by Drew Boyd | Dec 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The athletic footwear market is maturing, so it will need sustained innovation to keep growing. “Performance footwear” emerged with the ancient Greeks and has since grown to a $50 billion global industry. Innovations such as vulcanized rubber, high tops,...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 20, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Wheel
A church needed a new bell ringer. When a man with no arms applied for the job, the doubting priest asked, “Can you ring the bell?” The applicant climbed the bell tower, took a running start, and plowed his face into the bell producing a beautiful tone. He...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 13, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method
Innovation Management is an online magazine offering best practice and inspiration to innovation management practitioners. It sources and provides articles in collaboration with experts in the field of innovation management from leading business schools, companies and...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 6, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Economist
Today marks the third anniversary of Innovation in Practice. I am happy to say I see no end in sight. Blogging is the ultimate truth serum: it helps you discover what you know, how you learn, and how you connect to a community of fellow bloggers. I use this blog to...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 29, 2010 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Kickstarter, Subtraction
Crowdsourcing has a crowd of critics. Crowdsourcing is the notion of distributed problem-solving where problems are broadcast to large groups of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. The belief is that the “wisdom of the crowd” yields superior...
