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 [...]
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 →Game Spotlight: Transforming Speed Boat
Game Spotlight: Transforming Speed Boat The metaphor is often one of the most powerful drivers behind a successful visual collaboration game, and we’re always excited to see the innovative ways the Innovation Games community are adapting the games and game metaphors to meet their needs. Here’s a collection of blog posts on how Speed Boat, [...]
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 →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 [...]
Continue Reading →Your Next Move! January 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 Reed Elsevier’s global use of Innovation Games, having recently signed up for an enterprise license. Luke blogs about our the game [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →New Online Video Tutorial: The Project Organizer
You know how it is–you work and work to produce a great product, and you get people excited about it, and you and only later realize that you’ve kind of forgotten to explain somewhere on the website exactly how everything works. Yeah. Sorry about that. Consider this video, then, the first of many [...]
Continue Reading →Innovation (Games!) Everywhere: Innovation Games® takes Agile 2010 by Storm
It has been a week since Agile 2010 and this post feels long overdue. Yet, I’m finding that spending a week catching up on work, including a special project with Lowell Lindstrom to conduct an Agile 2010 conference retrospective using Innovation Games®, has given me a rare chance for a sharper perspective on the conference. [...]
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