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 | Oct 27, 2014 | Consultants, Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Innovative Marketing
Many “wearable tech” devices measure the calories you burn in a day. But weight watchers know that’s only half the equation. You also need an accurate count of calories consumed. Now a new device will do just that. It’s called Vessyl, a cup...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 30, 2014 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation
The famous inventor, Thomas Edison, lived in a beautiful home. But something was unusual about the gate that led into his house. His visitors had to push the gate very hard to open it, and then again very hard to close it. It seemed odd that such a successful inventor...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 9, 2014 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Kickstarter, Pinterest
The SIT method is great for creating exciting new products and services. But you can also apply these techniques to digital assets. For example, let’s apply the Attribute Dependency technique to a website. You start by listing the internal and external attributes of...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 9, 2013 | Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg
Umbrellas have been around a very long time dating back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. Yet, little has changed to the basic concept…until recently. Here are five examples of innovative umbrellas that could have been invented with one of the techniques of...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 2, 2013 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, The Wheel
Philips North America announced Fosmo Med, developer of the Maji Intravenous (IV) saline bag, as the grand prize winner of the first-ever Philips Innovation Fellows competition, revealing the technology as the next big, meaningful innovation in health and well-being....
