by Drew Boyd | Aug 8, 2016 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Jared Diamond, Kickstarter, Subtraction
A SIMPLE FORMULA AND SET OF TOOLS FOR FACING AND EMBRACING DISRUPTION AND RADICAL CHANGE Technology, globalization, economic shifts, geopolitical shocks, and, yes, management thought leaders over the past 30 years have set in motion a continuous onslaught of radical,...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 1, 2016 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Kickstarter, Subtraction
A clever way to find new growth is to change your market category or create a new one. When you create or change your category, you’re redefining the boundaries of your market space, and that opens your eyes to new targets of opportunity. Let’s look at how to do it....
by Drew Boyd | Nov 16, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Jared Diamond, Kickstarter, Subtraction
The shifting map of global innovation In the 2015 Global Innovation 1000 study, Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting group, provides new insights into the ways corporate innovation spending—which totaled $680 billion last year—has been changing in recent...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 2, 2015 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
By John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska One of the most common excuses we hear from folks who are reluctant to embrace innovative thinking is that they “are not creative” or not “right-brain thinkers.” We like to gently remind them that the...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 20, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Kickstarter, Subtraction
In Innovating Out of Crisis, How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) As Its Core Business Was Vanishing, published by Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, Shigetaka Komori, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation Chairman and CEO, recounts how he was inspired to lead...
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...
