For this reason, industry foresight is a synthesis of many people’s visions. Often, journalists or sycophantic employees have described foresight as the “vision” of one person. Much of the credit for NEC’s visionary concept of “computers and communication” may have gone to Akira Kobayashi, but the idea of exploiting the convergence between the two industries synthesized the thinking of many in the company. Senior executives are not the only ones with industry foresight. In fact, their primary role is to capture and exploit the foresight that exists throughout the organization.