by Drew Boyd | Mar 7, 2011 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Kickstarter, Multiplication
Business model innovation was one of many hot topics at Innovation Suite 2011. The conference hosted thirty two invitees from nine countries and a variety of companies including GE, Bayer, Kraft, and SAP. On the minds of many was how to create new business models to...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 28, 2011 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Technology
Airline service innovation seems like an oxymoron considering the industry’s reputation for low quality. But the industry is fighting back to improve its image. Companies that specialize in inflight entertainment as well as airframe manufacturers are...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 8, 2010 | Consultants, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Technology, The Wheel
Blackberry is taking a shellacking from iPhone and Android. It’s market share has declined 4% in four months. Why? The company drifted from a strategy built around its core competency and is frantically chasing its app-crazed competitors. Though Blackberry...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 27, 2010 | Consultants, Technology
Task Unification is a great tool when you have a general idea of the direction you want to go or business challenge you are dealing with. It is one of five templates in the Systematic Inventive Thinking method. Like all the templates, it helps regulate and channel the...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 12, 2010 | Consultants, Ideation
Task Unification is a hard working innovation tool. Task Unification assigns an additional task to an existing resource or component of the product or service. Here is a clever example from Springwise. It is a service called “Itizen.” It allows you to...
