by Drew Boyd | Mar 23, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond
Training programs, by design, are meant to provoke and cause changes. Changes can be in the skills, attitudes, behaviors, or knowledge of the participants. For leadership training programs, the ability to “think differently” seems to be at the top of many...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 16, 2015 | Advertising Tools, Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Culture of Innovation
The Unification Tool is a tricky but effective tool for outdoor advertising. Unification recruits an existing resource and forces it to carry the advertising message. That resource can come from within the medium itself or within the environment of the medium. In...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 12, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
As a teacher, it’s always rewarding to see my students create ideas that eventually make it into the marketplace. Here are some great innovations for the kitchen oven that a group of students created last year, January 2014. Later, we’ll compare these to...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 3, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early 1970s, a psychologist named J. P. Guilford was one of the first academic researchers who dared to conduct a study of creativity. One of...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 14, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The terms innovation and design thinking are used so often in so many different contexts, often interchanged, and sometimes misused. What do they really mean? More importantly, how do they relate to each other? These questions set the stage for “Innovation and Design...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 7, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Structured Creativity
The new Innovate! Inside the Box app facilitates the use of the creativity method, Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It explains each of the five techniques (Subtraction, Division, Task Unification, Multiplication, and Attribute Dependency) and allows users to...
