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 8, 2010 | Consultants, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Technology, The Wheel
Blackberry is taking a shellacking from iPhone and Android. It’s market share has declined 4% in four months. Why? The company drifted from a strategy built around its core competency and is frantically chasing its app-crazed competitors. Though Blackberry...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 1, 2010 | Help, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Innovative Marketing
What big innovation do you expect within 10 years? My crystal ball is no better than others. Rather than predict innovations, I predict what characteristics they will have and how they might be invented. 1. Mobility: Future products will incorporate some degree of...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 20, 2010 | Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
People can improve the quality, originality, and elegance of ideas by extensively forecasting the implication of those ideas during the generation phase. Researchers from The University of Oklahoma studied the effect of forecasting on idea evaluation and...
