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...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 15, 2013 | Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters
When you use Subtraction, you don’t always have to eliminate the component. There is also what we call “Partial Subtraction.” It is a valid technique as long as the product or service that remains delivers a new benefit. To deploy Partial Subtraction, you pick a...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 30, 2012 | Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Pinterest, Technology
It’s official. 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...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 27, 2012 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Technology
Twitter continues to evolve with some 220 million users tweeting collectively 250 million times a day. It is a vast social network that has become the world’s “listening post” for events happening everywhere. Major news organizations rely on Twitter...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 15, 2009 | Creativity Tools, Kickstarter, Technology, The Wheel
Venture capitalists could increase the value of their investments by applying a corporate innovation method to those investments. Take Twitter for example. It just received its third round of funding – $35 million. Yet it has no revenue, no business...