Systems Gap, Not Skills Gap

Most organisations are told they have a skills gap. They are told to hire, to train, to procure their way across it. That framing is comfortable because it points outward.

The harder truth is that the people who can do the work are often already inside. What is missing is the system around them: the policy that lets them ship, the governance that makes the work safe to scale, and the recognition that turns a side-project into a mandate.

This arc collects the pieces that argue the same point from different angles. When you treat a systems gap as a skills gap, you go shopping for what you already own, and the clock keeps running.