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The ‘First Mile’ is that which connects to each one of us. A product that reaches me, that I see, that I see I need, I see that I can afford, and can get it home…. and the wife or other doesn’t kill me for dragging it in.
Now anything that stands in the way, that makes me rethink too many times so I lose my focus, essentially kills innovation. I guess they call it ‘innovation’ because you have to take it ‘in’ and it’s a ‘new thing’ , ‘nov ation’.
So when any ‘authority’ begins to question a ‘new thing’, or taxes it more, or causes it to cost more to store or use, or causes other things to cost more, so we suspect that in the future it will cost more, …. these ideas as paranoid as they might seem, starve innovation and may kill it because the projected model fails expectation, investors lose confidence and phones are disconnected, etc.
This is another reason why in the bigger scheme of ‘things’, taxes and regulation need to be very carefully crafted so as not to starve the access of innovation that will bring something new or better to each of us who have determined that this ‘innovation’ would improve our lives.
An example is the cell phone. Nothing needs to be done to use it within the home. The first mile needs nothing. Ironically, the government puts a 15 percent tax on the privilege, dampening cell phone use … because it can and it encourages people to keep their land lines as well because the cost is less. The success of television, earlier also has a similar benefit, you plug it in and the signal is all around you.
Anyway, even if this is a HarvardBusiness.org publication, the analysis is sound. After all it’s not a physical thing like the collapsed bridge over the Charles River, that MIT had to redesign, but who named it Harvard Bridge (well maybe they paid for it).
So when you have a new idea, you not only have to make it, shine a light on it and explain it, you have to make sure that it’s easily installed and used.
Of course, there are always those who will buy the ‘trash compactor’, which doubles as a stool, and you sit on a spring loaded piston which jams your garbage into a special heavy bag. I bought one.
Don’t forget to read the entire story:- Bloomberg.com
