by Drew Boyd | Mar 1, 2010 | Google, Innovation Method, Kickstarter
Innovating is a form of competitive behavior. When we innovate, we compete with someone or something. We innovate to survive. We innovate for glory. We innovate to win. Leaders of organizations need to understand and leverage this competitive aspect of innovation to...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 15, 2010 | Ideation, Innovation Clusters
Here are two CPG products from this week's Best New Product Awards. I tried them at home and noticed a pattern. That pattern suggests a different way to use the Subtraction Template of the innovation method, S.I.T.. The question is whether...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 14, 2009 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method
I sincerely thank you for reading this blog. Readership continues to grow, and this motivates me to contribute new ideas to the innovation community. This month marks the two year point, and I wanted to share some thoughts about what happened this year and what to...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 28, 2009 | Creativity Tools, Technology, The Wheel
Ice hockey is big business. But it lags behind other professional sports – soccer, football, baseball, and basketball. As with all industries, the key to growth is innovation. Equipment manufacturers such as Reebok are taking this seriously with the creation of...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
People collaborate to innovate. But what about the other way around? Could a structured innovation approach be used to bring people closer together? In other words, collaboration becomes the endpoint and innovation becomes the means to that end? Collaboration is where...
