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A public but secret story of innovation, in Lisbon, Portugal - July 2011, co-designed by The Thinkling Hotel and synergised by Sintese Azul, boosted by MCG - Mind for Metal. 60 business leaders and innovators played a business transformational game to explore the future of their companies. Prof John Boult (Brunel University and Product First Ltd - UK), Nick de Mei (Board of Innovation, Belgium), Zoe Fitzgerald (from all over the world), Susana Branco and Maria Azevedo Coutinho (Cooperativa Creativa - Portugal) and Carlos Cabeleira (COTEC - Portugal) helped teams to discover how they could make a great concept into a real businessTRANSCRIPT
LisbonJuly 2011
Just imagine what would happen if you combined…
… a fashion business, with a sandwich bar, an online social network, a software developer and your own organization to
create a new business concept?
Aim, mission or ambition?Change Play Business (CPB) is a transformational game and a possible answer to help business leaders explore the impossible as a way to overcome real life barriers for success in a context where the digital technology, radical change in consumer behaviour, the failure of traditional business models, limited access to finance, fierce and global competition for talent together with the need for sustainability are challenging the skills and imagination of today’s business
leaders and their advisers.
Changing the rules! All games have rules, and so do businesses. Change Play Business is about change therefore we changed the rules . … orsecret messages as we call them!
Why play?
Marty Neumeier, The Designfull Company : How to build a culture of nonstop
innovation
Imagine a crazy world where what you learned in business school is either upside down
or backwards — where customers control the company, jobs are avenues of self-
expression, the barriers to competition are out of your control, strangers design your
products, fewer features are better, advertising drives customers away, demographics
are beside the point, whatever you sell you take back, best practices are obsolete at
birth; where meaning talks, money walks, and stability is fantasy; where talent trumps
obedience, imagination beats knowledge, and empathy trounces logic. If you’ve been
paying close enough attention, you don’t have to imagine this Alice-in-Wonderland
scenario. You see it forming all around you.
The only question is whether you can change your business fast enough to take full
advantage of it.
CPB Players - Lisbon’ expectations: 61,0% to … unlock creativity and find new ways of thinking59,3% to … Find new business models and value creation for ourorganisation; 27,1% to… Find new partners and new projects for my company :18,6% to… Reassess talents, assets, competencies in my team / organisation;
Who played in… Lisbon?60 Portuguese business leaders + 2 internationalplayers, from very diversebackgrounds…
15%
10%
22%
2%2%
17%
25%
7%
Real SME in transformational process (service provider)
Real SME in transformational process (manufacturer/product provider)
Large Organization with a strategic challenge
Public service / Civil Service
An ONG / Non-profit / Charity
An idea for a new business or enterprise (start-up)
A special project
industries represented … as diverse as this:Cultural / Events / Arts3rd Sector AgricultureMobility / AutomobileAviation / AirlinesFinancial Services / Banks Professional Services FMCG -Beverages PublicServices Risk capital / tourism Media TelecomunicationProfessional Services -Consultancy Design Public ServicesPublishing EngeneeringTraining and CoachingPlasters and Plastics IT services TranscriptionsServices Family supportservices Solar energyTourism
V
0,0%5,0%
10,0%15,0%20,0%25,0%30,0%35,0%40,0%45,0%
Logic and factual. I am sensitive to numbers and
precision
I am very organised and process driven.
Empathic and emotional. Sensitive
to feelings and emothions.
Imaginative and visionary, ideas driven
and tend to think from future backwards.
The Players Thinking Profiles…
25%
29%
46%
ChangePlayBusiness-Lisboa-July2011
Majority of players were purple…25% Blue Players bring reality to this game, 29% Green Players bring a different level of challenge to this game, 46% Purple Players inject imagination into the process.
Blue Player: I am bringing a real business/brand or organization to the game, and I am able to share real information.
Green Player: I am bringing a real business/brand or organization to the game, and I am able to share a degree of real information, but not full. Some data may be twisted to protect confidential issues.
Purple Player:I am bringing an imaginary business/brand or organization to the game, and I will provide imaginary information, but describe with the same conviction as if it exists.
