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- Category: Academic Focus
- Academic Focus: Columbia Business School on Marketing and Innovation
- Academic Focus: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for S.I.T.
- Academic Focus: Universidad Deusto – Master in Business Innovation
- Academic Focus: Innovation Clubs
- Academic Focus: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Academic Focus: John Hauser and the MIT Team
- Academic Focus: University of Queensland’s TIMC
- Academic Focus: Drexel University’s MS in Creativity and Innovation
- Academic Focus: The Rotman Business Design Challenge
- Academic Focus: University of Pavia
- Academic Focus: The Live Well Collaborative
- Academic Focus: Aalto University
- Academic Focus: City University London
- Academic Focus: College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
- Academic Focus: The Jerusalem Business School
- Academic Focus: University of Michigan
- Academic Focus: Harvard Business School
- Academic Focus: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- Category: Advertising Tools
- Segmentation is Killing Your Brand: Five Reasons To Find Your Unicorn Customer
- Creating New “Benefit Delivery Vehicles”
- Great Innovators Focus More on Post-Purchase than Pre-Purchase
- Innovating Through Partnerships
- Marketing Innovation: Chicken and the Absurd Alternative Tool
- Your Loyal Customers Love Innovation. Give It to Them
- What Consumers Must Learn to Adopt New Innovations
- The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report
- Marketing Innovation: The Inversion Technique and How Bad Things Happen
- Marketing Innovation: The Unification Technique in Outdoor Advertising
- Marketing Innovation: The Subtraction Tool in Saint Gobain Commercials
- Innovation Sighting: The Attribute Dependency Technique in Pricing
- Marketing Innovation: Avocados and the Unification Tool
- Marketing’s Seat at the Innovation Table
- Marketing Innovation: The Metaphor Tool Using the Division Pattern
- Adding Value to Your Marketing Efforts
- The LAB: Innovating Social Media Apps with SIT (August 2012)
- Innovation in the Mobile World
- Marketing Innovation: The Extreme Consequence Tool
- Marketing Innovation: The Unification Tool on a Grand Scale
- The Patterns in Super Bowl Commercials
- Marketing Innovation: Pants on Fire and the Metaphor Tool
- The Voice of the Brand
- Marketing Innovation: Sharks to the Extreme
- Innovation and Brand Coherence
- Marketing Innovation: Red Tape and The Inversion Tool
- Category: Attribute Dependency
- Moms Who Dominate the Closed World Principle
- Innovation Sighting: LG’s New Smart Vacuum Doubles as a Home Security System
- Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and the Oombrella
- 10 Valentine’s Day Surprises Created With S.I.T.
- Structural Fixedness: A Barrier to Creativity
- Innovative Thinking to Control Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Thinking Creatively: How Deadlines Encourage Inside-the-Box Ideas
- Innovation Sighting: Buttons That Lie and the Subtraction Technique
- Innovation Sighting: The Cashless ATM Machine
- Innovation Sighting: Tales of Things
- Contradictions: A Pathway to Creativity
- Innovation Training: The Leadership Elixer
- Innovation Sighting: Kitchen Ovens Using S.I.T.
- Thinking Outside the Box: A Misguided Idea
- Innovation and Design Thinking: Week One Final Thoughts
- Inside the Box: How to Use the Innovate! App
- Innovation Sighting: Task Unification in a Parking Lot
- Embrace the Shake: The Power of Limitations
- Strategy+Business: Thinking Inside the Box
- The Marker on the Board (Jacob’s Story)
- Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results
- Innovating the Weakest Link
- Innovation and the Base Rate
- Innovation Sighting: Nissan’s Intelligent Car Horn
- What’s in a Name
- The LAB: Innovating a Museum with S.I.T. (June 2012)
- The LAB: Innovating the PC and Printer…Together (March 2012)
- Innovation Sighting: The Great Sunflower Project
- Marketing Innovation: The Metaphor Tool
- Category: Consultants
- The SIT Patterns in Thanksgiving Cooking Gadgets
- Using Systematic Innovation on Digital Assets
- Innovation Sighting: Coca Cola’s Green Billboard
- Innovation That Shapes Who We Are
- Which SIT Technique Should I Use?
- Innovation Sighting: Task Unification in Kitchenware
- Innovation Through Task Unification
- Creating New Opportunities in the Digital Space
- Think Inside the Umbrella: The Five Techniques of S.I.T.
