Implementation Challenges Quotes

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Redesigning a strategy is an excellent way to avoid implementing the strategy.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

The American people are opposed to ObamaCare. They were when the law passed; they're still opposed to it. But the fact of the matter is it's got to be implemented. We're trying to do our part even here in Nebraska. It's very, very difficult.

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.

The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

In information technology, money is not the issue. Willingness to implement and execute is the issue.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.

I suspect that it would be impossible to arrange an affirmative action program in a racially neutral way and have it successful. To ask that this be so is to demand the impossible.

There has never been a major program in this country that when it was first passed, didn’t have glitches in it.

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.