Facilitation
We offer three types of facilitation:
- Understanding Customers using Innovation Games® for fast and actionable market research to build innovative products.
- Creative Problem Solving and team development using StrategicPlay® with Lego® SERIOUS PLAY®.
- Powerful meetings with Open Space to harness people’s knowledge and passion.
Innovation Games® for Understanding Customers
Innovation Games® allow you to engage with customers to build innovative, breakthrough products. It sounds weird, but there is extensive scientific and applied research on how play can be used to consistently achieves outstanding business results.
Although Innovation Games® are used for market research and delivers better data than surveys or focus groups, it is also used effectively to engage with all stakeholders on a project to decide what to do. These games are used routinely by Agile teams to get better results.
The main focus of these games are to 1) Generate breakthrough ideas, 2) Understand current product usage, and 3) To understand priorities. To learn more, the book “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play“ or the Innovation Games® website.
Innovation Games® can be used as part of a half or full day customer advisory board meeting. It is also available online to reach hundreds of customers or stakeholders in a distributed organization.
Lego® Strategic Play® for Innovative Problem Solving
StrategicPlay® with Lego® SERIOUS PLAY® is an experiential process that enhances innovation delivers stunning business results. It is based on research that shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities. StrategicPlay® deepens the reflection process and supports an effective dialogue – for everyone in the organization.
Typical uses are: working out solutions to complex problems, creating a shared understanding, unleashing creative thinking. Example applications include: strategy development, team/organizational development, product innovation.
Open Space for Engaging, Productive Meetings
Open Space is a powerful meeting technology that allows medium to large groups to accomplish great results. Open Space in an excellent choice when there is diversity of opinion, real business issues, complexity and urgency. It has been used for 20 years and has scaled to hundreds of participants. Open Space is a great way to conduct a company offsite or strategic meeting in a way that involves everyone in topics that really matter to them. The mix of passion and choice leads to great results in and after the session.
