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Innovation Games

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Innovation Games® are on real-time focused, collaborative games to engage customers and stakeholders. Playing the games is like generating feedback about a product or service. With Innovation Games you accurately predict what your customers want, need, and will pay for.

Description of Innovation Games

Innovation Games is a facilitation format I use frequently. Innovation Games® are on real-time focused, collaborative games to engage customers and stakeholders. Playing the games is like generating feedback about a product or service. With Innovation Games you accurately predict what your customers want, need, and will pay for.

The successful operation of an innovation game relies on collaborative play among the participants and a set of observers drawn from disparate functional groups within an Organisation.

Rules of Innovation Games

Innovation games can be played online on the innovation games platform.

 

 

When to use Innovation Games

  • Portfolio management.
  • Requirements management.
  • Innovative thinking.
  • Prioritisation.
  • Brainstorming.
  • Cross-functional collaboration.

Facilitator Role

Innovation games are played in workshops directed by a facilitator who:

  • explains the game(s) to be played;
  • controls the pacing and tempo of each game;
  • monitors participation levels; and,
  • manages the time of the overall game-play event.

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