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...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 29, 2013 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, Kickstarter
Systematic Inventive Thinking is not only for inventing new products and services. You can apply it to a variety of functions and processes. SIT is based on the idea that mankind has used distinct patterns when creating new solutions or innovations. These patterns are...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 11, 2013 | Advertising Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter
Where does your marketing department fit when it comes to innovation? In their article1, “Improving Marketing’s Contribution to New Product Development,” these author’s offer a dismal view: “The prevailing view in most companies is that...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 4, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Kickstarter, Subtraction
Dave Lavinsky is a serial entrepreneur who built his own company from the ground up. His book, Start at the End, was a #1 Bestseller on Amazon just one week after it was released. The goal of the book is to learn how to work fewer hours and be efficient when working...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 25, 2013 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Kickstarter
Can you innovate too much? After all, new ideas fuel organic growth. One would think an organization would be happy to have as many ideas as possible. But not always. Here are scenarios where over-innovating might be considered too much of a good thing. 1. When you...
