Thinkergy - The Innovation Company in Asia

22/10/2026

Where do breakthrough ideas come from? From looking closely at a challenge, or from looking far away from it?

Dr. D, Thinkergy’s founder, was selecting Ideation tools for his MBA-i course at Bangkok University. While reviewing the X-IDEA Toolbox, he remembered several Thinkergy innovation projects and suddenly saw a connection he had never written about.

Every creativity tool pushes a team’s thinking to a new starting point. His new article asks how far away that starting point really is.

He sorts the X-IDEA Toolbox by distance, from Attribute Listing and Lotus Blossom Matrix to Random Word and Reversal, and traces what that distance means for anyone who designs an Ideation session.

His challenge to facilitators: “Stop asking only, ‘Which tools should we use?’ Start asking, ‘How far should these tools take us?’”

The full article is on thinkergy.com:
�www.thinkergy.com/blog/how-far-should-your-creativity-tools-take-you

Related vs. unrelated stimuli: how far a creativity tool takes your thinking shapes how big your ideas get. Plan your next Ideation session with it.

01/10/2026

Dr. D, Thinkergy's founder, was mid-workout when a line from a Peter Thiel interview stopped him: a lot of tech founders are both insiders and outsiders.

His reaction was instant — that's me. That's exactly me.

His new piece follows the pattern across a lifetime: the village boy at the "academic high school" (gymnasium), the reserve officer who belonged to no camp, the banker who was really an entrepreneur. Too entrepreneurial for the academics. Too academic for the entrepreneurs.

A reflection on the hidden advantage — and the quiet burden — of standing in the doorway, looking both in and out.��https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/are-you-an-insider-outsider-lessons-from-a-life-lived-in-and-out

Ever felt part of a group yet never fully inside it? The insider-outsider's hidden advantage, quiet cost, and where one finally finds home.

25/09/2026

1,400 ideas in one morning. More than three dozen concepts by the afternoon. And six finalists pitched before the day was done.

Recently, Thinkergy had the pleasure of facilitating an intensive product innovation / NPD workshop for FES (Vietnam) Co., Ltd., the Vietnamese subsidiary of Food Empire Group, in collaboration with our partner agency Square 44.

The mission? Help FES Vietnam explore how it could expand its consumer offering into an exciting new opportunity space — without revealing too much here about where exactly that journey may lead.

We used Thinkergy’s award-winning X-IDEA innovation method to systematically move from insight to ideas, concepts, evaluation, and action.

But the creative work actually started well before the workshop. During the Xploration stage, an internal Thinkergy team conducted extensive market, consumer, trend, and opportunity research. More than 100 insights were identified, challenged, and ultimately synthesized into eight Mega Insights that helped us sharpen the final innovation challenge.

Then came the workshop. Two diverse FES Vietnam teams entered a high-energy morning of Ideation and generated close to 1,400 raw ideas using a variety of creative thinking approaches.

In the afternoon, quantity turned into quality. During Development, the teams harvested, combined, elaborated, and transformed promising ideas into more than three dozen fully developed Idea Concepts.

Then the mindset changed again. In Evaluation, every concept was critically examined: What is strong? What could go wrong? What could make it better? What remains interesting or uncertain? Importantly, ideas were not simply judged — they were enhanced before being elected.

Each team ultimately selected its three strongest concepts, which were pitched first to an evaluator panel during the final Action stage.

And the journey does not stop with the workshop. Together with Square 44, Thinkergy will continue supporting FES Vietnam's management team in taking selected concepts forward toward activation and implementation.

What Thinkergy's founder, Dr. D, and the team particularly enjoyed about this project was seeing the entire X-IDEA logic beautifully come alive once again:

Xplore deeply.
Ideate boldly.
Develop systematically.
Evaluate critically.
Act decisively.

Because breakthrough innovation rarely comes from the first idea that pops into someone's head.

It comes from creating many possibilities — and then systematically transforming the most promising ones into something worth pursuing.

A big thank you to the energetic FES Vietnam team and our partners at Square 44 for a highly creative and productive collaboration.

Great ideas are only the beginning. Wow innovation happens when you make them happen. 🚀

27/08/2026

Eight years ago, Thinkergy founder Dr. D wrote that the pendulum of globalization had begun to swing back, and that the sixth long wave of innovation would start around 2020. Both happened.

In his new article, he zooms out to one hundred and fifty years on a single page and overlays three long cycles: the innovation waves, the globalization pendulum, and the debt regime.
As he writes: "The wave shows you where opportunity is moving. The tide decides whether you can reach it."

The full article is on thinkergy.com: Three Clocks Every Creative Leader Should Watch

https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/the-sixth-wave-three-clocks-every-creative-leader-should-watch

Eight years ago, I wrote in this blog that the pendulum of globalization had begun to swing back — and that the sixth long wave of innovation would start around 2020. Both of those things happened. What I did not see clearly at the time was how much the first would shape the second.

