How to do machine learning without data scientists

Many data and analytics leaders face a chicken and egg situation. Without experienced data scientists, venturing into machine learning and data science is difficult. Without any successful pilots, getting serious business commitment to fund data science projects and hire data scientists is equally challenging. Most organisations are still in the early phases of their data science journey and struggle to understand what machine learning and data science can do for them. They don't exactly know which skills are needed and hiring data scientists seems really difficult.