by Drew Boyd | Jun 9, 2017 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Ideation, Pinterest
The rush to put new technology in the home is heating up like never before. Challengersinclude Amazon (Echo), Google (Home), and soon we’ll have Apple’s Siri device. Microsoft can’t be far behind. Now here’s a completely different take on home...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 1, 2017 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Inside the Box Innovation, The Wheel
Innovation is the process of taking an idea and putting it into practice. Creativity, on the other hand, is what you do in your head to generate the idea, an idea that meets three criteria. An innovative idea must be new, useful, and surprising. New means that no one...
by Drew Boyd | May 8, 2017 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Economist, Uncategorized
Recently, I was delighted to receive a message from my friend, Frank Grunwald, Visiting Lecturer at Purdue University, telling me of his plans to incorporate Systematic Inventive Thinking into his spring Industrial Design course. An expert industrial designer himself,...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 27, 2017 | Google, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond, Structured Creativity
By Carol Ozemhoya, Contributing Editor at Vector Some people worry about technology costing people jobs and taking over the world as has been portrayed in many major motion pictures, such as the “Matrix” series. But in reality, a lot of the advances in technology have...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
As an innovation leader, you are now responsible for a bundle of resources that you’ll need to get the job done. Those resources include human resources – your team – and also include financial resources in the form of a budget. But a good leader thinks...
