by Drew Boyd | Jan 12, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
As a teacher, it’s always rewarding to see my students create ideas that eventually make it into the marketplace. Here are some great innovations for the kitchen oven that a group of students created last year, January 2014. Later, we’ll compare these to...
by Erica Gage | Nov 24, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Sighting, Jacob Goldenberg
‘Tis the season for catalogs, and my favorite is Hammacher Schlemmer, America’s longest running catalog, “Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 166 Years.” I was curious to see if I could spot any of the five patterns of the...
by Erica Gage | Oct 27, 2014 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, The Wheel
Innovation is an essential ingredient to the growth and success of China’s economy. The use of methods such as Systematic Inventive Thinking will accelerate that growth. But where should China focus its innovation efforts? Professors George Yip and Bruce McKern...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 14, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Jacob Goldenberg
A common problem in photography is the occurrence of red-eye, like you see here. Redeye happens when the flash of a camera goes into the eyeball. It hits the back of your eye which has a lot of tiny blood vessels. The light picks up the red color from the blood in...
by Erica Gage | Apr 7, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg
Skyscrapers are amazing from any vantage point – near, far, or even inside. If you look closely, you’ll spot the patterns inherent in the techniques of Systematic Inventive Thinking. Take a look at these five examples. 1. MULTIPLICATION: Architect Bruce...
by Erica Gage | Mar 3, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting, Jacob Goldenberg, The Wheel
One very effective, but nonintuitive way to use Multiplication is to multiply the most offending component in a problem and then change it so that it solves the problem. Yes, you actually make more of the very thing you are trying to discard. The key is to duplicate...
