Let's say you know you have a challenge. One that can be addressed by a web project that will integrate with a backend system, eliminating silo's of information and providing needed online access and interaction that will help you meet a business goal.
What do you do?
Well, in the past, it would've probably become a huge deal, needing a major capital investment and oodles of time and resource allocation that you don't have and then there's that niggling doubt thing about sticking your neck out that far. So the great idea gets shoved into the closet. Right?
In a recent post on Knowledge Jolt with Jack, Jack Vinson writes, "What motivates me to do anything? Conviction that it is important to me. At the same time, I need to see a path to change, and have some confidence that the path is going to lead me the right way while not creating any additional problems (or that I can overcome obstacles). But without that critical conviction, I am not going to be interested in making the effort to change."
I think Jack has the secret to gaining that conviction. It's all in seeing the clear path to a successful implementation. Today's technology efforts should enable you to get to that point of doing something by allowing you to implement strategically. So, instead of a huge project, you solve one problem or tackle one challenge at a time at less cost and less risk. Your time and resource allocation are now doable. And, you do it in a way that creates the interactions that make the difference.
The clear path should also allow you to see beyond the first tool. It should become the foundation that creates the realizable possibility to continue putting your ideas in motion.
But that's moving ahead. Beyond the point of the motivation you need to act.
What you need is the ability to solve one vital issue, bring that idea to life, make it interactive so users adopt it readily and then evaluate and decide what's next. What's going to make the next difference?
At this point your success becomes a collaboration, because a natural extension of a well-implemented online tool will spawn requests for more. You'll be able to evaluate the results, fine tune and move forward with that conviction in a healthy place.
David Pollard makes another good point: "If you don't start, it could soon be too late."
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