by Drew Boyd | Jul 3, 2017 | Creativity Tools, Help, Ideation
The United States Postal Service has just released a “first-of-its-kind” stamp that changes appearance when you touch it. What has inspired this small nugget of innovation? The August 21 total eclipse of the sun. It will be the first total eclipse to be seen in the...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 21, 2016 | Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Sighting, Jacob Goldenberg
by Darla Wilkinson (darla@drewboyd-com-staging.lvue8dy8-liquidwebsites.com) For many people this week’s Thanksgiving celebration will mean endless shopping, prepping, and cooking in anticipation of the big feast. The hours of slaving away in the kitchen usually seem...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 4, 2016 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting, Pinterest, Structured Creativity
The SIT method is great for creating exciting new products and services. Now I want to show you how to 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...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 14, 2016 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg
Today is Valentine’s Day, and to celebrate, here are ten creative ways to show how much you love your partner. I generated some of these for a TV interview yesterday on FOX19-WXIX morning news is Cincinnati. They wanted me to share how to use S.I.T. to be more...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 26, 2015 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting
When using the Attribute Dependency technique, you’ll reach a point in the function follows form process where it’s time to make adaptations to your concept. That’s where you try to improve the concept and put more definition around it. One way to make adaptations...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 17, 2015 | Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation
Here’s a nice example of the Attribute Dependency Technique, one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It’s a great tool to make products and services that are “smart.” They adjust and learn, then adapt...
