Peter Drucker’s Seven Sources of Innovative Opportunity

It refers to the active and intentional process of identifying potential opportunities for innovation, growth, or value creation in various aspects of life, including entrepreneurship, business, career development, and personal growth.

• Opportunity Screening

• Opportunity Seeking

• Opportunity Seizing

It refers to a lack of harmony, consistency, or compatibility between elements, ideas, or situations. It involves a state of being inappropriately or unexpectedly different or contradictory.

• Unexpected Occurrences

• Innovation

• Incongruity

It refer to the statistical characteristics of a population or a specific group of people. These characteristics are often used to analyze and describe various aspects of a population, such as age, gender, income, education, ethnicity, marital status, and more.

• Demographics

• Inforgraphics

• Geographics

These changes can have a profound impact on an individual's well-being, behavior, and outlook on life.

• Knowledge

  Innovation

  Technology

• Mood

  Perception

  Meaning

• Mental Health

  Social Health

  Environmental Health

Advances in scientific and nonscientific knowledge can create new products and new markets.

• Innovation

• New Knowledge

• Changes in industry or market structure

The opportunity for an innovative product, service or business approach occurs when the underlying foundation of the industry or market shifts.

• Innovation

• New Knowledge

• Changes in industry or market structure

An unforseen success, an unepredicted failure or outside event can be a symptom of a unique opportunity.

• Demographics

• Unexpected occurrences

• Incongruity

The increased focus on science and technology led to the creation of technology amidst a growing economy.

• New Knowledge

• Innovation

• Incongruity