- Innovation Sighting: Task Unification Saves Lives and Money
- Now, Twitter Must Grow
- Square Roots: Inside the Box at Southwest Airlines
- Innovating in Human Resources
- The LAB: Innovating a Membership Club with S.I.T. (April 2012)
- The LAB: Innovating Twitter with S.I.T. (February 2012)
- The Remaking of Blackberry
- The LAB: Innovating Software Applications with S.I.T. (August 2011)
- The LAB: Innovating a Corporate Training Program (July 2011)
- The LAB: Innovating Pharmaceuticals with S.I.T. (June 2011)
- Innovation Sighting: Street Art Without the Paint
- The LAB: Innovating Cosmetics with S.I.T. (April 2011)
- Business Model Innovation
- The LAB: Innovating Inflight Services with S.I.T. (February 2011)
- Crowdsourcing and the Task Unification Tool
- The LAB: Innovating the Blackberry with S.I.T. (November 2010)
- The LAB: Innovating Retail Selling with Task Unification (September 2010)
- Innovation Sighting: Task Unification with Gifts
- The LAB: Innovating the Lego with S.I.T. (June 2010)
- The LAB: Innovating Water Access in Developing Countries (May 2010)
- Innovation Sighting: Double Down – Two Innovation Templates in One Bite
- The LAB: Innovating the Wedding Invitation with S.I.T. (April 2010)
- The LAB: Innovating Shredded Wheat with S.I.T. (July 2009)
- The LAB: Innovating a Credit Card with S.I.T. (June 2009)
- The LAB: Innovating a Garage Door Opener (March 2009)
- The LAB: Innovating The Kindle with Task Unification (January 2009)
- Category: Creative Valentines Day
- Purdue University Students Dominate Using SIT
- Why Apple Will Maintain Its Innovation Momentum
- Innovation Metrics: How to Stay on Track
- Got a Great Idea? Don’t Take Credit For It
- An Innovative Mindset: The Foundation for Your Innovative Thinking
- Innovation Sighting: Adjustable Airline Seats
- Innovate to Reduce Your Customer’s Risk
- Entrepreneurship Education Forum Webinar Series
- Philips Selects Revolutionary Voice Recognition Software from VoiceItt as Winner of Annual Innovation Fellows Competition
- Innovation Sighting: Subtraction in Commercial Aircraft Cabins
- Innovation and Design Thinking: Getting Your Program Started
- Innovation and Design Thinking: The Role of Leadership
- Innovation and Design Thinking: Building Innovation Capabilities
- Innovation and Design Thinking: Picking the Best Ideas
- Innovation and Design Thinking: The Challenges Ahead
- Innovation and Design Thinking: The Best Practices of Teams
- Massive Open Online Course: Innovation and Design Thinking
- Innovation Sighting: Apple’s Smart Shoe
- Innovation Resolution
- The LAB: Innovating the Treadmill with S.I.T. (May 2011)
- Feature Creep
- The Voice of Serendipity
- Category: Creativity Method
- Category: Creativity Tools
- Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency and The Total Eclipse of the Sun
- The Three Faces of Attribute Dependency
- Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Smart Apps
- Systematic Innovation at the Consumer Electronics Show
- Inside the Box: Applying Attribute Dependency to Pinterest
- Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Signage
- Let Me Speak!
- Innovation Sighting: Music That Morphs Using Attribute Dependency
- The LAB: Innovating Pinterest with Attribute Dependency (September 2012)
- Innovation Sighting: Apple’s Use of Attribute Dependency in iPhones
- The LAB: Innovating Toilet Paper with Attribute Dependency (July 2012)
- Innovation Sighting: Clothing to Keep You Cooler
- Innovation Sighting: Toyota’s Mood-Detecting Car
- The LAB: Innovating the GPS with Attribute Dependency (January 2012)
- The LAB: Innovating the Light Switch (October 2011)
- Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in an Exercise Bike
- The LAB: Innovating Facebook with Attribute Dependency (March 2011)
- Innovation Sighting: New World Order with Attribute Dependency
- The LAB: Innovating the Hockey Stick with Attribute Dependency (September 2009)
- The Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen – Never Miss an Idea
- The LAB: Monetizing Twitter with Attribute Dependency (February 2009)
- The LAB: Innovating the iPhone with Attribute Dependency (September 2008)
- Category: Culture of Innovation
- Category: Design Thinking
- Innovation Sighting: The Division Technique in Vision Correcting Displays
- The Division Technique: Cutting Innovation Down to Size
- Innovation Sighting: The Division Template on Music
- Innovation Sighting: Innovating Political Elections with Division
- Innovation Sighting: The Division Template on a Cell Phone
- Category: Division
- Category: Emergent Customer
- Category: Evaluation Ideas
- Launching My Latest Book
- Introducing Switchers
- Solution-to-Problem Innovation
- Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption
- Want to Innovate? Make Sure You Have a Seat at the Table
- Outmaneuver: Out Think, Don’t OutSpend
- Are You an Innovator? Take the Quiz
- How and Why You Want to Strip Great Ideas of Their Identity
- Grow By Creating New Categories
- The Wheel: A Great Innovation?
