'Business leaders should read science fiction novels'
The influence that the great artists of science fiction (SF) gave, such as the image that human beings drawn by William Gibbson connect with the computer, and the image of cyber punk that Philip K. Dick built, is in the genre and the influence. Not only is it generally seen in stories, it is said to extend to the real world. As for the size of the influence, SF works that portray the world of the future as a valuable idea that inspires engineers and designers in the actual business scene are attracting attention, and “business leaders should read SF to go further Until it is claimed.
Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction
Using science fiction to explore business innovation
https://www.digitalpulse.pwc.com.au/science-fiction-explore-business-innovation/
An article published in 2017 by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) , a professional services firm that provides advice to 440 of the Fortune 500 companies that the business magazine Fortune creates once a year based on total revenue. So, 'SF is consistently predicting future technology and social phenomena, and using SF works enables organizations to generate ideas that lead to their own innovation,' said the possibility of SF business innovation. It is told. Depiction of the future in science fiction works is not for future prediction but for entertainment, but unlike fantasy, it often focuses on physically possible subjects, and in fact, old works are the development of technology to the present day In addition, SF has the property of giving light to 'the way of being a human being', as it sometimes insists on changes in society and society.
Also, according to PwC, science fiction works can have a 'design fiction approach', and this method can be said to be useful for real problems. This is to explore the new product and its operation method in the SF without being hampered by the realistic aspects that become obstacles to creativity in the real business scene, namely financial limitations and technological limitations. Because you can, you can develop a kind of thinking experimental idea. After a company develops a thing, the idea for verifying the feasibility of the product in the future world on the spot is packed in the SF.
by Thomas Hawk
Similarly, the Harvard Business Review , a journal of business administration in 2017, insists that 'business leaders need to read science fiction to stay ahead.' Science-fiction is not useful because it is prophetic, but science-fiction reflects reality rather than drawing the future, and it is useful because it rebuilds our world. SF is valuable in that it is possible to question hard-foiled common sense by bringing the idea of another universe to the mind that is bound by preconception.
The movement to refer to the ideas of science fiction works in the real business scene like this has already been done by well-known companies. Microsoft is inviting nine science fiction writers to a research center that is also in progress on a top secret project, and is giving explanations of research content and asking questions and answers. The purpose is to provide science fiction writers with ideas and to stimulate the science fiction novels drawn by science fiction writers.
From the point of view of a repository of ideas that unleash your solid thoughts, it can be said that science fiction works set in an extended future from the reality give business unexpected innovation. However, even fantasy works that are largely separated from reality, and romances and youth novels that are not rich in innovative ideas as they are in reality, can be obtained from business books and instructional books written from a realistic viewpoint. It may be possible to bring about no innovation within itself. If you get stuck in your career and are both technically and mentally intimidated, you may be able to naturally bring about such breakthroughs when you step into the fictional world.
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