Michael Manos, CTO at Dun and Bradstreet, has seen many technologies sweep through the marketplace.

🎥 Dec 27, 2022 📺 Modern CTO ⏱ 0m 👁 549 views

About Michael Manos

In September 2023, Michael Manos discussed the impact of automation on jobs. He stated that every new innovation that introduces automation or orchestration has been described as a "jobs killer," but he said these developments evolve into the next level of complexity. Manos commented that "the easy stuff keeps getting automated away but the hard complex more human things still remain," adding that complexity continues to press people and ideas for work. In September 2022, Manos thanked the Dun & Bradstreet technology team for moving the company's mainframe technology from an old data center to a new one. He described the effort as "unbelievably complicated" and noted that in his 30 years of running large technology teams, such projects "always get messed up." Manos said the team executed the move without any customer impact and that the coordination involved teams across the company and with partners. He expressed that the team "could not execute better."

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Transcript (2 segments)

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I'm curious to know, have you ever come across any of these technologies throughout your career that just completely eliminate jobs?

Yeah, of course. I think every new and great innovation like that, where there's been some new level of automation or some new level of orchestration, has been the jobs killer. But it has always just sort of evolved into the next level of complexity. So they all come around and it just sort of forces the learning curve and enforces where you have to pay attention, but always getting more and more complex. So the easy stuff keeps getting automated away, but the hard, complex, more human things still remain. So you can always count on that complexity, at least for now, continuing to sort of press people and press ideas for work.