Inno vati on G am
Innovation Games Michael Tarnowski Plays-InBusiness.com www.innovationgames.com Innovation Games ‒ The Seriously Fun Way to Do Work! Innovation Games: a set of originally market research oriented, facilitated and directed games, developed by Luke Hohmann. 13 core games at the beginning; now more than 20 games. Free account to play online: http://innovationgames.com/resources/instant-play-games/ www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Gamestorming ‒ Another Playful Way to Do Work! Gamestorming: A similar approach, initiated by Sunny Brown, David Gray. More games ― collection of “traditional games”, and not limited to a certain business field. Recently, Luke Hohmann (Innovation Games) and Gamestorming started a co-operation aka “Community Games”. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Games 1/2 Games involve a high level of emotion. Emotions help us to Focus Remember Decide Perform Learn TED Video: Stuart Brown: Why Playing is vital? http://plays-in-business.com/2011/09/warum-spielen-so-wichtig-ist www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Games 2/2 Games involves people have structure and goals operates more like a real-world system results are unpredictable small changes in variables generate dramatic differences in the result. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Business Process Result of a well-designed and wellexecuted business process are standard, repeatable, scalable results. chain of cause and effect, leading to a predictable result www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com World is a Complex System... ...made up of many complex systems, all of them interacting with each other in complex, dynamic and unpredictable ways. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Business Process vs. Creative Process (Game) Business Process Same result every time Framework for Predictability Game Different result every time Framework for Possibility and Creativity www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Games *) 1/3 *) Innovation Games, Agiles Games, LEGO Serious Play Agreement Games are alternatives to standard business meetings. New Ideas Games are structured activities. A facilitator leads a group towards some goal by way of a game, that provides scope for thinking freely, even playfully. Unraveling complexity Problem Solving Games require a few props such as sticky notes, poster paper, markers, random pictures from magazines, or other thought provoking objects ― “Fluffy Stuff”. Deep Understanding www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Planning Innovation Games ‒ The Seriously Fun Way to Do Work! Innovation Games: Focussed on real-time collaborative games to engage customers and stakeholders to reveal what really matters to them and to get breakthrough ideas. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Innovation Games ‒ The Seriously Fun Way to Do Work! Ways of customer feedback about a product or service prioritising issues, features, meanings, options, possibilities, ...etc. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Innovation Games ‒ The Seriously Fun Way to Do Work! Serious games to solve a wide range of product strategy and management issues across the whole market lifecycle. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Innovation Games ‒ Fields of Application Not only applicable for market research and product design, but also for Portfolio management, Requirements management, Project management ..... ...any number of tasks of Innovative Thinking Brainstorming Collaboration / Team building ... www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Scenario: You have a bunch of smart people in a room www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Option One... …One Question leads to the other www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Option Two... …One dominates the meeting ― the dullest one most www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Option Three... …Chaos of Creativity www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Solve Scenario Problem by… …Gamestorming …Agile Games …Innovation Games www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Core Set of Innovation Games: Product Box Spider Web 13 Games Make My Day Speed Boat Buy a Feature 20/20 Vision The Apprentice Remember the Future Me and My Shadow Show and Tell www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Hot Tub Prune the Product Tree My Worst Nightmare 13 Innovation Games 1/5 Product Box: customers work individually or in small teams to create and sell their ideal product. Me and My Shadow: discover hidden needs by carefully observing what customers actually do with your products. Buy a Feature: customers work together to purchase their most desired features. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com 13 Innovation Games 2/5 Give Them a Hot Tub: customers provide feedback on outrageous features to establish what is truly essential. Remember the Future: understand your customers’ definition of success by seeing how they shape their future. (This game is related with Future Perfect from Agile Coaching) Spider Web: participants work individually or in small teams to create vivid pictures of how your products and services fit into their world. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com 13 Innovation Games 3/5 Start Your Day: participants collaboratively describe when, how, and where they use your product(s). Participants describe their daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly events related to their use of a product. Show and Tell: customers describe the most important artifacts produced by your system to you and other customers. The Apprentice: an engineer or product developer uses the product as an end-user. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com 13 Innovation Games 4/5 20/20 Vision: customers negotiate the relative importance of such things as product features, market requirements, and product benefits. Prune the Product Tree: customers work in small teams to shape the evolution of your products and services. Speed Boat: customers identify their biggest pain points with your products and services. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Innovation Games (Core) 5/5 My Worst Nightmare: Discover hidden and/or unconsidered worst-case scenarios to develop better understanding and planning. Participants imagine and draw a caricature of their “worst nightmare” related to the product or service that you’re researching. www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com + a Bunch of more Games aka „Community Games“ 1/2 Gamestorming, Agile Games Discover Cover Story Empathy Map SWOT Analysis Whole Product Think big to uncover your company’s potential Understand what your stakeholders want from the business Uncover how to attain your desired end state Differentiate your product Shape Impact/Effort Matrix Learning Matrix Find the most efficient way to reach your goal. Think of effective improvements for your iteration Free account to play online: http://innovationgames.com/resources/instant-playgames/ www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com + a Bunch of more Games aka „Community Games“ 2/2 Gamestorming, Agile Games Shape Bang for the Buck Collaboratively rank a project backlog based on estimated value and estimated cost How Now Wow Matrix Form original ideas to implement Act Plus/Delta Game Pros/Cons Game Actions for Retrospectives Circles and Soup Circles of Influence Collect constructive criticism to improve future events Organize your thoughts to make careful decisions Discover how you can improve an event for the future Improve your past projects Identify who can help you reach your goal www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Product Box www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Spider Web www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Start your Day www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Speed Boat www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Buy a Feature www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com 20/20 Vision www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Me and My Shadow www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Give Them a Hot Tub www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com The Apprentice www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Remember the Future www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Show and Tell www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Prune the Product Tree www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com My Worst Nightmare www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Further Reading Books Luke Hohmann: Innovation Games. Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play. Addison-Wesley, 2006 Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo: Gamestorming. O'Reilly, 2010. Web Links Innovation Games: www.innovationgames.com Gamestorming: http://www.gogamestorm.com/ Michael Tarnowski (Article) http://goo.gl/vS2Py http://tastycupcakes.org/ www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Graphics Acknowledgements http://www.ftd.de http://agilitrix.com www.globalmoxie.com/ http://www.picturesof.net www.phillip,martin.com http://media.tumblr.com www.innovationgames.com http://www.gogamestorm.com/ http://www.innovationmanagement.se DownOnEarth, ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/16173624@N03/4147638363/in/faves58564123@N05/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/5125476119_2cdf57722e.jpg Official Innovation Games Trained Facilitator course material (Luke Hohmann, Maarten Volders) www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Plays-In-Business.com Website: Twitter: Xing: LinkedIn: plays-in-business.com, [email protected] twitter.com/playsinbusiness twitter.com/m_tarnowski xing.com/profile/Michael_Tarnowski linkedin.com/pub/michael-tarnowski/52/b62/a98 www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com Plays-In-Business.com Competencies: Trained Innovation Games Facilitator & Trained LEGO Serious Play Facilitator Certifed Scrum Master, Agile Coaching ISO 15504/Automotive SPiCE Prov. Assessor Requirements Engineering & Management consultancy Quality Assurance & Management consultancy Project Management & Configuration Management consultancy ISO 15504 Assessor Industrial Sectors: Automotive, Finance Logistics & Public Transport Defence , Aerospace Aviation & Air Traffic Management www.plays-in-business.com www.innovationgames.com
© Copyright 2024