Serendipity as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Business

Accidental Discoveries

Serendipity as a Source of Competitive Advantage

VadiK

Inventor

Author

Founder

Serendipity creates great value for business. Help your people to turn accidental discoveries into a profitable habit.

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Serendipity is an attitude and aptitude for making unintended discoveries by accident ‒ habitually.

Serendipity helps you create unplanned and unintended, but remarkable innovative value by taking advantage of unanticipated, unexpected and unsought information and make accidental discoveries.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

Some of the greatest things have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

Alan
Alda

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity. Organizations should allow serendipity to happen, because all of the magic is at the intersection of disciplines now.

Tom Kelley

IDEO

Serendipity as a Source of Competitive Advantage

Developing serendipity as a corporate capability and leveraging it to your competitive advantage will help you to:

▪ Discover new opportunities faster than your competitors

▪ Generate outside-the-box business ideas and create innovative synergies

▪ Turn problems to opportunities.

How To Make Discoveries

SARS Models of Discovering and Inventing

Accidental Discoveries

Scientific Method

Three Components of Serendipity

① Having a prepared open mind, being ready to make a serendipitous discovery any time

② Observing and noticing

③ Being passionate about creating innovative and valuable connections

Example: Invention of Velcro

Experimentation

Ask Learning SWOT Questions

Keep your mind wide open, search for discoveries always and everywhere, and discoveries will search for you.

Entrepreneurial Serendipity

Entrepreneurial serendipity is about discovering entrepreneurial opportunities accidentally and pursuing them experimentally in an entrepreneurial way.

Entrepreneurial Serendipity

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It is entrepreneurial serendipity that teaches how great things could be created unintentionally. It gives hope and support to the entrepreneurs that there could be a great discovery.

Sonam Wangmo

If you love what you do, love to create innovative value, and keep your mind open, your innopreneurial journey will be full of accidental discoveries.

Serendipity Tips for Business and Innovation

▪ To develop serendipity, adopt an attitude of a Loving Creator, keep your mind open, and be prepared to discover entrepreneurial opportunities for value innovation any time and everywhere.

▪ When an experiment doesn't produce an expected result, don't discard it outright. Ask learning SWOT questions and experiment with the unexpected outcome to see what comes out of it.

▪ Watch people while they are using your product or invention. Be prepared to discover breakthrough opportunities if you see people using your products in a way you never dreamed of.

▪ Notice how disruptive people use or treat ordinary things in an outside-the-box way. Apply a similar mindset to your business.

▪ In partnership negotiation, expect to discover unexpected advantages or benefits incurred due to positive synergy effects of the alliance.

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