Tag: innovation games

18 October 2017 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

I am Steven, and I am a game designer! (experience report)

“I am Steven, and I am a game designer!” This was how the Innovation Games® Game Design Masterclass started anyway; a hero technique to make people feel they can really pull this off. And what a day it proved to be! But first things first. Is it just a play, or is it a game…? Is it a serious game…? Is it a serious business...

27 July 2017 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Experience report: Starting to apply Innovation Games® Facilitation for successful meetings

After having followed the session Innovation Games for Successful Meetings, I didn’t really have the opportunity to start applying, until we had a gathering with our swimming club. In this article I’ll take you step-by-step through a full session start to finish. The Flow Monday evening 19:20. After a heavy day at work, a meeting was planned to discuss how we would organise our “new” swimming...

31 August 2016 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

The Winning Circle: The Making of

Elegant experiment In a previous article, I’ve talked about an elegant experiment from 1962 we’ve re-done. At the moment of writing this article, we’ve completed 2 dry runs: One with a small group of students, and one bigger group of agile coaches, managers and scrum masters. We got plenty of feedback, and improvement is on its way. This article is about how we used Luke...

5 May 2015 / Agile & Scrum

Budget Games –In Kortrijk nemen 150 kinderen dé beslissing over 30.000€!

Wij kunnen jullie met enige trots meedelen dat onze Innovation Games® training, oefensessies en eerdere Budget Games® voor de Kortrijkse deelgemeentes Aalbeke en Heule zijn vruchten afwerpt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnzA1qINjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0Mztc53XQ Tijdens de eerste Budget Games sessie voor Aalbeke had Co-Learning de leiding op zich genomen alsook de volledige productie, facilitatie en nazorg waarna Stad Kortrijk overtuigd was van de kracht van speltechnieken voor collaboratieve doeleinden. Dit heeft...

9 April 2014 / Agile & Scrum

Build an Innovation Game®

Announcing the next speaker for our WisP2014 conference. Jonathan Clark has a deep understanding of running customer-centric businesses having worked for more than 20 years in international publishing and e-business with Elsevier. Now as an independent advisor on strategy and innovation, he helps forward-thinking leaders to re-invent their businesses, products & processes. He brings energy and enthusiasm into everything he does. His particular skill is to...

12 February 2014 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

First gamestorming retreat in our own training room

In case I didn't talk to you before now: Happy new year. I hope 2014 may bring you much learning and collaboration. During our first gamestorming retreat of 2014 we experimented with several different gamestorming techniques: How-Now-Wow matrix A different version of Dot Voting to try to avoid the influencing (more about that later) Code of conduct Job or joy 20/20 vision (Innovation games®) The anti...