Innovation versus timing

Time constraints and other critical success factors for delivering a Minimally Viable Product.

Looming Deadlines

As a seasoned digital practitioner with 30 years of experience, I often find myself navigating the delicate balance between innovation and timing. Recently, I had to shelve yet another idea—not because it lacked potential, but because the timing just wasn't right. Despite having a perfect business model tailored for an underserved population and an incredibly qualified team of partners, I lacked the necessary resources to bring this idea to life.
In order for this idea (https://www.foreveryidea.com/idea-museum/justsayyes) to help disconnected clinical decision-makers understand their role in expediting care transitions, I needed a massive real-world digital presentation that could both:

1. virtually simulate expensive real-world critical healthcare scenarios; and
2. demonstrate how expedited care transition protocols could impact patient health outcomes.

While, in 2020, I did achieve some success with a minimally viable (web-based) presentation architecture that could be used by advanced graphic processing technologies to project three-dimensional (3D) objects on real-world surfaces, such as:

1. a conference room table with a miniaturized “hybrid office” environment; and
2. a real-world environment with a life-sized “hybrid office” simulation.

However, this isn't enough to simulate the multiple care environments in a real-world critical care transport scenario. After spending two years during the pandemic only to create one virtual worksite, I decided to pause this project.
 
…And while it might seem like my efforts have come to a halt, this is not the end. The underlying technology was web-based and is self-improving. As digital capabilities advance, the effort required to complete this idea continues to diminish. I remain optimistic that when the time is right, I can pick up where I left off and bring this vision to life with only a few kilobytes of bandwidth and less than a penny’s worth of electricity.
 
If interested in learning more about this and other “digitally abandoned” ideas, regarding real-world simulation please visit my blog (https://www.foreveryidea.com/idea-museum/real-world-solution-visualization) 

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