The Multiplication Technique: Multiplying Your Problems Away

11 years ago

One very effective—but nonintuitive—way to use Multiplication is to multiply the most offending component in a problem and then change…

Innovation Sighting: Getting Your Competition to Promote You

11 years ago

How do you get your competitor to promote your value proposition? DHL did just that in the highly competitive package…

Have You Reached Your Creative Peak?

11 years ago

A new study by Philip Hans Franses of the Erasmus School of Economics in the Netherlands may suggest the point…

The Creativity Method of The Beatles

11 years ago

Fifty years ago on Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." A record…

Thinking Outside the Box: A Misguided Idea

11 years ago

Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early…

Making the Most of Your Resources With Task Unification

11 years ago

John Doyle certainly knows theater. Over his thirty-year career, he’s staged more than two hundred professional productions throughout the United…

The Partial Subtraction Technique: Betty Crocker’s Egg

11 years ago

In the 1950s, General Mills launched a line of cake mixes under the famous Betty Crocker brand. The cake mixes…

Systematic Innovation at the Consumer Electronics Show

11 years ago

One way to develop your expertise in SIT techniques is with pattern spotting. A key premise of SIT is that…

Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and CAPTCHA

11 years ago

You’ve experienced this dozens, if not hundreds, of times. Before being allowed to enter a website, you must type words…

The Top 10 Most Underappreciated Inventions

11 years ago

The end of the year is a popular time to publish lists of all sorts. A quick glance at CNN,…