I would add that having stripped out the domain specific part prior to these words of your's: "[... people] who have good problem-solving skills, a business or

I would add that having stripped out the domain specific part prior to these words of your's: "[... people] who have good problem-solving skills, a business orientation to doing work that meets customer needs and builds a profitable company, and good written and oral communication skills." Your following sentence is also true with the modification I've made in brackets: "There is a severe shortage at all levels of employment of [people] who meet those other requirements." With programming skills or not, people with these characteristics have always been rare. We can gather lots of them for a while for massive nation efforts like the Manhattan Project (something I've been studying in detail for the last few months), but in normal times all organizations, from Google to just another startup, have trouble finding these people who will make or break their ventures.