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 — bigger, stranger, and less forgiving of anyone who waited to move. It doesn't reward whoever predicts it. It rewards whoever builds, watches closely, and adjusts — not whoever just builds and hopes.

Explore what's next. Build what matters.

Practice — four disciplines, running at once

Practice

Four disciplines — running concurrently
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.
Vantage — six roles, one trace linkedin

Vantage

Six entries — public record
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
Field Notes — writing in the open substack

Field Notes

Writing — public record
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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Substack
Live
Reach — an open channel linkedin

Reach

Inbound channel
To connect, or to exchange a perspective — say what's on your mind.
Read personally — reply not guaranteed on a fixed timeline
Sent. Opening your mail client to send it through.
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