The Innovators Oracle
How Innovation Can Benefit From Futurists
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who — Rudyard Kipling
Innovators and entrepreneurs, often, become so attached to their ideas that their blind side expands to obscure the whole horizon. Also, unless they are good futurists themselves, it is hard to size the future growth of their market without understanding the mega trends shaping their market. This article lays out the impoetsnve of futurists who can look at a multidisciplinary view of the world and therefore help innovators to overcome their blind sides and to avoid a siloed approach to business problems.
The Role Of A Futurist
In Ancient Greece, an Oracle was a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity. A
As per the Merriam Webster dictionary, Innovation (noun), for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field. One might say that the first telephone was an invention, the first cellular telephone either an invention or an innovation, and the first smartphone an…
