Budget Games –In Kortrijk nemen 150 kinderen dé beslissing over 30.000€!

Wij kunnen jullie met enige trots meedelen dat onze Innovation Games® training, oefensessies en eerdere Budget Games® voor de Kortrijkse deelgemeentes Aalbeke en Heule zijn vruchten afwerpt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnzA1qINjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0Mztc53XQ Tijdens de eerste Budget Games sessie voor Aalbeke had Co-Learning de leiding op zich genomen alsook de volledige productie, facilitatie en nazorg waarna Stad Kortrijk overtuigd […]

10 amazing ways to use a product box at work!

Last week was my first Certified Innovation Games for Customer Understanding training out of many to come and what struck me the most from the 2 very interactive and fun days is the broad employability of the games. I was aware of a lot of different uses of the games and used them myself in […]

A sharing economy business idea for you

Too many ideas, not enough time! A sentence many of us know, many of us feel, and many of us are sometimes frustrated about. One of those fine ideas I had when going through a Gamification track was related to what is known as collaborative consumption or a sharing economy. At the time I explored […]

Budget Games Aalbeke – Resultaten deel 1

Tot onze spijt moeten wij meedelen dat we de volledige resultaten van de Budget Games Aalbeke, 20 Juni 2013, nog niet kunnen meedelen. De Kortrijkse verlofperiode speelt ons parten en pas na het zomerverlof zullen de resultaten aan de Aalbeekse burgers meegedeeld worden, gevolgd door een persvoorstelling. Dit zal dan ook samengaan met de vervolgstappen […]

20 Juni: “Budget Games Kortrijk – Aalbeke”. Waar gaat het over?

We hebben al enkele Engels talige artikels neergepend rond de Budget Games te Kortrijk – Aalbeke en op aanvraag van enkele mensen geven we jullie ook graag verdere informatie in het Nederlands. Budget Games historiek Weinigen onder ons zijn vertrouwd met “Budget Games” zoals het is ontworpen door Luke Hohmann (founder Innovation Games®) voor burger […]

Prioritize with your stakeholders – Innovation Games® Buy a Feature

Back in the old days, I took up the role of a Agile Product Owner within a Healthcare environment and soon discovered that “responsible for setting priorities”, as it is announced in Agile literature, does not mean that doing it by yourself is the right approach. Not surprisingly, we see and hear about similar settings […]

Benefits of playing games at work.

Why play games at work? We get this question a lot of times when we guide entrepreneurs, small and large enterprise organizations. Or a plain remark: “Pfff, playing games?! That’s not work!”. So what is the answer? Why would we like to use games to do serious work? We encounter a lot of organizations that struggle […]

Budget Games Kortrijk Ready, Set, Go…

In April we were happy to announce that we were supporting the City of Kortrijk to organize their own version of the Innovation Games ® – Budget Games and in the mean time lots of work has been done by City council members to prepare for this European scoop. If you do not know anything […]

Innovation Games ® – Budget Games is coming to Belgium, Kortrijk!

Some of you might be familiar with the concept of  “Budget Games”, from its success in San Jose. Some of you might not be, and in that case I would recommend checking out the video below in order to get some context about the subject at hand. [youtube=http://youtu.be/NRYFQzvGkAM] Motivation As an Innovation Games ® and Gamestorming […]

Learn how to manage technical debt from a business perspective

Recently I get a lot of questions related to Technical Debt and Legacy products which triggered me to write this article, explaining how I managed technical debt a while ago. I want to share this information to provide you extra options, I do not claim this system is the best out there, it is just […]