by Drew Boyd | Oct 31, 2008 | Innovation Clusters, Technology, The Wheel
Do systematic methods of innovation work on services and processes? This may be the most common question from corporate executives who want to learn innovation methods. This month's LAB will focus on a familiar corporate process: employee...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Katie Konrath at getFreshMinds.com tackles a common mistake in innovation – packing new features into existing products as a way to innovate – a problem I call “feature creep.” Her main point: people pack products to the brim with features to...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 13, 2008 | The Wheel
George Orwell died January 21, 1950 at the age of 46. He is considered one of the great all-time fiction writers with works like Animal House and Nineteen Eighty Four. What if he were alive today? What would he say, and what would he write about? What if he blogged?...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 28, 2008 | Creativity Tools, Technology, The Wheel
Here are ten innovations for the iPhone that I would love to see. I created these using the Attribute Dependency tool. It is the most powerful of the five tools of Systematic Inventive Thinking, but also the most difficult to learn. To use Attribute Dependency, we...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Innovation is a team sport, and no one describes this better than Professor Keith Sawyer in his book, Group Genius. Keith’s blog, Creativity & Innovation, highlights one of the most significant aspects of successful innovation – that groups of people...