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 | Mar 2, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond
I want to be among the first to congratulate Rowan Gibson for his newest book, The 4 Lenses of Innovation, launching today. Here is a brief description (from Amazon): Ever wondered where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 15, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Economist, The Wheel
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 13, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method
Listen to the Entrepreneur’s Library: Episode 5 – “Inside The Box” by Drew Boyd (17 minutes): The EL Podcast Episode 5 Q: Will you take just a moment to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you personally? A: I’m a professor at the...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 2, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation
A college diploma is one key to starting your career engine, but learning to be more creative could help turbo-charge it. Just like college coursework, creativity can be learned—you don’t have to be born with these skills. Focusing on them is definitely worthwhile:...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 10, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Wheel
“As usual, for these co-written things, John often had just the first verse, which was always enough: it was the direction, it was the signpost and it was the inspiration for the whole song. I hate the word but it was the template.” – Paul McCartney...
