by Drew Boyd | Jan 21, 2013 | Emergent Customer, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Sighting, Kickstarter, Pinterest
Google, Apple, Facebook, Samsung, and Amazon are in a mad scramble to enter new territory and cover gaps in their strategies. The one that gets ahead and stays ahead will earn bragging rights in what may be the most significant business battle of all time....
by Drew Boyd | Dec 27, 2012 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Jared Diamond
Giving your employees a voice in matters boosts their creativity. New research shows that, over time, procedural fairness (giving people the opportunity to express their views) has a positive maintaining effect on creativity whereas stifling their views decreases...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 21, 2012 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation
This month marks the five year anniversary for Innovation in Practice, and I want to thank my readers and supporters who follow it. Blogging is rewarding, but challenging. Most bloggers quit within two years for a variety of reasons: lack of motivation, lack of...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 10, 2012 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Jared Diamond
New research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that having our ideas rejected tends to boost our creativity output. Sharon Kim and her colleagues found that when most of us experience rejection, it can actually enhance our creativity, depending on how we respond...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 26, 2012 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Ideation, Innovation Sighting
The Attribute Dependency Technique tends to produce innovations that are smart. They seemingly know when to adjust or change in response to a change in something else. It is one of five techniques of the SIT innovation method, and it accounts for a majority of new...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 19, 2012 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Jared Diamond
Asking for help may be the most powerful yet underutilized resource available for innovators. Researchers Francis Flynn and Vanessa Bohns found that people grossly underestimate the rate that others are willing to help when asked. As a result, we more often fail to...