Lets start! Welcome to the Moon…
How do we see the future… from the Moon?PEOPLE LOOK AT THE FUTURE WITH DIFFERENT LENSES: SOME THINK ABOUT HOW TO USE IT, OTHERS ABOUT HOW TO BENEFIT FROM IT, SOME DON´T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE AND OTHERS LOVE TO ANTICIPATE IT. WE TAKE CHANGE PLAYERS TO THE MOON AND INVITE THEM TO TELL US WHAT THEY KNOW, AND WHAT THEY IMAGINE WILL HAPPEN. NOT BECAUSE THEY REALLY KNOW, BUT BECAUSE WE ALLOW PLAYERS TO IMAGINE AND THEN WORK BACKWARDS … WHEN THEY COME BACK TO THEIR LIVES!
Insights about the future in a collective task gathering the shared “knowns and unknown-knowns” about the Future!
PLEASURE…OPTMISM!
INFORMED VIEWS
AMBITIONIMAGINATION
On the “Moon” we heard John Boult´s vision to open our minds, and challenge ourways of thinking about the world and the Future.
And… why does it matter? Carlos Martins shared very thought-provoking scenarios, which were controversial and raised hot discussions.
And now… you can say goodbye to the Moon, but please take your passport with you, and read carefully before you come back… you must think about your business in a new way, check details inside!
Friday – 15.07.2011 - Good morning dear Player! Read the morning news, enjoy a nice breakfast and get your table no.!Perfect start, there were no obvious symptoms of players with an allergy to change!
A game without winners or losers, just innovators? YES!!!!
Now: time to describe your business in facts, figures and key words…
And then meet your unthinkable “big idea-team”…find them at the table!
Explore random connections, fun, trial and idea generation… to mix the purple, green and blue businesses from each team. The first challenge is quantity: generate as many ideas as possible, as crazy as impossible!
Results before mid-day: 12 tables, and all together generated around of 300 intersectional new ideas in less than 2hrs!
Time to get the ROI…returns on ideas! Returns are paid in time-money to teams, who will use it to buy tools, experts, and access master classes.
And now decision time: do we have a good idea? Do we trust the team? Good ideas are just good ideas, breakthrough innovation only happens with committed teams behind great visions. Players can: abandon the team, stay and continue ideation or select one idea and move forward.
STEP 2: Check-Outside starts now:
Ideas can´t flourish in isolation, they need a committed team and the right context. Check-Outside is for teams to find the context: mapping stakeholders, find new trends and context, the new knowledge and experts, meet other players who can help develop the context for a new concept.
And all teams could use the Market Wall St to recruit talent and assets. We want to hear more stories from players! Please get in touch.
NETWORKING: the whole process of Change Play Business is a way of networking, in which players are invited to explore synergies between themselves, however far outside their context, sector, industry cluster or expertise. In Check-Outside each player had a chance to swap cards with another 6 players, and find someone with an unexpected answer to the team´s project.
Master Classes: the third element of Check-Outside! Experts share new knowledge - relevant to players in the game as well as to their own businesses. This time the four themes were: business model, design and innovation, co-creation and creative thinking.
Tango with designers: John BoultAnonymous comment: “excellent! I learned how to connect business,
brand, experience and service with innovation.”
Co-creation: Zoe Fitzgerald Anonymous comment: “really useful and an excellent session! A new way of using the most important resources in my organization: people and creativity”
Designing Business models that rock! Nick de MeiAnonymous comment: “great discovery about new business models with great applications in my organization”
Cooking ideas: Cooperativa Creativa – Susana Branco and Maria A. CoutinhoAnonymous comment: Cooking ideas –great game of creativity, really wellorganized. Able to apply the tools and processes into my own business “
COTEC
If you missed this session keep an eye on the next Change Play Business event in Portugal
STEP 3: Check-up …. From ideas to business models
STEP 3: Check-up …. Recruiting new talent…and hiring experts.
STEP 3: Check-up …. Working together with business experts.
STEP 3: Check-up …. And shaping new businesses with your hands, your eyes, your senses and creativity.
STEP 3: Check-up …. Design is a messy process, and hard work is better when we are having fun!
