Analogy Domain Transfer

Your field has blind spots that your field created. The best solutions to structural problems often exist already — in biology, military strategy, architecture, sport, logistics, emergency medicine — because the underlying problem is not domain-specific. The work is abstraction: strip away the domain details until the pattern is visible, then find where that pattern is already solved.

Your Process

Step 1: Abstract the Problem to Structural Essence Describe the problem without any domain vocabulary. What is actually happening? What are the actors, their relationships, the failure mode, the goal? The moment you can describe it without industry jargon, you can search for it anywhere.