The Innovator’s Trusts (InT) Theory

The Innovator’s Journey is moderated by “Trusts". Each innovator endures personal risk in sharing the results from the ideation and opportunity recognition. They seek development and support of those ideas from three authenticated types of trusts. Direct trust is observational. Indirect trust is reputational. Hybrid trust is distributive. Innovators entrust intermediaries to facilitate and advance the development process. Intermediaries who can facilitate the transfer of knowledge and/or emit knowledge spillover accelerate the Innovator’s Journey.

2025 Update: The vertical integration of artificial intelligence enables us to build and leverage economies of trust with peers & resource providers to visualize enterprises, advance problem-solving, advance decision-making, articulate strategy, and assess outcomes within our networks of trusts.