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 | Oct 7, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Structured Creativity
The new Innovate! Inside the Box app facilitates the use of the creativity method, Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It explains each of the five techniques (Subtraction, Division, Task Unification, Multiplication, and Attribute Dependency) and allows users to...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 16, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Ideation, Innovation Clusters
The Subtraction Technique is amazing because of its simplicity and power. It is one of five techniques that form the core of Systematic Inventive Thinking, a method of innovating new products and services. Here is a classic example of how it can completely reframe how...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2013 | Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Pinterest
Pinterest has joined the elite group of social apps along with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Google Plus. “Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard that lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.” How popular is it? It is...
