THE IDENTIFY SKILLS

While there are many skills that help us to identify opportunities, we will focus on six core attributes critical to this stage of innovation:

  1. To envision and imagine the future
  2. To see and understand trends
  3. To have a positive outlook and spot opportunities
  4. To expand personal connections and networks
  5. To enable others to look for new opportunities
  6. To provide strategic direction for others to explore possibilities

Let us look at each one in turn.

Throughout the chapters, I give examples and stories to help illustrate, and bring to life, this stage of innovation. I also include practical ways, or activities and tools, to help you improve your ability and confidence to identify opportunities. Here is a top-line summary of ...

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