- If You Can Think It, You May Want to Ignore It
- Great Innovators Embrace Resistance, Not Fight It
- Yes, There is Such a Thing as an Ugly Baby
- Innovation’s New World Order
- Master the Method: Innovation Suite #18
- Beware the Overconfident Innovator
- Innovating Out of Crisis
- The Second Direction of Innovation
- The 4 Lenses of Innovation
- Teaching Children the S.I.T. Method
- The Power of Patterns That Guide Our Thinking
- Innovation Sighting: Subtraction in Email
- Entrepreneur’s Library: Episode 5 – “Inside The Box” by Drew Boyd
- Be Fruitful and Multiply: The Multiplication Technique
- Mastering the SIT Innovation Method
- Graduates, Start Your Innovation Engines: 5 Tips to Being Creative in Any Job
- The Six Best Books on Creativity and Innovation
- The Creativity Method of The Beatles
- Innovation in Practice: Six Year Anniversary
- Can Blackberry Dig Themselves Out of the Hole?
- Some Fallacies of Innovation: Webinar October 30, 2013 at 10am Eastern
- Innovation Sighting: Bookless Public Library
- Bloomberg Business Week: Inside the Box
- Secrets of Inside the Box: Webinar August 12th
- Inside the Box: Webinar July 2nd
- We Dedicate This Book…
- Creativity Happens Inside the Box
- The Stereotypy Trap
- New Ideas Light Up the Brain
- Don’t Be Fooled When Assessing Creative Work
- Start at the End
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- The Fabulous Five: Loyalty Factor
- Innovation in Practice: Five Year Anniversary
- Rejection Breeds Creativity
- Will You Help Me?
- SIT Webinar: Business Model Innovation
- Innovation and Organizational Savviness
- How to Use Systematic Inventive Thinking for Cutting Costs and Increasing Productivity
- Mastering Innovation Through Action Learning
- Patterns That Predict Innovation Success
- Making it Sustainable: Innovation Suite No. 9
- The Innovation Measurement Trap
- What an Innovative Culture Looks Like
- Redeploying Your Core Competencies
- The Path of Most Resistance
- Are You More Innovative Than You Think?
- Innovation: Make It Someone Else’s Problem
- Innovation in Private Equity
- Innovation Gone Wild
- Targeting Your Innovation Efforts
- Innovation Tools – The Course
- Innovation for the Non-Profit Sector
- Innovation and Humor
- Drew Boyd on Innovation Management
- Innovation in Practice: Three Years and Counting!
- The Voice of the Product
- 2010 Outstanding Corporate Innovator
- Simulating Innovation
- Green Field Innovation
- Innovation Prosthetic
- Brand Man
- Kill Your Innovation Champion
- Voice of the Emergent Customer
- Innovation in Practice: Two Years!
- Design the Future of Mobile Communications
- Wikinnovation!
