Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency and World Population

What if countries were sized proportional to their population? What would the world look like? Take a look at this map (reported by NPR.org): It’s a nice example of the Attribute Dependency Technique, one of five in the innovation method called Systematic...

Creating New Products With The Division Technique

You can frequently make groundbreaking innovations simply by dividing a product into “chunks” to create many smaller versions of it. These smaller versions still function like the original product, but their reduced size delivers benefits that users wouldn’t get with...

Why Super Bowl Commercials Are So Effective

Super Bowl commercials capture our attention because they tend to be highly creative and well-produced. At around $4 million dollars for a thirty second spot, Super Bowl advertisers need to create the best, most innovative commercials possible. To do that, they use...