by Drew Boyd | Mar 20, 2018 | Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The Columbia Business School Executive Education program is, once again, partnering with SIT to bring Design Your Innovation Blueprint: Leveraging Systematic Inventive Thinking. Registration is now open for the June 6-8, 2018 course. Design Your Innovation Blueprint...
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 | May 8, 2017 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Economist, Uncategorized
Recently, I was delighted to receive a message from my friend, Frank Grunwald, Visiting Lecturer at Purdue University, telling me of his plans to incorporate Systematic Inventive Thinking into his spring Industrial Design course. An expert industrial designer himself,...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 27, 2017 | Google, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond, Structured Creativity
By Carol Ozemhoya, Contributing Editor at Vector Some people worry about technology costing people jobs and taking over the world as has been portrayed in many major motion pictures, such as the “Matrix” series. But in reality, a lot of the advances in technology have...
by Drew Boyd | May 2, 2016 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Kickstarter
Look at any industry, in any market, and you’ll find the same strategy playing out everywhere. Companies compete with one another in a mindless race to the bottom, matching products and services feature for feature, competing primarily on price. This commoditizes...
