by Drew Boyd | Oct 7, 2013 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Structured Creativity
The new Innovate! Inside the Box app facilitates the use of the creativity method, Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It explains each of the five techniques (Subtraction, Division, Task Unification, Multiplication, and Attribute Dependency) and allows users to...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 30, 2013 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Pinterest, The Economist
The University of Cincinnati’s first Massive Open Online Course begins next week, October 7th. The course is free and open to all. You should take this course because 1. you can do it even while you are traveling, and 2. ALL the content is optional. Just surf...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 25, 2013 | Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Pinterest, The Economist
In June, Jacob Goldenberg and I released our new book, Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results. It has since been featured on the front page of Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications and media outlets. Recently, we each did...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2013 | Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Pinterest
Pinterest has joined the elite group of social apps along with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Google Plus. “Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard that lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.” How popular is it? It is...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 21, 2013 | Emergent Customer, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Sighting, Kickstarter, Pinterest
Google, Apple, Facebook, Samsung, and Amazon are in a mad scramble to enter new territory and cover gaps in their strategies. The one that gets ahead and stays ahead will earn bragging rights in what may be the most significant business battle of all time....
by Drew Boyd | Oct 8, 2012 | Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Jacob Goldenberg, Kickstarter, Pinterest
It might surprise you that a single innovation pattern, Multiplication, formed the premise of all photography. The cameras you use today evolved from Multiplication. The entire photography industry continues to benefit thanks to this powerful pattern. Multiplication...