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Resolving Workforce Skills Gaps with AI-Powered Insights

Determine the future-readiness of your workforce by means of skills inference. Learn about it in this audio edition of our April 2024 research briefing.
By Nick van der Meulen, Olgerta Tona, and Dorothy E. Leidner
Abstract

Ongoing digital transformation requires a workforce that is proficient in a wide variety of new skills. This briefing explores the use of AI in quantifying such proficiency, through a process known as skills inference. We introduce this concept by means of a case study of Johnson & Johnson, showing how skills inference can provide detailed insight into workforce skills gaps and thereby guide employees’ career development and leaders’ strategic workforce planning.

The April 2024 research briefing is read by author Nick van der Meulen.

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© 2024 MIT Center for Information Systems Research, van der Meulen, Tona, and Leidner. MIT CISR Research Briefings are published monthly to update the center’s member organizations on current research projects.

About the Researchers

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Olgerta Tona, Lecturer, University of Gothenburg and Academic Research Fellow, MIT CISR

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Dorothy E. Leidner, Professor, University of Virginia and Academic Research Fellow, MIT CISR

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