Opportunity identification looks beyond automating current tasks and asks which useful work is absent because it was too slow, expensive, specialized, or difficult to coordinate. Changes in software creation and model capability can make new products or services viable.
A real opportunity needs evidence about users, value, feasibility, risks, and alternatives. Rapid prototyping can test assumptions, while domain judgment prevents technical novelty from being mistaken for a worthwhile problem.
ELI5
Opportunity identification finds useful work that new technology makes possible. It asks not only how to do today's task faster, but what valuable task people could not afford or organize before.
For example, cheap coding and analysis may let a small team build a specialized monitoring service for a narrow industry. A prototype and user evidence show whether the idea solves a real problem.
