Technology Magazine March 2019 | Page 34

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34 of data which poses challenges .”
The ever-growing skills gap is well documented . For instance , in a recent report , McKinsey estimated that the U . S . will soon face a shortage of approximately 175,000 data scientists . So , what can be done to address it ? With over two decades of experience at Infosys , H . C . believes the firm is well equipped to take on the challenge . “ To address this for our clients , we have invested very heavily to create these skills from within through training . More and more of our clients are asking us to train their existing workforce .” For instance , the firm has developed a corporate learning solution called Wingspan which facilitates learning , offering a voice-enabled ‘ learning assistant ’ for guidance . Infosys is also working shoulder to shoulder with academic institutions to further learning and it ’ s also experimenting
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