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Analyze
Trends
Understand the
drivers of change.
Look at your business from
outside in
and ask ‒ relentlessly ‒
searching questions, such as 'What's happening in
the marketplace? Where the competitors are heading?'
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Empathize
with consumers to understand how
their needs
are changing.
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Visualize the Future
and Make a
Contrastive
Analysis
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Visualize the big picture
of the future, compare it with the current state of things and
identify things that differ from one another.
Think strategically about your way towards that future.
A
milestone-based thinking approach will help you anticipate the
specific needs of your business.
Engage Your
Subconscious
Mind
The
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subconscious
mind is the feeling mind. It reasons inductively, from the specific
to the general. It works millions times faster than the conscious
mind. The energy in the subconscious mind is inexhaustible. Using
the subconscious mind is effortless. Once anticipation became habit
‒ in other words, the task was relegated to the subconscious mind ‒
it became so easy, that you do not have to think about it when you
are doing it.
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Question Strategic
Assumptions
Any strategic decision or plan
is only as good as the strategic
assumptions upon which it is based. Consider the
situation from
many
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different angles. Allow
originality to
provoke new
images of
reality.
When an existing
paradigm
no longer adequately predicts relevant phenomenon, adopt
a new paradigm.
open your mind and start
thinking
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differently,
outside the box.
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Discover Opportunities
Play
Simulation
Games
Entrepreneurial simulation games, such as
Innovation Football, will help
you anticipate challenges, deal with them
creatively, and ultimately
exceed the initially desired results of a
radical change
project.

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