by Drew Boyd | Jan 4, 2016 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Jared Diamond, Kickstarter, The Economist
Imagine your marketing team comes up with an idea for a great new product. You absolutely love it. But when you start shopping the idea around the building, you get some very strange looks from people. People are resisting the idea, and you and your team are getting...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 19, 2015 | Attribute Dependency, Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation
Imagine you’re driving down the highway, and you notice a flag waving in the distance. But something’s not right. The flag is upside down. You’d notice it right away because it’s not in its usual position that you have seen hundreds of times before. We all have this...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 17, 2015 | Creative Valentines Day, Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation
Here’s a nice example of the Attribute Dependency Technique, one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It’s a great tool to make products and services that are “smart.” They adjust and learn, then adapt...
by Drew Boyd | May 19, 2015 | Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Wheel
Innovation is the process of taking an idea and putting it into practice. Creativity, on the other hand, is what you do in your head to generate the idea, an idea that meets three criteria: an innovative idea must be new, useful, and surprising. New means that no one...
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...
