This tool can help management sharpen their focus by nurturing curiosity to understand social, economic, and technology trends. Curiosity enables observation of details, which informs sharp, well-focused actions to achieve timely results. The document provides examples of how curiosity led engineers to observe nature for design inspiration, like a boxfish inspiring a car design and stick-it notes.

2. The benefit of this tool This tool can help your top and middle management to sharpen their focus in business

3. Curiosity For your enterprise to be in tune with the trends of the times, you have to continuously nurture your senior management. You have to ignite their interest and endless curiosity to absorb the history, present and future of the social, economic and technology trends in the world. This is a challenge, but if they can lead in a transformation mode, your business will always connect with your end-customers. Observation Interest at a macro level can result in curiosity to focus on micro observation. The capacity to minutely observe a subject can change your business perspective. Action Intense curiosity and high quality observation can give your action sharp focus and to be on time to get results.

4. Boxfish aspired automobile design, imitated most aerodynamic forms resulting in a speedy ride Action: DaimlerChrysler made a working model based on boxfish design Observation: Dieter Gürtler observed homely boxfish. Examining the model's friction dynamics it performed almost as well as the shape of a water droplet, the most aerodynamic of forms Curiosity: Dieter Gürtler, top engineer of Daimler Chrysler when asked to design a new car concept visited museum of natural history to find a concept

5. Sticky bookmarks Action: Flash of insight that he could make a bookmark that would stick to products and could be removed without causing any damage. Arrival of post it notes Observation: Dr. Spence Silver’s created a new type of glue that wasn't very sticky, and would never dry Curiosity: Arthur Fry a chemist for 3M was pondering how to make bookmarks that would not fall out.