McKinsey & Company 16 Talent continues to be a barrier with data engineering surpassing data science as scarcest skillset Yes No 37 63 Hiring and retaining IoT talent a significant barrier to success 343 324 318 288 253 220 164 IoT -savvy product management Data engineers (data cleaning, data organization) Communications Specialist Data scientists Agile software development professionals Sensor and endpoint hardware specialist Connected hardware engineers who understand legacy equipment IoT -savvy executives 401 What kinds of skillsets are the hardest to attract and retain? Q3_11 BASE: (Total: N = 1265) Source: 2019 survey of 1400 IoT practitioners; McKinsey analysis Percent of responses Number of responses