Tag: engagement
Announcing our 2nd session on the #WisP14 program
We are very proud to announce our second facilitator, Victor Manrique, who will be facilitating the session "From games to gamification: The secret formula of engagement". Have a look at what Victor has in mind for us: ¿Do you think that designing a gamified experience can be turned into a game? Games are all about learning and every time we start a new game, it keeps on teaching...
Work = Play: Activating fun through work
I have received quite some questions and remarks about the theme for this year's Work = Play conference. The theme is activating fun through work and a lot of people ask me: "Shouldn't it be the other way around, Activating work through fun?" And this is exactly what we want to counter with this year's conference. I have seen quite a few organisations where they...
Budget Games Aalbeke – Resultaten deel 1
Tot onze spijt moeten wij meedelen dat we de volledige resultaten van de Budget Games Aalbeke, 20 Juni 2013, nog niet kunnen meedelen. De Kortrijkse verlofperiode speelt ons parten en pas na het zomerverlof zullen de resultaten aan de Aalbeekse burgers meegedeeld worden, gevolgd door een persvoorstelling. Dit zal dan ook samengaan met de vervolgstappen voor de gemeente Aalbeke aan de hand van de verkregen...
20 Juni: “Budget Games Kortrijk – Aalbeke”. Waar gaat het over?
We hebben al enkele Engels talige artikels neergepend rond de Budget Games te Kortrijk – Aalbeke en op aanvraag van enkele mensen geven we jullie ook graag verdere informatie in het Nederlands. Budget Games historiek Weinigen onder ons zijn vertrouwd met “Budget Games” zoals het is ontworpen door Luke Hohmann (founder Innovation Games®) voor burger participatie in San José. Hun eerste editie was terug in...
Prioritize with your stakeholders – Innovation Games® Buy a Feature
Back in the old days, I took up the role of a Agile Product Owner within a Healthcare environment and soon discovered that “responsible for setting priorities”, as it is announced in Agile literature, does not mean that doing it by yourself is the right approach. Not surprisingly, we see and hear about similar settings in other organizations: Product Owners or Project Managers that are...
Benefits of playing games at work.
Why play games at work? We get this question a lot of times when we guide entrepreneurs, small and large enterprise organizations. Or a plain remark: “Pfff, playing games?! That’s not work!”. So what is the answer? Why would we like to use games to do serious work? We encounter a lot of organizations that struggle to keep people motivated and engaged in their change projects,...