San José Citizens Play Innovation Games to Prioritize 2012-2013 Budget Proposals
On January 21, 2012, more than 100 community leaders from San José, CA, played a specially designed version of Buy a Feature, dubbed Budget Games, to reveal their priorities for the City of San José’s 2012-2013 budget. This is the second year that the city of San José, CA, has worked with The Innovation Games® [...]
Continue Reading →San José Citizens Play Innovation Games to Reveal Budget Priorities (Video)
On January 21, more than 100 community leaders from San José, CA played a specially designed version of Buy a Feature, Budget Games, to reveal their priorities for the City of San Jose’s 2012-2013 Budget. This is the second year the city of San José, CA, has worked with The Innovation Games Company to bring [...]
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 →San José Budget Games 2012
On Saturday, January 21, 2012, The Innovation Games Company and the City of San José , CA, will host the second annual Budget Games event at City Hall in San José, CA . The specially-designed version of the Innovation Game Buy a Feature was first used in 2011 to help the Mayor’s office get actionable feedback from [...]
Continue Reading →THE INNOVATION GAMES® COMPANY ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH VERSIONONE AGILE MANAGEMENT TOOL
THE INNOVATION GAMES® COMPANY ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH VERSIONONE AGILE MANAGEMENT TOOL Solution gives VersionOne customers enhanced collaboration and prioritization capabilities. Mountain View, CA – Dec. 16, 2011. The Innovation Games® Company, the leading producer of online and in-person serious games for market research, today announced the integration of its revolutionary Software as a Service (SaaS) [...]
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 →LOWER PRICING & SIMPLIFIED SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS FOR INNOVATION GAMES® ONLINE
LOWER PRICING & SIMPLIFIED SUBSCRIPTION OFFERINGS FOR INNOVATION GAMES® ONLINE Now more cost-effective than ever to collaborate with customers and colleagues–worldwide. Mountain View, CA – Oct 27, 2011. The Innovation Games® Company has announced new pricing for its revolutionary Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Innovation Games® Online. The only online game platform for market [...]
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 [...]
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