by Drew Boyd | Oct 13, 2008 | The Wheel
George Orwell died January 21, 1950 at the age of 46. He is considered one of the great all-time fiction writers with works like Animal House and Nineteen Eighty Four. What if he were alive today? What would he say, and what would he write about? What if he blogged?...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 28, 2008 | Creativity Tools, Technology, The Wheel
Here are ten innovations for the iPhone that I would love to see. I created these using the Attribute Dependency tool. It is the most powerful of the five tools of Systematic Inventive Thinking, but also the most difficult to learn. To use Attribute Dependency, we...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 10, 2008 | Innovation Method, Kickstarter, The Wheel
Companies are enamored with chasing “white space opportunities.” White space is the nickname for new, undiscovered growth segments. It spins the notion that opportunity lies just ahead of us. Telling colleagues you are working on white space opportunities...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 30, 2008 | The Wheel
For many companies, the catalog of products is the strongest statement of brand positioning a company can make. It is your arsenal of commercialization. So imagine you could peek into the future and see a copy of your company’s product catalog five years from...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 26, 2007 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond, Multiplication, The Wheel
The Marketing Science Institute has formed a new Innovation Roundtable to explore common issues and challenges in the world of corporate innovation. The roundtable representatives are from Johnson & Johnson, GE, P&G, Diageo, Eastman Kodak, AT&T, Kraft,...