by Drew Boyd | Nov 11, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, Subtraction, The Economist
“The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.” Harold R McAlindon How does a company build enough innovation capability to be the leader in its industry? That was the focus of this week’s...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 4, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Wheel
Systematic methods of innovation and design will help you produce a pipeline of ideas. But this creates a new, maybe tougher problem for the practitioner: How do you pick the right ideas to work on? Filtering ideas is an essential part of the innovation process. You...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 28, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist, The Wheel
Innovators have a rough road ahead. Despite the mandate for growth and the pleas for a more innovative culture, innovators face a lot of challenges from both inside and outside the organization. That was the major theme we explored this week in “Innovation and...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 21, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation
October brings the start of the U.S. baseball championship called the World Series. Baseball, like innovation, is a team sport, and success demands best practices out of the players and team managers. We thought it might be useful compare innovation and baseball given...
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 | Sep 30, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Pinterest, The Economist
The University of Cincinnati’s first Massive Open Online Course begins next week, October 7th. The course is free and open to all. You should take this course because 1. you can do it even while you are traveling, and 2. ALL the content is optional. Just surf...