Assumptions

Assumptions are…assumptions.

Hypothesis.

A starting point.

We need them.

However, to make them really useful, we have to solve them.

Solving assumptions is confirming, infirming and transforming them.

Then assumptions become facts and knowledge.

And facts and knowledge are solid basis we can build on.

Converting assumptions into knowledge, this is a big part of the innovators job.

What complicates our work is that an important part of what we consider as to be facts and knowledge are in reality assumptions.

Helping others realizing this is the very first and important part of the job.