- M&A Innovation
- Innovation Diagnostic
- Innovation Roundtable
- Tempting Innovation
- Category: Google
- How to Take Advantage of Distractions for Greater Creativity
- Creativity for Charities: How to Apply the SIT Techniques to Be More Creative and Resourceful
- Avoid Cliches Like the Plague – How to Speak and Write More Creatively
- Why Some People See Creative Ideas More Clearly Than Others
- The Temptation of Creative Ideas: How We View Ideas Differently Depending on the Source
- The Multiplication Technique: A Simple Tool with Many Creative Surprises Inside
- Innovation Dream Teams: The Secret Formula to Drive Team Success
- Why People Resist Our Innovative Ideas and How To Overcome It
- How to Use the Closed World Principle of Creativity
- Task Unification – The Go-To Innovation Tool to Break Functional Fixedness
- How to Enhance Innovation with Learning and Development Training
- 3 Ways to Improve Team Innovation
- Innovation Sighting: The Subtraction Technique and the No-Huddle Offense
- More Than A Dream: Advanced Technology And Creating A Risk-Free Market
- The Myth of Serendipitous Innovation
- The Top 10 Most Underappreciated Inventions
- How Companies Incentivize Innovation
- Innovation Suite 2011 in Berlin
- Innovating to Compete
- Category: Help
- Category: Idea Generation
- Category: Ideation
- Category: Innovation Clusters
- Category: Innovation Method
- Register Now: Design Your Innovation Blueprint at Columbia Business School
- Prospective Innovation
- Research Priorities for Innovation
- Systematic Innovation Tools: The Course
- Innovation Suite 2009
- Innovation Adjacencies
- Applied Marketing Innovation
- Complementary Innovation
- Innovation Competency
- Young it Down
- Will it Fly?
- Category: Innovation Sighting
- Category: Innovative Marketing
- Category: Inside the Box Innovation
- Episode 103: Thinking Outside the Box – A Misguided Idea
- Episode 102: The Division Technique – Cut and Rearrange to See New Possibilities
- Episode 101: A Quick and Effective Technique for Expressing Yourself Creatively
- Episode 100: Which Technique is Best for Certain Situations
- Episode 099: Be More Curious To Be More Creative – New Research On This Important Link
- Episode 098: What Can We Learn From Doctors and Their Creative Approaches to Disease?
- Episode 097: Take Drew’s Final Exam on Creative Thinking
- Episode 096: Is Virtual Idea Generation Less Effective Than In-Person? It Depends on the Technique!
- Episode 095: Fusion! A Clever Little Tool to Boost Your Creative Output
- Episode 094: Three Words of Advice for College Graduates and Career Changers
- Episode 093: A Powerful New Web App to Generate Creative Ideas
- Episode 092: Why I Hate the Post-it Note as an Example of Creative Thinking
- Episode 091: Don’t Be Fooled When Assessing Creative Work
- Episode 090: College Graduates! Get a Head Start With These 5 Creativity Tips
- Episode 089: 5 Ways to Tackle Challenging Problems
- Episode 088: Think Inside the Skyscraper: Lessons From the World’s Tallest Building
- Episode 087: Think Inside the Airport – Pattern Spotting While You Travel
- Episode 086: Creativity Lessons From a Parking Garage
- Episode 085: The Path of Most Resistance to Creative Thinking
- Episode 084: Are You Creative? Let’s Find Out
- Episode 083: Can Computers Think More Creatively Than Humans?
- Episode 082: The Relaunch of Creativity Inside the Box
- Episode 081: Do Rooms Designed for Creativity Work?
- Episode 080: Creative Ideas From 2012: How Did They Turn Out?
- Episode 079: Is There a Magic Pill For Creative Thinking?
- Episode 078: Getting Corks Out of Wine Bottles Leads to Creative Breakthrough
- Episode 077: Outside Versus Inside the Box – Which Thinking Approach is Most Important to Your Success?
- Episode 076: Are You a Consumer of Creativity?
- Innovation Suite 2010 – New York City
- The Role of Business Schools in Innovation
- Category: Jacob Goldenberg
- Category: Jared Diamond
- Category: Kickstarter
- Category: Multiplication
- Category: Pinterest
- Category: Podcast
- Episode 075: Contradictions: A Pathway to Creative Thinking
- Episode 074: The Beatles Get Back to Basics With Structured Creativity
- Episode 073: Top Ten Most Underappreciated Creative Inventions
- Episode 072: Oh, To Be In Two Places At Once
- Episode 071: It’s About Time to Be More Creative
- Episode 070: Does Brainstorming Work? Compared to What?
- Episode 069: Holiday Creativity: The Patterns in Thanksgiving Dinner
- Episode 068: Imagine the Game of Football Gets Creative
- Episode 067: As One Thing Changes, Another Thing Changes – The Power of Adaptability
- Episode 066: Never Look Inside a Woman’s Purse – Unless You Want to be More Creative
- Episode 065: Is It Creative to Copy Others?
