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id: "entity-lightcast"
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source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Is a Change-Management Initiative"]
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canonicalName: "Lightcast"
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canonical_url: "https://lightcast.io"
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articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
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sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Lightcast

**Lightcast** is a labor-market analytics and skills-data provider offering a **continually updated skill database**.

It is cited as an example of companies **outsourcing the creation of [[concept-skill-taxonomy|skill taxonomies]]** rather than building them from scratch: **SAP**, which previously maintained an in-house taxonomy of **7,000 skills**, recently transitioned to working with Lightcast. See [[action-develop-skill-taxonomy]].