Nov 1, 2017, 1:38 PM
(From Knowledge@Wharton) Technical skills are no longer solely for developers, engineers and data scientists. “The IT labor force is incredibly important for innovation and growth, but there are more and more workers — insurance analysts, HR analysts, product managers — who increasingly need to be comfortable with data, algorithms and so on for their daily job descriptions,” said Prasanna Tambe, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions. Tambe sees IT workers as the “canary in a coal mine,” and what happens to them will happen to everyone else about a decade later. He studies the economics of what’s going on in the smaller group of IT workers to figure out the implications of the wider workforce.
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