by Drew Boyd | Sep 28, 2009 | Creativity Tools, Technology, The Wheel
Ice hockey is big business. But it lags behind other professional sports – soccer, football, baseball, and basketball. As with all industries, the key to growth is innovation. Equipment manufacturers such as Reebok are taking this seriously with the creation of...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Building a prototype of your innovation is a crucial link between conceiving the idea and commercializing it. A physical prototype helps you get immediate feedback from customers, designers, and financial backers as to the commercial viability of the project. It is a...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling (1902) Here is a simple template to create your company’s innovation strategy: WHAT: Determine what business lines are to...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 30, 2009 | Creativity Tools, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Inside the Box Innovation
Innovating is mental, visual, and vocal. Here is a new product to help capture…and coordinate…all three. It is called the PulseTM by Livescribe. The PulseTM is a smart pen that records and links audio to what your write, so you never miss a word…or...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Health Care Reform, as the U.S. government sees it, promises lower costs, better access, and improved quality for all. Let’s apply a structured innovation method to health care to see if we can achieve some of these goals. For this month’s LAB, we will...
