by Drew Boyd | Oct 17, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Wheel
You may be surprised to find many of your products and services conform to the five innovation patterns of Systematic Inventive Thinking. If so, it means your employees are predisposed to use innovation patterns when developing new products. Like many innovators, they...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 19, 2011 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, Innovation Sighting, Kickstarter
Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry, must reinvent its business model. Otherwise, it’s the end of the road as many market analysts are predicting. Time is of the essence, so the management team needs to accelerate its search for new directions and pursue...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 5, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction
New research suggests that you are likely to be more creative when you imagine the problem is someone else’s instead of your own. Evan Polman and Kyle Emich describe their studies in their April 2011 article that support this conclusion. In one study, 262...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 29, 2011 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Technology, The Wheel
Software runs much of our lives. It runs everyday items like computers, automobiles, banking, telephones, and even kitchen appliances. Software will affect more of our daily routines in the future. According to market researcher DataMonitor, the global software market...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 22, 2011 | Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, The Wheel
SIT will hold its 7th Innovation Suite in Berlin, Germany from October 24-26, 2011. Participants will learn the tools and principles of the SIT method step-by-step. They will also learn how to implement an innovation program within their companies. It is an intensive...