Phase III: Solution

Our research shows an incredible amount of effort occurs before an innovation idea materializes in its full entirety.

A delicate process of emergence unfolds during the earliest stages, as different sets of individuals and concept threads come together, separate, recombine, fade away, and advance forward ultimately into one innovation solution.

Few people mention that this beginning can be the hardest part of the innovation process. Foresight helps you start the next steps. Foresight gets you to the first solution.

Three tools allow you to prototype possible solutions:

White Spots

White Spots are a strategic tool for studying the future opportunity space defined by two salient issues. Opportunities can be discovered in the ‘white spots’, or empty areas.

Change Paths

Change Paths are a set of data-driven narratives exploring different paths and key decision points toward possible future innovations.

Paper Mockups

Paper mockups in three-dimensions (3D) are an advanced design method to prototype and communicate a new concept using paper and inexpensive materials. A specific iteration is the Dark Horse Prototype.