Don’t we all want to implement straight and rapid solutions to Business problems ? Not only because of the products time to market, but also, because it improves our own visibility on value we bring internally to our companies. We spent a lot reading, taping tweets, looking social medias, talking with suppliers, attending conferences as we expect to find good ideas for us. If we feel to have caught one, we try to set it next to an old one to see how they fit just like a lego game. Often it does not fit. Then we store the idea for a later stage when we will find a new one which will realise the fitting.

As soon as it fits, we make a business case and start to enlist a sponsor to what it promise to be a breakthrough project for our company. Starting from now, no doubt that we are enough experienced to lead the project to a successful achievement, otherwise it would be another story.

Reaching the point where a set of ideas makes up a breakthrough business solution, is indeed very hard for plenty of reasons studied by management researchers. According to the project promise, some may accept an imperfect fit in comparison with benefits, all things which will require people to make the bridge.
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