A skills shortage is a supply problem. A budget shortage is a demand problem. The entire skills-gap apparatus is aimed at the wrong side of the market.
None of the failures in this database required an unknown technique. Each required somebody with time to notice, decide and act.
Scarcity normally produces rising wages and employers training people up. “Cannot afford” and “cannot find” describe the same failed hire.
The constraint was never analyst hours. It was people with standing to make a decision and time to follow it through.
Success is the absence of an event, which is unobservable. Failure is a public incident with a named owner.