by Drew Boyd | Jul 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Business schools and companies need to create more internships dedicated to innovation. Most MBA internships continue to focus on traditional core functions like marketing, finance, and strategy. A few schools have innovation internships, but they focus on the...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 5, 2009 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Technology
“We put the ‘NO’ in innovation!” The good people at Post Cereal have a new twist on innovation…NOT innovating as a statement of the product’s ubiquity and staying power. “Some things just weren’t meant to be innovated.” How could I resist? It was just too...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Placing advertisements on objects such as billboards and taxis is nothing new. But here is a new twist using task unification. It is one of five templates in the corporate innovation method called S.I.T. Task Unification assigns an additional “job” to an...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 23, 2009 | Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
Here is an opportunity to learn innovation from the same people who taught me. The course is called Innovation Suite 2009, and will be held July 27-29, 2009 in Rochester, Minnesota. For registration and more detailed information, please go to...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Are hopeful employees more innovative? A new study by Armenio Rego and his colleagues shows how employees’ sense of hope explains their creative output at work. They asked one hundred and twenty five employees to rate their personal sense of hope and happiness...