T-01–T-05Systematic Inventive Thinking
5 Tools for Systematically Innovative Thinking
Innovation isn't a lucky break. These five thinking operations break an existing product down into its components and apply one fixed rule — subtract, split, multiply, merge, link. Enter your product once, generate all 5 tools.
Based on the Systematic Inventive Thinking method from "Inside the Box" by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg.
Proven against real innovation cases
Found both core elements of the real solution: drop the recording function, replace the speaker with headphones.
"Independent developers build apps for the official App Store" — nearly word-for-word Apple's real strategy.
Independently described how the trailing blade catches hair positioned by the leading blade — the patent's actual mechanism.
Your Case
Subtraction
You remove a core component of a product or service — something that previously seemed essential.
Division
You take a component and split it along a physical or functional line. Then you reorganize it back into the product.
Multiplication
Many innovative products take a component, copy it, and change the copy in an unexpected way.
Task Unification
A component is assigned an additional job it wasn't originally meant to do.
Attribute Dependency
A product shows a correlation between two product attributes, or between a product attribute and its environment. As one thing changes, another changes with it.
Your Innovation Sketch
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