Breakthrough solutions are the result of creative and innovative thinking, ideas, and implementation. These types of solutions offer the promise of rapid advancement to those who:

• View broad-based development as a whole system rather than as the sum of its individual parts.
  
• Come forward with the right ideas that are implemented in an effective and efficient manner.

Breakthrough solutions for broad-based development offer the best alternative for moving Arkansas forward to be competitive in a technology-based global economy while offering a high quality of life for all of its people.

Arkansas’ pilgrimage along the road to progress may be compared to a distance runner struggling up a winding mountain road that spirals upward towards a peak called "Prosperity." Although making absolute progress, Arkansas as a whole trails the others in this race, often having to live on what is left over from those that have passed along this road before them and suffocating from the dust left by these more gifted and accomplished runners.

How can Arkansas ever hope to catch up and make relative progress? There are two alternatives:

• Alternative 1 - Arkansas may seek to run faster along the same path as those before them, doing the same types of things but somehow doing them more efficiently and effectively and usually with fewer resources.
• Alternative 2 - Arkansas can craft breakthrough solutions, effectively creating a new path that circumvents the other runners. Breakthrough solutions, by their very nature, require great ingenuity coupled with special types of resources. This new path is truly the “road less traveled,” one that has more risk, but also the one that offers the greatest promise for Arkansas if it is to ever be competitive in the race towards prosperity.