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 | Jul 4, 2016 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting, Pinterest, Structured Creativity
The SIT method is great for creating exciting new products and services. Now I want to show you how to apply these techniques to digital assets. For example, let’s apply the Attribute Dependency technique to a website. You start by listing the internal and external...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 26, 2015 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting
When using the Attribute Dependency technique, you’ll reach a point in the function follows form process where it’s time to make adaptations to your concept. That’s where you try to improve the concept and put more definition around it. One way to make adaptations...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 20, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Kickstarter, Subtraction
In Innovating Out of Crisis, How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) As Its Core Business Was Vanishing, published by Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, Shigetaka Komori, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation Chairman and CEO, recounts how he was inspired to lead...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 13, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Sighting
Who would use a cashless ATM? It seems like a ridiculous idea, because that’s the whole point of using an ATM – getting cash. That will all change with the RTM (Retail-Teller-Machine). It works just like an ATM. Instead of dispensing cash, the RTM prints a...
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...