06/08/2026

Open your laptop and ask an AI a question. The answer arrives in two seconds. Five years ago, the same answer would have demanded a hall full of servers and a small power plant's worth of electricity.

In his new article, Dr. D — Thinkergy's founder and chief ideator — argues that the Sixth Wave technologies are quietly converging on one design logic, and that it is not about creating more. It is about the value created per unit of resource invested.

He follows it across five faces, from AI chips to a microrobot steered through a human artery at four millimeters per second.
https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/less-but-better-the-hidden-design-logic-of-sixth-wave-technology

Open your laptop and ask an artificial intelligence a question. The answer arrives in two seconds. Five years ago, producing that same answer would have demanded a hall full of servers, a small power plant's worth of electricity, and a team of engineers to keep it all running. Today it fits in your....

09/07/2026

Thinkergy founder Dr. D spent decades as a competitive runner — more than 100,000 kilometers over his life, about two and a half times around the planet.

His new article starts there, then poses a stranger question: what if every step doubled the last? Thirty doubling steps, he shows, would carry a runner twenty-six times around the world — and past the moon.

That's the gap between adding and doubling — and, he argues, the gap most leaders miss as the Sixth Wave begins to multiply. Full blog article linked below:�https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/think-big-bigger-biggest-the-exponential-mind-of-the-creative-leader

For most of my life, I've been a runner — and for almost ten years, a seriously competitive one, racing middle and long distances on the track, on the road, and cross country. Add up every training run and every race, and I have covered a bit more than 100,000 kilometers on my own two feet. That i...

06/07/2026

When you and your competitors all bring the same AI, the same prompts and the same data to your innovation project, what kind of ideas do you all end up with?

That's the question Dr. D, Thinkergy's founder, took to the ISPIM innovation conference in Granada. His argument: for seventy years innovation management has been built around conscious, visible creativity — the very layer AI now performs faster and cheaper. And the layer AI is mastering is precisely the layer that produces sameness.

So where does human advantage live in the AI age? He makes the case in three acts on the Thinkergy blog. Read the full article on thinkergy.com: �https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/non-conscious-creativity-a-human-advantage-in-the-ai-age��

If you and your competitors all bring the same powerful AI tools to your innovation work — similar models, similar prompts, similar data — what kind of ideas will you all end up producing? And in a market where good ideas can now be generated faster and more cheaply than ever before, where will ...

11/06/2026

On Chinese New Year's Day in 2003, after four months of agonizing, Dr. D — Thinkergy's founder — had a Eureka moment in Bangkok that revealed what he was here to do. The realization didn't come from analysis. It came from incubation.
That company became Thinkergy.

In Part 2 of his new piece, Dr. D shares incubation — the master practice that produced both of the largest breakthroughs of his life — and three more expressive practices for inviting the deeper creative mind to deliver.

Part 2 is on thinkergy.com. Part 1, with the four receptive practices, is linked inside.

NEW in the Thinkergy Blog: 8 Ways to Invite a Breakthrough Idea (Part 2)
https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/8-ways-to-invite-a-breakthrough-idea-part-2

In Part 1 of this article two weeks ago, I described the iceberg of the creative mind — the conscious tip above the waterline, the vast subconscious below, and the superconscious sea the whole iceberg floats in. I shared the first four practices for accessing the deeper waters: lingering in the li...

28/05/2026

Salvador Dalí sat upright in a chair with a heavy key over an upside-down plate. The instant he drifted off, the key fell, the clang woke him — and he reached for the canvas with hypnagogic images still vivid.

Edison did something similar with a steel ball.

In his new blog article, Dr. D — Thinkergy's founder — names what these geniuses knew: the borderland between sleep and waking is one of four doorways into the subconscious creative mind. In fact, the article was born while staying longer in bed and lingering in lumberland 5 minutes longer.

Part 1 of this 2-article episode is on thinkergy.com. The four practices inside are receptive. Part 2 will turn expressive.

8 Ways to Invite a Breakthrough Idea (Part 1)
https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/8-ways-to-invite-a-breakthrough-idea-part-1

Where do your best ideas come from? Be honest — are they born at your desk, while you're consciously grinding away at a problem? Or do they arrive somewhere else entirely — in the shower, on a run, half-asleep, staring out a window?

14/05/2026

Some habits deserve to be kept. Others deserve to be broken. And most of us confuse the two — and pay the cost in quiet creative shrinkage.

In his new article, Dr. D — Thinkergy's founder — builds on James Clear's Atomic Habits while adding the complementary layer Clear's book, by its focus, leaves out: the discipline of habit-breaking.

Four diagnostic questions to sort your habit keepers from your habit breakers, plus a counterclockwise run in a Bangkok park that explains more than it should.

Full piece on: https://www.thinkergy.com/blog/beyond-atomic-habits-the-two-faces-of-habit-every-creative-leader-needs

Which of your daily habits are quietly making your life easier — and which are quietly making your life smaller? Are your routines the scaffolding that holds up your creative work, or the walls of the comfort zone that locks you in? And do you know which is which?