by Drew Boyd | Sep 15, 2014 | Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Jared Diamond
Innovation is anything that is new, useful, and surprising. “Surprising” means that the idea makes you slap your forehead and say, “Gee, why didn’t I think of that?” Here’s a great example. “Researchers at the MIT Media...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 24, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Help, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond
Creativity is what you do in your head to generate an idea, while innovation is the process of putting it into practice. You need both to succeed, which may be why the number of new books on these topics seems to grow every year. Yet despite the popularity of this...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 3, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early 1970s, a psychologist named J. P. Guilford was one of the first academic researchers who dared to conduct a study of creativity. One of...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 28, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
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by Drew Boyd | May 27, 2013 | Google, Jared Diamond, Kickstarter, Subtraction
Ninety percent of companies do not ‘as of yet’ have a formal mechanism for incentivizing and rewarding innovation but believe “it’s something we should be doing better”. That is one of the many conclusions in SIT’s latest Insight Paper, How Companies Incentivize...
by Drew Boyd | May 14, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Jared Diamond, Kickstarter, The Wheel
Struggling retailer JC Penny hired former Apple executive Ron Johnson as the CEO to save the company. Seventeen months later, he was ousted in what many consider a colossal failure. Why? Not because he failed to take action, but rather because he tried taking the same...
