Leaders seeking to implement machine learning in the enterprise, and glean real business value from this area of artificial intelligence (AI), are confronting the reality of a skills gap: There’s a shortage of qualified talent. According to an Accenture survey on the future workforce, 67% of workers consider it important to develop their own skills to work with intelligent machines. Yet only 3% of business leaders are planning significant increases in their training and re-skilling programs to meet the skills challenge posed by AI.
Many businesses bridge the machine learning skills gap by acquiring expertise from outside the company — through new hires, partnerships, or acquisitions. But they overlook a more obvious answer: upskilling their current workforce.
Upskilling is essential to preparing a workforce for machine learning’s continued march into the mainstream. Download the guide to discover how to: