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New Skills Are Needed to Work on Internet of Things
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The market for the Internet of Things could create demand for IT specialists who can engineer new products and process the data they collect.
A 2011 McKinsey report estimates the U.S. faces a shortage of up to 190,000 people with deep data analytics skills, as well as a shortfall of 1.5 million managers and analysts. In response to this worker shortage, General Electric (GE) has been training data specialists for the past few years, says GE's Marco Annunziata. Until the global IT workforce produces enough workers who specialize in data science and software or hardware engineering, "we need to start developing them, to some extent," Annunziata says. "We will have more and more need for people who are a combination of data scientists and operation managers — people who have both an understanding of how to use data, how to use analytics, and also an understanding of their own business lines," Annunziata says.
Cisco is looking for similar hires, targeting candidates who can collaborate with people in other industries.
Meanwhile, some universities, such as the University of California, Berkeley, have developed data-science programs to prepare students to work on Internet of Things projects. Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University also have developed similar programs.
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