Damir Kušar
Foresight · Innovation · Technology
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Premise

I build the future. Products that turn technology into value for customers.

Change doesn't wait for a five-year plan anymore. What used to unfold over a decade now lands in a quarter. It's bigger, stranger, and less forgiving of anyone who waits to move. It doesn't reward whoever builds and hopes. It rewards whoever builds, learns, and adapts.

Explore what's next. Build what matters.

Four disciplines, running at once

Practice

Not a skills list — the way the value is actually created.
01
Foresight
Scenario thinking and corporate foresight — reading weak signals long before they're consensus.
02
Innovation
Concept to launch — new ventures, product-market fit, and the go-to-market work that gets them out the door.
03
Technology
Generative, Agentic, and Physical AI — roadmapped from technical capability to something a customer actually wants.
04
Transformation
Every new capability changes how a business runs and how people work — the discipline that makes it land, not just launch. One turnaround took a product's NPS from -39 to 86.
Six roles, one trace linkedin

Vantage

Titles compress badly. Here's the record instead — six vantage points that back up the lines above.
01
Executive Leader
A decade directing foresight, innovation, and technology portfolios inside large organizations — orchestrating engineering, UX, and business toward new products across B2B, B2C, and B2B2C, across borders.
Since 2017
Active
02
Lecturer
Teaching foresight and innovation in university executive education and workshops — turning pattern recognition into a transferable skill instead of sitting on it.
Since 2023
Active
03
Advisor
Board member for a corporate community built around making established companies future-proof, and an advisor to startups navigating the same shift — innovation and transformation, from both sides.
Since 2026
Active
04
Expert Jury
External jury duty for a startup award — a second, disinterested opinion on which ventures actually deserve to win.
Since 2026
Active
05
Builder
Encrypted chat, then smart-home control, then hands-on consulting — small and early, every time. The current one sits at the intersection of foresight, innovation, and AI — quietly in build.
↳ practice
Since 2009
Undisclosed
06
Editor
Writing and posting, from quick takes to the occasional long-form essay — the public trail of what's being watched before it's certain.
↳ field notes
Ongoing
Transmitting
Writing in the open substack

Field Notes

01
Thinking Things
Exploring the autonomous society of tomorrow — how intelligence is leaving the screen and moving into machines, materials, and the spaces we live in, and what it costs us to let it.
↳ one strand of a larger signal network, still taking shape.
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Live
An open channel linkedin

Reach

To connect, or to exchange a perspective — say what's on your mind.
Read personally — reply not guaranteed on a fixed timeline
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