If we’d had the Foresight Radar in the situations I described at the beginning of this article, we would have spotted the gaps, confirmed assumptions, and protected momentum and trust on time, which would have saved headaches and company funds.

First off, the Foresight Radar doesn’t replace your planning process, it is created to strengthen it. It clarifies what's already in motion, helps you see what's missing, and creates space for those conversations to happen now, not later.

We’ve never had more powerful tools, clearer frameworks, or smarter methodologies at our fingertips. Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, OKRs—each offers proven ways to improve execution. Yet despite these tools, teams still grapple with the same problems: reactive problem-solving, double work, unsynchronized efforts, and conflicting approaches across teams or departments….

The problem isn’t what we know—it’s how we work together. That’s the gap The Systems Edge aims to help close—by providing a practical lens and toolkit for better alignment, systemic clarity, and more adaptive decision-making.

Innovation blockers are rarely obvious. The trickiest ones are more like traps — appearing as business as usual or even as innovation enablers, when in reality, they stall progress and waste resources.