by Drew Boyd | Jul 6, 2015 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Jared Diamond
Do you remember a time when you were just about to buy something, but at the last minute, you stopped and said, “No, I don’t think I’ll buy this.” So what stopped you? It was most likely because you were worried about something. There was too much risk around the...
by Drew Boyd | May 19, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Wheel
Innovation is the process of taking an idea and putting it into practice. Creativity, on the other hand, is what you do in your head to generate the idea, an idea that meets three criteria: an innovative idea must be new, useful, and surprising. New means that no one...
by Drew Boyd | May 6, 2015 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
SIT is a collection of five techniques and a set of principles to help generate quality ideas on demand. One of the challenges you can have is deciding which technique to use. So here are some rules of thumb to get you started. At the start of any project, I generally...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 20, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Jared Diamond
Think about how often you push buttons during the normal course of a day, at home, in our car, and elsewhere – elevators, crosswalks, and so on. Did you ever stop to wonder how many of those buttons you push don’t actually work? It’s called a placebo...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 6, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting
One way you can use the Task Unification Technique is to make an internal component take on the function of an external component in a Closed World. In effect, the internal component “steals” the external component’s function. Five universities in the United Kingdom...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 30, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation
Some people regard the Spanish Civil War as a romantic war, one in which many idealistic men and women were prepared to sacrifice their lives for what they perceived as the social good. But as Hector, Prince of Troy, said, “There is nothing poetic in death.” In less...