- Episode 064: Can You Learn Creativity? Check Out These Amazing Ideas from Students Using SIT
- Episode 063: Home, Home on the Range – Creative Lessons in Our National Parks
- Episode 062: The Creativity Crystal Ball – How to Improve the Quality of Your Ideas
- Episode 061: Mayochup – The Act of Creation in Food Flavors
- Episode 60: Elephants and Mice – Creative Lessons from Nature
- Episode 59: You’re More Creative Than You Think – If You Persist!
- Episode 58: Overcoming Your Fear of Creativity
- Episode 57: Creating Mind-Blowing Concepts for Toilet Paper with Attribute Dependency
- Episode 56: Think Inside the Umbrella – Four Thousand Years of Innovation
- Episode 055: Saving Bees with Structured Creativity – The Task Unification Technique in Action
- Episode 054: I have a great idea! Now what?
- Episode 053: My Apologies to the Wheel – Is it Creative?
- Episode 052: People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes
- Episode 051: One Year of Innovation Inside the Box
- Episode 050: The Results Are In: New Inventions from the Multiplication Challenge
- Episode 049: Googling Your Own Mind: How to Search for Ideas Within
- Episode 048: Fear Not: Some Practical Tips for Overcoming the Fear of Innovation
- Episode 047: Analog Transfer – A Creative Gemstone
- Episode 046: Now It’s Your Turn – Take the Innovation Challenge
- Episode 045: In Search of Bad Ideas
- Episode 044: The Most Creative Invention Ever: Put it to Work for You
- Episode 043: There Is No Such Thing as an Ugly Baby
- Episode 042: The Humor in Innovation
- Episode 041: Why You Need to Stop Adding Things to Your Life
- Episode 040: The Most Underutilized Resource in Creative Thinking
- Episode 039: No Time? No Problem. Put Clutter to Work for You to Be More Creative
- Episode 038: Boost Creative Thinking By Being Specific – Ten Tips to Generate Better Ideas
- Episode 037: Creativity for Charities
- Episode 036: Gender Role in Creative Thinking – Not What You Think!
- Episode 035: Rejection Breeds Creativity
- Episode 034: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Episode 033: Creativity? Make It Someone Else’s Problem
- Episode 032: Avoid Cliches Like the Plague – How to Speak and Write More Creatively
- Episode 031: Two New Apps to Help You Learn Creativity
- 014: Five Ways to Teach Your Children to be More Creative
- 012: The Myth of Post-It Notes and Other Serendipitous Inventions: Why Pure Chance is Not Your Creative Friend
- 011: The Subtraction Technique: The Creative Power of Taking Elements Away
- 010: The Multiplication Technique: A Simple Tool with Many Creative Surprises Inside
- 009: How to Create and Run an Innovation Pilot Program
- 008: Fixedness: Your Main Barrier to Creative Thinking
- 007: Process Innovation: Unlocking New Value in What You Do Everyday
- 006: Innovation Dream Teams: The Secret Formula to Drive Team Success
- 005: Why People Resist Your Innovative Ideas and How To Overcome It
- 004: The Closed World Principle of Creativity
- 002: Task Unification – The Go-To Innovation Tool to Break Functional Fixedness
- 001: A Path to More Creative Thinking
- Introducing the Innovation Inside the Box Podcast
- Category: Structured Creativity
- Category: Subtraction
- Category: Systematic Growth
- Category: Technology
- Category: The Economist
- Category: The Wheel
- Category: Uncategorized
- Are You Sitting on The Next Big Thing?
- New: Innovate! App Brings Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) to Your Computer and Tablet
- A Journey of Rediscovery: How Adidas Uses the Past to Innovate
- Why Super Bowl Commercials Are So Effective
- 15 Biggest Innovations in Health Tech
- Five Industries Ripe for Innovation
- Holiday Innovation: The SIT Patterns in Christmas Gifts
- New Course: Marketing Fundamentals on Lynda.com
- Anybody Can Dramatically Increase Their Number of Eureka Moments.
- Rebooting Your Innovation Effort
- Washington Speakers Bureau
- The LAB: Creating New Logistics Packaging with SIT (May 2012)
- Innovation Sighting: Yahoo’s e-Book Advertising
- The Innovation Tools Graduate Course
- The LAB: Innovation for Couch Potatoes (December 2011)
- The LAB: Innovating the Pricing Process (November 2011)
- Proto Labs Launches Cool Idea! Award to Support Tomorrow’s Innovators
- The LAB: Innovating the Book with S.I.T. (January 2011)
- Innovate to Collaborate
- How to Innovate!
- Innovation in Practice: One Year Later