Opportunity Management

  • Aristotle said, "What is possible is what we achieve through our agency [including what our friend could achieve for us]… Deliberation is about the actions he can do, and actions are for the sake of other things; hence we deliberate about things that promote an end, not about the end." (Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics)

  • Kant said "For, in lawless freedom, imagination, with all its wealth, produces nothing but nonsense; the power of judgment, on the other hand, is the faculty that makes it consonant with understanding. Taste, like judgment in general, is the discipline (or corrective) of genius. … It introduces a clearness and order into the plenitude of thought, and in so doing, gives stability to the ideas, and qualifies them at once for permanent and universal approval." (Kant’s Critique of Judgment)

  • "A mind freed from constraints to arrive at a creative inference" (American philosopher Charles S. Pierce)

  • Roger Martin asserts that "Design Thinking" is about the creation of, as well as the adaptive use of a body-of behaviors and values. Design thinking embeds integrative thinking throughout the entire organization.

  • In his book "The Opposable Mind", Roger Martin states: "At its core, integrative thinking requires the integration of mastery and originality. Without mastery there won’t be a useful salience, causality, or architecture. Without originality, there will be no creative resolution. Without creative resolution, there will be no enhancement of mastery, and when mastery stagnates, so does originality. Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent."

  • Opportunity management determines which projects are worth pursuing before dedicating excessive resources.

  • The screening and assessment criteria will act as a continuous gage to determine the viability of the project.

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