Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.
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I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.
Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.
My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.
So it takes years to make a solid company.
It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
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