by Drew Boyd | Apr 6, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting
One way you can use the Task Unification Technique is to make an internal component take on the function of an external component in a Closed World. In effect, the internal component “steals” the external component’s function. Five universities in the United Kingdom...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 23, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond
Training programs, by design, are meant to provoke and cause changes. Changes can be in the skills, attitudes, behaviors, or knowledge of the participants. For leadership training programs, the ability to “think differently” seems to be at the top of many...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 23, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovative Marketing, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
My seventh-grade son asked me to volunteer at his school to teach something nonacademic and fun, like how to rollerblade, bake cookies, and so on. I called the school and asked if I could teach a course called “How to Be an Inventor.” I had taught Systematic Inventive...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 20, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters
The only thing worse than having too many emails is getting very long ones. When I open an email and see a long-winded message followed by a chain of other emails that have to be read as well, I dread it. After all, brevity is a virtue, and I value those emails that...
by Drew Boyd | Jun 30, 2014 | Consultants, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation
The famous inventor, Thomas Edison, lived in a beautiful home. But something was unusual about the gate that led into his house. His visitors had to push the gate very hard to open it, and then again very hard to close it. It seemed odd that such a successful inventor...
