by Drew Boyd | Sep 21, 2015 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Jared Diamond
When you try on a new piece of clothing, like a shirt or a new jacket, what do you see when you look in the mirror? If you’re like most consumers, you’re not looking at the clothing. Rather, you’re looking at yourself and thinking about how that new clothing fits the...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 14, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Help, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters
On any given day, it’s estimated that 1 in 25 hospital patients in the U.S. has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That includes pneumonia; gastrointestinal illness; or infections of the...
by Drew Boyd | May 6, 2015 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
SIT is a collection of five techniques and a set of principles to help generate quality ideas on demand. One of the challenges you can have is deciding which technique to use. So here are some rules of thumb to get you started. At the start of any project, I generally...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 6, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting
One way you can use the Task Unification Technique is to make an internal component take on the function of an external component in a Closed World. In effect, the internal component “steals” the external component’s function. Five universities in the United Kingdom...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 30, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation
Some people regard the Spanish Civil War as a romantic war, one in which many idealistic men and women were prepared to sacrifice their lives for what they perceived as the social good. But as Hector, Prince of Troy, said, “There is nothing poetic in death.” In less...
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...
