by Drew Boyd | Jan 3, 2011 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The Live Well Collaborative at the University of Cincinnati is an academic-industry innovation incubator for regionally, nationally and internationally prominent firms. The focus of LWC is the aging population. Firms partner with UC to address product or service needs...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 20, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Wheel
A church needed a new bell ringer. When a man with no arms applied for the job, the doubting priest asked, “Can you ring the bell?” The applicant climbed the bell tower, took a running start, and plowed his face into the bell producing a beautiful tone. He...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 13, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method
Innovation Management is an online magazine offering best practice and inspiration to innovation management practitioners. It sources and provides articles in collaboration with experts in the field of innovation management from leading business schools, companies and...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 6, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Economist
Today marks the third anniversary of Innovation in Practice. I am happy to say I see no end in sight. Blogging is the ultimate truth serum: it helps you discover what you know, how you learn, and how you connect to a community of fellow bloggers. I use this blog to...
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 | Sep 6, 2010 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Wheel
Could the greatest innovation of all time be a method of innovation? Roger Smith proposed this in The Evolution of Innovation. Is such a method out there? The answer is yes. Suppose you want to come up with a new product idea. Where do you begin? What method would you...
