In this respect, the key to a pilot's success is its very lack of ambition.
The young editor "thought he was developing a pilot, where success is about making it work," the CEO told us.
Like the initiatives in semantic publishing outlined earlier, the Semantic BJ, powered by Utopia Documents, is a pilot, the success of which will depend on various factors, including whether the barriers to adoption are sufficiently low, and whether the approach is considered to add sufficient value.
This would allow the development of a business case and would likely depend on service bureaus to improve the odds of pilot success while reducing the impact of capital expenditures.
Beyond pilot success, the bigger challenge is scaling up.
Beyond pilot success, the bigger challenge is growing from 'seed to scale'.
40– 42 Indoor residual spraying (IRS) using dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was first introduced in 1946 and expanded to rural areas by 1951 following pilot success in larger towns.
Policy development would benefit from continuing with long term capacity building province-wide that is informed by research and local pilot successes.
A pilot Pay for Success program, now part of the Social Innovation Fund, will take this concept even further by supporting ways for state and local governments to leverages philanthropic and private dollars to fund services up front, with the government paying after they generate results.
But the National Institute of Mental Health has been sufficiently impressed with the early results of integrative couples therapy -- a pilot study had a success rate of 80percentt -- to award $3 million for a clinical trial involving about 150 couples.
A pilot project was deemed a success, and the policy was rolled out nationwide.
