Skill sets: Transitioning to data science and analytics
Are we ever going to plunge into being simply an IT industry? George Jarrett looks at the radical changes in skill sets needed as the industry transitions away from the linear broadcast model.
With the industry in flux, reductions in manpower are directly related to keeping running costs down, as media companies seek agility. Their focus is fixed on creating content for multiple platforms and moving to the cloud.
Add the fact that skill sets are changing with the move to IP and IT technologies, and many once-promising ‘broadcast’ careers are sunk if re-skilling is not an option.
The industry shuddered when Canal+ cut its workforce by 500. Lorenzo Zanni, head of insight and analysis at the IABM, has a strong overview of the sector.
“Some of the changes are being led by pure cost-cutting due to…
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