by Drew Boyd | Sep 2, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation
The Task Unification Technique is one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking. It is defined as "assiging an additional task to an existing resource." It is such a powerful technique because it often leads to Closed World...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 29, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation
Phil Hansen suffered a career-threatening injury to his hand. Nerve damage caused his hand to shake uncontrollably. Most professions could deal with it. But as an artist, where a steady hand seems essential, it all but doomed Phil's career. That was until a...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 22, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Kickstarter
Books about business innovation seem to arrive as quickly as ideas on a whiteboard in a brainstorming session. But Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results (Simon & Schuster, 2013), by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg, jumps out for its...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 4, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation
The moment I walked into the classroom, I could see that something was different. The students were excited, I could feel the anticipation in the air—and something about their faces made me think that they were planning something mischievous. I understood their...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 4, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, The Wheel
Next week, Jacob Goldenberg and I will launch our new book, Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results. It is the first book to detail the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking, the subject of this blog for the last six...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 18, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Kickstarter
Responding to an article on why innovation is difficult, Tim Josling from Leura, Australia, wrote this to the editor of The Economist (January 26, 2013): Another useful insight is provided by something akin to Amdahl’s law in computer design, which holds that even if...
