San Jose Thanks Innovation Games
On Thursday, 23-June-2011, Luke Hohmann was a panelist at the City of San Jose, CA “Growing your Business with Social Media” conference. Luke was speaking about Knowsy and how small companies can use emerging social tools to… grow their business. Jeff Ruster, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the City of San Jose sent Luke this …
Transforming Enterprise Collaboration Through Expertise Communities
As organizations around the world have embraced Innovation Games® to address an array of needs within their own internal business, or, as consultants who use our techniques to provide games-based services to their clients’, we have constantly tried to generate the materials and documentation needed to support those efforts. And while we’re pleased that we’ve …
Using Product Box to Promote Small Business
Like the people who work at The Innovation Games® Company, many people in our global community are deeply motivated to improve civic engagement and their own, local, city, and national communities through the use of the games. One of the most important ways to improve communities is through locally owned, small business. Strong, locally owned …
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 …
A Realistic Vision For Citizen Engagement Through Games
In this third of three posts on the San Jose City Budget Games, I’ll present a vision of how serious games like Innovation Games® can motivate a new kind of civic engagement that has the potential to radically improve the quality of our governments and our lives. More importantly, instead of presenting some pie-in-the-sky vision …
Innovation Games Exchange – Problem Solving Game
Here is the cool new game we created with inspiration from Bruce Honig at the Innovation Games Exchange.
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 …
I’m a Believer
As some of you know, we periodically invite others to contribute to Luke’s blog. Today’s post comes from Brett McCallon, an Innovation Games trained facilitator who worked with us at the January 29th San Jose event. Sometimes, even when you already believe in something, it’s still possible to have a “Yes, Virginia, there is a …
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 …
