional $200 billion to $340 billion annually if the use cases were fully implemented. In retail and consumer packaged goods, the potential impact is also significant at $400 billion to $660 billion a year. - Generative AI has the potential to change the anatomy of work, augmenting the capabilities of individual workers by automating some of their individual activities.
Current generative AI and other technologies have the potential to automate work activities that absorb 60 to 70 percent of employees’ time today. In contrast, we previously estimated that technology has the potential to automate half of the time employees spend working. The acceleration in the potential for technical automation is largely due to generative AI’s increased ability to understand natural language, which is required for work activities that account for 25 percent of total work time. Thus, generative AI has more impact on knowledge work associated with occupations that have higher wages and educational requirements than on other types of work. - The pace of workforce transformation is likely to accelerate, given increases in the potential for technical automation.
Our updated adoption scenarios, including technology development, economic feasibility, and diffusion timelines, lead to estimates that half of today’s work activities could be automated between 2030 and 2060, with a midpoint in 2045, or roughly a decade earlier than in our previous estimates. - Generative AI can substantially increase labor productivity across the economy, but that will require investments to support workers as they shift work activities or change jobs.
Generative AI could enable labor productivity growth of 0.1 to 0.6 percent annually through 2040, depending on the rate of technology adoption and redeployment of worker time into other activities. Combining generative AI with all other technologies, work automation could add 0.2 to 3.3 percentage points annually to productivity growth. However, workers will need support in learning new skills, and some will change occupations. If worker transitions and other risks can be managed, generative AI could contribute substantively to economic growth and support a more sustainable, inclusive world. - The era of generative AI is just beginning.
Excitement over this technology is palpable, and early pilots are compelling. But a full realization of the technology’s benefits will take time, and leaders in business and society still have considerable challenges to address. These include managing the risks inherent in generative AI, determining what new skills and capabilities the workforce will need, and rethinking core business processes such as retraining and developing new skills.
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