The phrase "adjacent possibilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing options or opportunities that are close to one another, often in creative or strategic thinking.
Example: "In brainstorming sessions, we often explore adjacent possibilities to expand our range of ideas and solutions."
Alternatives: "nearby options" or "related opportunities".
If you're not prepared, it will be immobilizing to find just how easy it is for competitors to act on these ideas because they learned how to identify, depend on and even exploit adjacent possibilities — things that are already possible today and can be easily recombined in a new way to generate the next big thing.
We call these innovation opportunities adjacent possibilities and we have just written a new report about them called Innovating the Adjacent Possible.
It means you should direct your team to obsess about today's adjacent possibilities, not tomorrow's distant improbabilities.
It's because most of those adjacent possibilities on which you will ultimately depend have yet to emerge from the combination of other adjacencies on which they will depend.
The idea of adjacent possibilities started with evolutionary biologist Stuart Kauffman, who used it to explain how such powerful biological innovations as sight and flight came into being.
Have the courage to set aside the ten-year future vision because there is no way you will anticipate all the adjacent possibilities that will have to combine between now and then to accurately predict what products you will sell or how you will sell them that far out.
This product is so obvious that if this is an adjacent possibility for your company, you should stop reading this and begin planning how you'll participate now.
With reference to Kaufman's "expanding the adjacent possible" [ 17] we explicitly incorporate the space of possibilities in the form of an underlying true network.
But there's a simpler possibility, which is that the innovation in question had simply become part of the adjacent possible.
Besides frame by frame analysis and the analysis of adjacent frames, the possibility of the extended method for combining similar information across frames allows to consider different alternative architectures.
Structural inspection revealed that Val40 is situated at the interface of the KSI dimer and is positioned to pack against Val74 in a loop in the adjacent monomer, raising the possibility that packing interactions extending across the dimer interface contribute to function.
