2. 01 What are Innovation Games?
02 Why we need Innovation Games?
03 How and Who?
04 Q & A
3. − Research has shown that in Business change and Transformation efforts by Organizations:
− 70% of business transformation efforts fail.
− 71% of workers who are not engaged or actively disengaged are less likely to be
productive.
− Root cause is the lack of engagement and buy-in from employees about new ways of work.
− Gamification can help organizations make the workplace more engaging and productive.
(http://blogs.gartner.com/elise-olding/2012/11/14/engagificationof-the-enterprise-gamification-
and-employee-engagement/)
Why do we need to consider Gamification in
our workplace?
4. By 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000
organizations will use Gamification as the
primary mechanism to transform business
operations.
- Gartner’s Prediction(http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2211115)
5. − A set of facilitated and directed games
− Developed by Luke Hohmann (CEO & Founder - http://www.innovationgames.com/)
− 13 core games at the beginning; Now more than 20 games.
− Gamestorming: A similar approach, initiated by Sunni Brown,
David Gray.
− Recently, Luke Hohmann (Innovation Games) and Gamestorming
started a co-operation , aka “Community Games”.
What are Innovation Games ?
Luke
6. − Help in engaging customers and stakeholders
− Identify: What really matters to them
− Get breakthrough ideas , by ways of
− Customer feedback about a product or service
− Prioritizing issues, Features, Possibilities, ...etc.
− Serious games to solve a wide range of product strategy
and management issues
What are Innovation Games ?
8. − These games :
− Are Innovative and intriguing
− Bring Collaboration and Rational thinking
− Inspire teams to see more than what meets the eye.
(www.innovationgames.com )
Innovation Games – Ideas into Action
9. Innovation Games – Circle of Knowledge
(http://www.slideshare.net/ValtechGroup/valtech-agile-day-agile-innovation-games)
10. − Product Design
− Portfolio management,
− Requirements management,
− .....
...any number of tasks of
− Innovative Thinking
− Brainstorming
− Collaboration / Team building
In which areas, can we apply Innovation
Games ?
11. Core set of Innovation Games
Product Box Spider Web
Make My Day Speed Boat
Buy a Feature
20/20 Vision
Me and My
Shadow
Hot Tub
The Apprentice Remember the
Future
Show and Tell Prune the Product Tree My Worst Nightmare
12. − Easy and effective solutions to complex problems
− Better and Detailed insight into business
− Helps in making business process more effective
− Collaborative and collective decision making within the Organization
− More Engaged employees
− Team Motivation
− Making learning Fun
Benefits
14. − Players: Agile team(s)
− Can have multiple Groups of around 5 members each
− Duration : 30 minutes
− When to play
− Team formation, Project initiation
− Retrospections
− Goal:
− Discover hidden and/or unconsidered worst case scenarios
− Bubbles up hidden needs and fears
− Enables the team to arrive at working agreement
My Worst Nightmare
(www.innovationgames.com )
15. − We need to imagine and draw a caricature of our worst
nightmare related to product or service that we are
researching.
− Today, its "Effective Retrospection“ for this group.
− It could be a collection of characteristics or attributes.
− Present worst nightmare to all in the group.
My Worst Nightmare – Effective Retrospection
(www.innovationgames.com )