{"id":5649,"date":"2013-04-10T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/gamestorming-playing-with-ideas\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:40:51","slug":"gamestorming-playing-with-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/en\/gamestorming-playing-with-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamestorming: Playing with Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently while I was documenting the phenomenon of gamification<\/a> to use it to reduce an employee\u2019s learning curve for a given tool, I came across a book titled \u201cGamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers\u201d by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo.<\/p>\n

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The book proposes that as we gradually change from the industrial economy to the knowledge economy, workers also need to change the way they do their tasks: it is no longer enough to cover the needs of a perfectly defined job with some clear and concise responsabilities. The knowledge worker must be creative, innovate, surprise<\/strong>\u2014we cannot defend ourselves with the classic excuse, “Oh, I am not a creative person any more”.<\/p>\n

To tackle this, the authors took on the task of gathering methods and practices that imaginative people in top organizations use in their creative process and package them into a meaningful way for those of us who do not feel as creative, so we can put them into practice. The result was 83 games designed to stimulate creativity (the number of games continue to grow on the web page created for that purpose: Gogamestorm).Using these games to help our creative process requires three phases that are clearly differentiated during the game:<\/p>\n