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 …
Your Next Move! April 2011
Welcome to latest issue of Your Next Move!, our monthly newsletter covering the latest news, events and announcements from the Innovation Games® community. This month in the Innovation Games® at Work section, we profile VersionOne’s adaption of Speed Boat and how it’s been used with VersionOne clients attempting Agile Transformation. Luke blogs about gamification and …
Gamification, Innovation Games and Seriously Fun Executives
Arguably the most amazing change I’ve experienced in the 10+ years that I’ve been playing serious games is the change in attitudes among senior executives regarding Innovation Games® and other serious games. A decade ago, we had to spend an extraordinary amount of time convincing quite skeptical senior executives that “serious games” could solve complex …
San Jose, CA Community Leaders Budget Games Results
On Jan 29th, 2011, history was made when a diverse and highly motivated group of community leaders and engaged citizens from the City of San Jose played a specially designed Innovation Game® to provide feedback regarding their budget priorities to the Mayor’s office. In what has the potential to become a template for igniting a …
IGO Tips & Tricks: How to Price Items for Buy a Feature
IGO Tips & Tricks: How to Price Items for Buy a Feature One of the essential activities when designing your Buy a Feature game is pricing the items within the game. The goal is to develop a pricing scheme that helps you gain insight into your customers true motivations. Here are some tips and techniques …
IGO Tips & Tricks: Editing Invitations to Online Games
It’s important to write a “good” email invitation letter for your online games — one that includes all the essential information needed for your players to access and play the game. Our default invitation letter includes tags that auto-populate the letter with game information like player name, planner name and the game link. However, most …
City of San Jose to use Innovation Games for budget prioritization
On January 29th, the Mayor of San José will host the fifth annual Neighborhood Association/Youth Commission Priority Setting Session at the City of San José city hall. A team of 30 Innovation Games trained facilitators will facilitate games based on Buy a Feature to help the city understand the preferences of community leaders regarding key budget initiatives. …
Engaging Citizens Through Games: San Jose, CA Budget Prioritization Games
Like many city, state and national governments, the City of San Jose, CA, is facing a significant 2011-2012 budget deficit. In this first of three posts on how Innovation Games® can be used in to engage citizens and improve democratic processes, I will outline the plans for a specially designed Buy a Feature game that …
Gamification: Badges and Points are Missing the Point!
The “Gamification” movement continues to gain speed. And while I appreciate some of the careful thinking and discussions, the entire movement is at risk of getting it more wrong than right. Quite frankly, badges and points are, well, missing the point. Gamification should not be based on simplistic, Pavlovian responses to stimulus. Click on a …
Innovation Games Improve Sales Support Allocation: Video and Whitepaper
We hope many of you have already read our whitepaper, entitled “Improve the Sales Support Allocation Process (And Have Fun Doing It)”, which was published recently. If not, we hope you will check it out–it presents an innovative solution to one of the most vexing problems in sales organizations: how to allocate sales support resources …
