by Drew Boyd | Nov 11, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, Subtraction, The Economist
“The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.” Harold R McAlindon How does a company build enough innovation capability to be the leader in its industry? That was the focus of this week’s...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 7, 2013 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest
It’s official. Twitter is a publicly traded company, and it will face constant pressure to innovate and grow. Let’s look at how innovation methods can be applied to Twitter to find new opportunitues. We’ll apply the five techniques of Systematic...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 5, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Kickstarter
As Albert Einstein noted, one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it. That seems to be Blackberry’s predicament as it faces another drop in its stock value. However, with a fresh investment by Fairfax Holdings and a new CEO, Blackberry may have...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 4, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Wheel
Systematic methods of innovation and design will help you produce a pipeline of ideas. But this creates a new, maybe tougher problem for the practitioner: How do you pick the right ideas to work on? Filtering ideas is an essential part of the innovation process. You...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Authors Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg announced the launch of a new app that supports the innovation/creativity system outlined in their groundbreaking work: Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results (Simon & Schuster, 2013)....
