Success

I have been thinking about innovation as it relates to our city and region.  We often think that new cutting edge ideas or 21st century robotics is what makes up innovation.  I think that real innovation exists in the ability deliver better results with many of the same ideas.

For instance, the internet was/is innovative, but it really delivers on the visceral desire for communication in a better way.

So to carry this idea of innovative delivery on existing ideas a bit further…I believe our Portsmouth area needs to really step up to the plate.  It seems that we have a difficult time making quick decisions to act, plan, and execute on new strategies, and consequently are left in the dust.  I know someone who claims that years ago she guessed that if you bottled water, people would buy it.  She didn’t move quick enough and someone else took it to the bank.

Do you feel that we have a more difficult time getting things done?  Slower than other areas of the country?  How do we act more quickly to make good things happen here?

We don’t have time to waste thinking up innovative ideas, we need innovative deliveries.