THE NEW JOB POSITIONS FOR WORKING WITH BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR PLACEMENT IN COMPANIES WORLDWIDE: EVIDENCE FROM EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

Jelena M Lukić

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301
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312

Abstract


The question regarding the impact of modern technologies on organizational design has become an important and attractive issue in the theory and practice of management and organization again with the development of Big Data technologies. Those technologies represent new technologies, techniques, tools, knowledge, skills and methods for collecting, processing and analyzing data with new attributes (quantity, structure, speed). On the one hand, Big Data technologies are the factor from environment that confronts the companies with large quantities of data from variety of sources, while on the other hand those technologies represent the resource of organization which allows the companies that use them to make value on the basis of collected data. One of the first changes that comes with the implementation of Big Data technologies in company is establishment of new job positions because companies must have employees with new knowledge and skills. The aim of this paper is to identify, through empirical research, the new job positions for working with Big Data technologies, required knowledge and skills of those employees and how they are placed in the company.


Keywords

Big Data, organizational design, T shaped professionals, hard and soft knowledge and skills

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