Opportunity Foresight:
Too often attempts to stimulate innovation rely on the belief that innovation can come from anyone in the enterprise. While this belief holds an element of truth, without compelling, clear and focused direction for where innovations are actually needed, innovation efforts can produce a lot of activity with few results.

Opportunity Foresight provides forward-thinking leaders in our client companies with an approach to not only identify and agree upon relevant factors shaping the future external landscape, but also to surface "sweets spots" of opportunity with which to focus and direct innovation efforts. Clients have used this approach for targeting their invention efforts, as a foundation and prelude to their strategic planning efforts, and for relevant scenario planning.

When leadership gets clearer about future external realities before deciding what to do about them, opportunities for innovation can be identified with greater coherence and conviction, subsequent strategic conversations are more robust, and alternate scenarios end up more relevant and useful to the company's leaders and planning process.

"Vincent & Associates, Ltd. provides the company with a wider strategic viewpoint than that previously held. Vincent & Associates' facilitation skills were invaluable in bring together a diverse and not necessarily harmonious group, which was an important first step in what will be a long and complex journey." -Executive Director, Technical Association for Pulp and Paper Industry