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 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 25, 2013 | Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Pinterest, The Economist
In June, Jacob Goldenberg and I released our new book, Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results. It has since been featured on the front page of Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications and media outlets. Recently, we each did...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 2, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation
The Task Unification Technique is one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking. It is defined as "assiging an additional task to an existing resource." It is such a powerful technique because it often leads to Closed World...
