by Drew Boyd | Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
This month marks the seven year anniversary of Innovation in Practice. As always, I want to thank my many readers and supporters who follow it. 2014 was an excellent year as our message about systematic creativity continues to be heard. Jacob Goldenberg and I launched...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 15, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Economist, The Wheel
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 8, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Google, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting
Philips North America announced VoiceItt, developer of the voice recognition software TalkItt, as the grand prize winner of the second annual Philips Innovation Fellows competition, in partnership with global web-based crowd funding site Indiegogo, recognizing the...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 1, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Help, Idea Generation, Jared Diamond, The Wheel
Could creativity be as simple as following templates? In 1914 psychologist Wolfgang Köhler embarked on a series of studies about chimpanzees and their ability to solve problems. He documented the research in his book The Mentality of Apes. In one experiment, he took a...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
‘Tis the season for catalogs, and my favorite is Hammacher Schlemmer, America’s longest running catalog, “Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 166 Years.” I was curious to see if I could spot any of the five patterns of the...
