by Drew Boyd | May 6, 2015 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Jacob Goldenberg
SIT is a collection of five techniques and a set of principles to help generate quality ideas on demand. One of the challenges you can have is deciding which technique to use. So here are some rules of thumb to get you started. At the start of any project, I generally...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 20, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Clusters, Jared Diamond
Think about how often you push buttons during the normal course of a day, at home, in our car, and elsewhere – elevators, crosswalks, and so on. Did you ever stop to wonder how many of those buttons you push don’t actually work? It’s called a placebo...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 2, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Jared Diamond
I want to be among the first to congratulate Rowan Gibson for his newest book, The 4 Lenses of Innovation, launching today. Here is a brief description (from Amazon): Ever wondered where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 15, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Economist, The Wheel
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 8, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Google, Idea Generation, Innovation Sighting
Philips North America announced VoiceItt, developer of the voice recognition software TalkItt, as the grand prize winner of the second annual Philips Innovation Fellows competition, in partnership with global web-based crowd funding site Indiegogo, recognizing the...