by Drew Boyd | Jun 9, 2017 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creative Valentines Day, Ideation, Pinterest
The rush to put new technology in the home is heating up like never before. Challengersinclude Amazon (Echo), Google (Home), and soon we’ll have Apple’s Siri device. Microsoft can’t be far behind. Now here’s a completely different take on home...
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 | Nov 17, 2014 | Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Ideation, Pinterest
Are online reviews going extinct? From Yelp to Amazon, reviews these days are good for just one thing: Seeing what others think of a product, service, or business. But are reviews really helpful? Could they be an outmoded one-size-fits-all solution in a world where a...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 9, 2014 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Kickstarter, Pinterest
The SIT method is great for creating exciting new products and services. But you can also 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 attributes of...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 13, 2014 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Sighting, Innovative Marketing, Multiplication, Pinterest
One way to develop your expertise in SIT techniques is with pattern spotting. A key premise of SIT is that for thousands of years, innovators have used patterns in their inventions, usually without even realizing it. Those patterns are now embedded into the products...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 7, 2013 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest
It’s official. Twitter is a publicly traded company, and it will face constant pressure to innovate and grow. Let’s look at how innovation methods can be applied to Twitter to find new opportunitues. We’ll apply the five techniques of Systematic...
