by Drew Boyd | Apr 23, 2012 | Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation
Making innovation sustainable means: 1. learning how to innovate, 2. getting results from innovation workshops, and 3. building the internal support systems to keep it going. Join Idit Biton and Yoni Stern from SIT in New York City, June 18-20, 2012 for...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 7, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Wheel
The best innovations arise by following the path of most resistance, not least resistance. As Amnon Levav at SIT writes, “In nature, water cascading down a mountain follows the path of least resistance – the easiest route to arrive at its final...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 17, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Wheel
You may be surprised to find many of your products and services conform to the five innovation patterns of Systematic Inventive Thinking. If so, it means your employees are predisposed to use innovation patterns when developing new products. Like many innovators, they...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 5, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction
New research suggests that you are likely to be more creative when you imagine the problem is someone else’s instead of your own. Evan Polman and Kyle Emich describe their studies in their April 2011 article that support this conclusion. In one study, 262...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 22, 2011 | Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Wheel
SIT will hold its 7th Innovation Suite in Berlin, Germany from October 24-26, 2011. Participants will learn the tools and principles of the SIT method step-by-step. They will also learn how to implement an innovation program within their companies. It is an intensive...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 1, 2011 | Academic Focus, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Economist
The University of Queensland’s Technology and Innovation Management Centre (TIMC) is an international leader in research on technological innovation. The center was established in 1989 as a Centre of Excellence in technology management. Its goal is to be at the...
