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… If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.

Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell′s The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.

In my constituency, however, we have the YIMBYs—which stands for “yes in my backyard”. We want an airport at Finningley.