by Drew Boyd | Apr 29, 2013 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg, Kickstarter
Systematic Inventive Thinking is not only for inventing new products and services. You can apply it to a variety of functions and processes. SIT is based on the idea that mankind has used distinct patterns when creating new solutions or innovations. These patterns are...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 15, 2013 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The University of Cincinnati announced it will launch its first Massive Open Online Course (called MOOC) next fall. It will be the first MOOC to teach Systematic Inventive Thinking (S.I.T.), an innovation method based on templates. MOOCs are unique because they allow...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 8, 2013 | Advertising Tools, Creativity Tools, Ideation
The airline, Samoa Air, sparked outrage with a new pricing policy of charging passengers based on how much they weigh. Chris Langton, the airline’s CEO explained its controversial decision: “People have always traveled on the basis of their seat but as...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 18, 2013 | Advertising Tools, Consultants, Culture of Innovation, Evaluation Ideas
The Unification Tool is a tricky but effective advertising tool. Unification recruits an existing resource and forces it to carry the advertising message. That resource can come from within the medium itself or within the environment of the medium. In other words, the...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 11, 2013 | Advertising Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter
Where does your marketing department fit when it comes to innovation? In their article1, “Improving Marketing’s Contribution to New Product Development,” these author’s offer a dismal view: “The prevailing view in most companies is that...