STEP 3: Check-up …. Design-led Thinking tools – Future Trends Cards are an inspiring way to help teams understand and find the context and opportunities for their ideas.
STEP 3: Check-up …. Other Thinking tools available, like research cards, the business model toolkit, onlyness journey … all there to help build the business case, the vision and why an investor should put their time or money into the new idea.
STEP 4: SHOW IT AND SHARE IT
There is very little value in keeping ideas as secrets. We believe creative capital only works well if shared. The teams’ last mission is to shape the new concepts and businesses into a presentation for the whole group and demonstrate why anyone should invest time-money in their idea.
No winners or losers
… just innovators!
Some teams worked together, with other teams or players, and developed their ideas with experts and facilitators. At the end the ideas were shared and those who had “time-money” expressed their preference, investing all money in one idea. The following page is not an indicator of quality of the ideas, or ability to implement, but a ranking of the preferences of those who had money.
RANKING NAME OF THE NEW CONCEPT INVESTMENT MIN
TABLE NO.
1 Winergy 5030 12
2 Disney no Espaço 2800 9
3 Sonergy 2200 5
4 Re-Shape 885 3
5 On Arrival 820 7
6 Play Dream BELOW 800 10
7 Onde está a Tasca BELOW 800 8
8 Adaptmobile BELOW 500 11
9 Magic Atlantis BELOW 500 3
10 Fun 4 kids BELOW 500 2
11 Just Eat It! BELOW 500 4
12 Pop-Up Cream BELOW 500 6
TABLE # 12: Winergy – this happened when we combined CTT and PT and MCG and Sintese Azul and Turismo Capital
TABLE # 9: Disney no Espaço this happened when we combined On Spot, PT, Centro de Artes e Ideias. MCG and XEROX Portugal
TABLE # 5: SONERGY: this happened when we combined Ashoka e PAR, UIDIU, Marcador, MCG and Camara Municipal de Oeiras
TABLE # 13: Re-Shape this happened when we combined MCG, Camara Municipal de Oeiras and Mysterious Players
TABLE # 7: On Arrival - this happened when we combined Deslink, MCG, PT, S. Central Cervejas and XEROX
TABLE # 10: Play Dream - this happened when we combined IM Magazine, Diferencia, MCG, and PT
TABLE # 8: Onde está a Tasca - this happened when we combined Banco BNP. Central de Cervejas, MCG, PT and Cerebrelidades
TABLE # 11: Adaptmobile - this happened when we combined BP, Frontino TurismoSA, PT, CoWork Lab, MCG
TABLE # 3: MAGIC ATLANTIS - this happened when we combined MPSCRIBE, MCG, Brave Mind, Netjet and PT
TABLE # 2: Fun 4 kids - this happened when we combined Help Images, MCG, BancoInvest. CSR PARTNERS LLP , MUNICIPALLITY ASSEN
TABLE # 4: Just Eat It! this happened when we combined DNA Solutions, ANA –Aeroportos de Portugal, CMO , MCG
TABLE # 6: Pop-Up Cream – this happened when we combined Sintese Azul , MCG, PT, NetJets, Bravemind
But a lot more happened during the day*…75% said they learned new ways of thinking, and actively shared new knowledge relevant for their innovation and/or business challenges. 15% said the game changed the way they think, 89% had fun and 68% said this process helped them discover new organisational models. 54% feel they achieved the goal to establish the basis for new partnerships.
*data collected through feedback forms at the end of the day. Further research will be conducted to gather insights and
measure impact post event. Figures based on 60% of the players, who gave their feedback.
CHANGE PLAY BUSINESS? EXCITING…EXAUSTING…FULFILLING!
And this is not the End,
it´s…THE AND!
Change Play Business is designed to create new ways of thinking and doing, and every time we play the game it generates new ideas, new possibilities, new ways of seeing businesses and the world we live in. Players may find new synergies and partners to explore an exciting venture, and some will change their organizational models, and come back for new questions, challenges and change the game again and again. Now – why not tell us what you think?
Now – why not tell us what you think?
