by Drew Boyd | Nov 7, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Wheel
The best innovations arise by following the path of most resistance, not least resistance. As Amnon Levav at SIT writes, “In nature, water cascading down a mountain follows the path of least resistance – the easiest route to arrive at its final...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 31, 2011 | Creativity Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Technology
How do you know which SIT tool to use on your product? That is one of the most common questions from my students and workshop participants. One way to decide is to analyze the current products in the category. You look for SIT patterns that tend to dominate how the...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 17, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Method, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Wheel
You may be surprised to find many of your products and services conform to the five innovation patterns of Systematic Inventive Thinking. If so, it means your employees are predisposed to use innovation patterns when developing new products. Like many innovators, they...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 5, 2011 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction
New research suggests that you are likely to be more creative when you imagine the problem is someone else’s instead of your own. Evan Polman and Kyle Emich describe their studies in their April 2011 article that support this conclusion. In one study, 262...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 29, 2011 | Consultants, Creativity Tools, Design Thinking, Innovation Clusters, Jacob Goldenberg, Pinterest, Technology, The Wheel
Software runs much of our lives. It runs everyday items like computers, automobiles, banking, telephones, and even kitchen appliances. Software will affect more of our daily routines in the future. According to market researcher DataMonitor, the global software market...
