The Seven Stages of Innovating the Invisible — Jeffrey Van Dyk
A Framework by Jeffrey Van Dyk

The 7 Stages of
"Innovating the Invisible"

The art of turning the unseen into the inevitable — a map for leaders and founders bringing visionary work to market.

01  Vision Clarification
05  Thought Leadership
02  Market Positioning
06  Coalition Building
03  Proof of Concept
07  Industry Adoption
04  Market Creation

Innovating the Invisible is the art of turning the unseen into the inevitable. Put more plainly, it's bringing visionary work to market in a way that both performs better than existing solutions and ultimately changes what the market believes is possible. This is for leaders and founders in traditional industries who sense there's a next chapter to their work and know they are called to usher something new into their market and industry.

These seven stages trace that arc, from a nascent idea to full market transformation: clarifying what's emerging, translating it into form, testing it in the world, and ultimately building the ecosystem that makes the new way the industry's default. Read through the whole sequence and find exactly where you stand and where you're headed next.

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