According to Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, the US economy could lose up to $2.5 trillion over the next decade because of 2.4 million jobs going unfilled. Those jobs will go unfilled because of an anticipated lack of skilled workers.
Read the Industry Week article (there is a link to the Deloitte study in the article) to see how some companies are ensuring knowledge transfer to close the skills gap and to see what action steps your organization can take right now.