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Innovation Sighting: Tales of Things

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...

Innovation Training: The Leadership Elixer

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...

Teaching Children the S.I.T. Method

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...

Innovation Sighting: Subtraction in Email

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...

Innovation Sighting: The Chairless Chair

by Erica Gage | Aug 25, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Sighting

It’s like a chair that isn’t there, but magically appears whenever you need it. It’s called the Chairless Chair and you wear it on your legs like an exoskeleton: when it’s not activated, you can walk normally or even run. And then, at the touch...
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