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Competition For The Future Is Competition To Create And Dominate Emerging Opportunities-to Stake Out New Competitive Space. Creating The Future Is More Challenging Than Playing Catch Up, In That You Have To Create Your Own Roadmap.

One Way Of Building Private Foresight Out Of Public Data Is Looking Where Others Aren't ... If You Want To See The Future, Go To An Industry Confab And Get The List Of What Was Talked About. Then Ask, "what Did People Never Talk About?" That's Where You're Going To Find Opportunity.

The Problem With The Future Is That It Is Different, If You Are Unable To Think Differently, The Future Will Always Arrive As A Surprise.

**new Business Concepts Are Always, Always The Product Of Lucky Foresight.** That's Right - The Essential Insight Doesn't Come Out Of Any Dirigiste Planning Process; It Comes Form Some Cocktail Of Happenstance, Desire, Curiosity, Ambition And Need. But At The End Of The Day, There Has To Be A Degree Of Foresight -- A Sense Of Where New Riches Lie. So Radical Innovation Is Always One Part Fortuity And One Part Clearheaded Vision. [first-line Bold By Author] [2002] P.23

The Biggest Barriers To Strategic Renewal Are Almost Always Top Management's Unexamined Beliefs.