Audacious Gaming
The January/February 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review caught my eye with a series of short articles on audacious ideas. Some of the ideas are really audacious, and challenge you to think differently about the world. Others strike me as pretty mundane. And others could go much further with a dose of Innovation Games®. And [...]
Continue Reading →Why Gov. Rick Scott Should Start Playing Innovation Games
Forbes has run several articles on the problems facing Rick Scott. The latest, in the Jan 2012 print edition of the magazine, points out that Florida is facing a massive $2 billion budget deficit. And while Forbes states that “Nobody knows for sure how to pull off the economic turnaround”, the reality is that any [...]
Continue Reading →The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma: Perseverance or Pivot?
The startup community loves to latch onto buzzwords and phrases, to the point where they become apparent badges of honor when you can somehow claim that you’re using them. Arguably the hottest of these buzzwords is “pivot”, which typically means making a significant change to your business model of product offering based on customer or [...]
Continue Reading →The ROI of Innovation Games
We’re often asked about the “ROI” of Innovation Games®, as in “What kind of ROI should I expect from playing games?”At times the question seems absurd, for reasons that I’ll explain later. Most of time, though,we’re quite sympathetic to those asking the question. Most of us see too many new products fail, experience painfully ineffective [...]
Continue Reading →(Em)Powering Techonomy Workers Through Innovation Games
The lead story in the Sept. 26, 2011 issue of Forbes is David Kirkpatrick’s Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution: Why Employees and Customers will be Calling the Shots. Despite some of the negative sensationalism that Mr. Kirkpatrick uses to introduce the topic, he got quite a lot right. Unfortunately, he left out the [...]
Continue Reading →The International Appeal of Visual Collaboration Games
We love our work, especially when it challenges us to think about Innovation Games® in new ways. This post was inspired by a two-day strategic planning meeting that we produced last month for the Adobe Localization team. The event was a notable success, and you can read an interview with three members of the Adobe [...]
Continue Reading →Serious Games for Strategic Planning
Who hasn’t shuddered when you get the email about required attendance at an all-day strategy meeting? In common parlance that translates to 8 hours trapped in a conference room with PowerPoint, coffee and catered lunches—if you’re lucky. Strategy meetings don’t have to be death by PowerPoint, though. They can be engaging, profitable and energizing—especially, if [...]
Continue Reading →Intellectual Ventures, Software Patents, NPR and Innovation Games
Today National Public Radio ran a story on software patents titled When Patents Attack. Featured prominently in this piece was Intellectual Ventures, a company that has amassed a significant patent portfolio.The article raises some very thought-provoking questions about software patents and whether or not these patents are realizing the original goals of the patent [...]
Continue Reading →Help Us Transform Government Through Innovation Games and IndieGoGo
This is both a very simple, and a very personal, post. It announces our IndieGoGo project to use Innovation Games® online to engage thousands to millions of ordinary citizens around the world in working together to identify and prioritize the best possible solutions to our challenging budget problems. Please donate $25 to our cause. When [...]
Continue Reading →Buy a Feature Games For Water.org, the Boy Scouts, and Compassion International
Water.org, the Boy Scouts of America and Compassion International are three of the many thousands of truly wonderful nonprofits and NGOs from around the world that are tackling some of the world’s toughest problems. And while The Innovation Games® Company hasn’t had the good fortune to work with these organizations, some my conversations over the [...]
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