> > Fourth, organizations might not have adequate infrastructure to manage their data and deploy completed AI models, which increases the likelihood of project failure.

> Sounds like lack of capital.

I actually think this is also an engineering problem, or at least a 'human capital' issue. The skillset for developing an AI model and the skillset for deploying a massive data-based product are highly different, but people who are good at the former often get press-ganged into doing the latter. This is kind of a capital problem (more money means maybe they can hire a second person to manage the operations), but I think it's also just a general lack of awareness that MLOps is really it's own thing. Especially when you're moving fast, tech-debt with these systems builds up really quickly (shockingly quickly). More money lets you hide these problems better, but IMO the solution is only going to come with time as people develop better and better best-practices for this type of project.

edit: There's a section in the full report called 'Too Few Data Engineers' that does a better job making this point. Everybody wants to make fancy AI models, nobody wants to be responsible for the 10K lines of uncommented Python and SQL you're using to build your test/train sets