by Drew Boyd | Mar 30, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Consultants, Idea Generation
Some people regard the Spanish Civil War as a romantic war, one in which many idealistic men and women were prepared to sacrifice their lives for what they perceived as the social good. But as Hector, Prince of Troy, said, “There is nothing poetic in death.” In less...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 1, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Help, Idea Generation, Jared Diamond, The Wheel
Could creativity be as simple as following templates? In 1914 psychologist Wolfgang Köhler embarked on a series of studies about chimpanzees and their ability to solve problems. He documented the research in his book The Mentality of Apes. In one experiment, he took a...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 17, 2014 | Creativity Tools, Emergent Customer, Idea Generation, Ideation, Pinterest
Are online reviews going extinct? From Yelp to Amazon, reviews these days are good for just one thing: Seeing what others think of a product, service, or business. But are reviews really helpful? Could they be an outmoded one-size-fits-all solution in a world where a...
