by Drew Boyd | Nov 16, 2017 | Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Method
The football season is into full swing. And, no doubt, countless beer drinkers experience the ever so frustrating tension of keeping a clear line of sight for that key play of the game without missing a gulp of their favorite brew. The engineers of the TV Beer Mug saw...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 23, 2017 | Google, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Method
Few activities are more iconic to American football than the huddle. Bill Pennington, in his New York Times article, “Ready, Set, Gone! The N.F.L.’s Disappearing Huddle” thoughtfully fills out the history, the heritage, and the slow disappearance of this classic...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 3, 2017 | Creativity Tools, Help, Ideation
The United States Postal Service has just released a “first-of-its-kind” stamp that changes appearance when you touch it. What has inspired this small nugget of innovation? The August 21 total eclipse of the sun. It will be the first total eclipse to be seen in the...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 9, 2017 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Ideation, Pinterest
The rush to put new technology in the home is heating up like never before. Challengersinclude Amazon (Echo), Google (Home), and soon we’ll have Apple’s Siri device. Microsoft can’t be far behind. Now here’s a completely different take on home...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 21, 2016 | Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Sighting, Jacob Goldenberg
by Darla Wilkinson (darla@drewboyd-com-staging.lvue8dy8-liquidwebsites.com) For many people this week’s Thanksgiving celebration will mean endless shopping, prepping, and cooking in anticipation of the big feast. The hours of slaving away in the kitchen usually seem...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 21, 2016 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation
I love umbrellas and the many versions that demonstrate the five patterns of Systematic Inventive Thinking. Here’s a new one that demonstrates the Task Unification pattern. Task Unification is defined as: assigning an additional task to an existing resource....