Portugal - Sintese Azul [email protected] ,
[email protected] , [email protected]
The World - The Thinking Hotel: Chris Wilkie [email protected] , Olga Casademunt [email protected]
Villie Tsang [email protected] andMaria Ana [email protected]
And a BIG THANK YOU to those who played
and those who made it possible to play …
The amazing
Players
ALEXANDRA CARVALHO PT
AMÂNDIO RODRIGUES ASHOKA
ANA FRANCISCA SOBRINHO FRUIT SPICES
ANA LIA SANTOS DESLINK
ANA LUIS ANA - AEROPORTOS DE
PORTUGAL , S.A.
ANA TERESA SILVA IM MAGAZINE
ANABELA POSSIDONIO BP
ANDREIA NARIGÃO BRAVEMIND
ANTONIO CHANOCA SÍNTESE AZUL
ANTÓNIO GERALDO MCG
BÁRBARA MONIZ BRAVEMIND
BERNARDO ALEGRA ON SPOT
CARLA CRUZ CTT
CARLOS BRAZ CORREIA NETJETS EUROPE
CARLOS LUCAS MCG
CARLOS SARAIVA MCG
CATARINA SANTOS PORTUGAL TELECOM
CATIA HENRIQUES GRACE
CELIA METRASS DNASOLUTIONS
CRISTINA DIAS
CRISTINA GALVÃO PT
DIOGO BASÍLIO BANCO BNP PARIBAS PERSONAL
FINANCE
ERIK DE WILD MUNICIPALLITY ASSEN
FÁBIO RODRIGUES DIFERENCIA
FERNANDO PÊRA CEA FÁBRICA DA PÓLVORA
GONÇALO ALMEIDA MCG
The amazing
Players
GONÇALO HENRIQUES PORTUGAL TELECOM
HUGO PEREIRA
ISABEL ELISEU SCC
ISABEL GRAÇA MEDEIROS MCG MIND FOR METAL
ISABELINA JORGE UIDIU LDA
JOÃO CARLOS FRANCISCO MCG
JOÃO DOLORES PORTUGAL TELECOM
JOÃO GONÇALVES MARCADOR
JOÃO JACINTO FRONTINO - TURISMO, S.A.
JOAO MENESES CMO
JOSÉ GRAÇA MEDEIROS MCG MIND FOR METAL
KAREN ISHIDA COWORK LAB
KENE UMEASIEGBU CSR PARTNERS LLP
LUIS MADUREIRA CENTRAL CERVEJAS
MARIA JOÃO RESENDE CEREBRALIDADES, LDA.
MARIANA ARGA E LIMA PORTUGAL TELECOM
NUNO GONÇALVES BANCO INVEST
PATRÍCIA AIBÉO XEROX PORTUGAL
PAULO NEVES MCG
PEDRO CARVALHO MCG
PEDRO PEREIRA MCG
PEDRO SANTOS SÍNTESE AZUL
PEDRO SOUSA MCG
RAQUEL CLEMENTE MARTINS HELP IMAGES
RICARDO DIAS MCG
RICARDO ROSADO PORTUGAL TELECOM
The amazing
Players
RITA BOTELHO NEVES MPSCRIBE
RITA PEREIRA TURISMO CAPITAL
RUI DUARTE LIFE CHOICES
RUI FIGUEIREDO NETJETS
PARTICULAR
SANDRA ANDRADE XEROX PORTUGAL
SARA FARIA SIVAL
SOFIA LINO MCG
SOFIA MOITINHO DE ALMEIDA PT
TÂNIA GUERREIRO PRODUÇÕES INDEPENDENTES -
ASSOCIAÇÃO
Master Class
Speakers &
Experts
ZOE FITZGERALD AROUND THE WORLD
MASTER OF CO-CREATION
NICK DE MEI WORLD MASTER OF
BUSINESS MODEL
INNOVATION
JOHN BOULT OVER THE WORLD
GAMECHANGER AND
INNOVATOR
SUSANA BRANCO QUEEN OF FUN AND
CREATIVE REBEL NO. 1
MARIA AZEVEDO
COUTINHO
QUEEN OF FUN CREATIVE
REBEL NO. 2
CARLOS CABELEIRA THE AGENT OF INNOVATIVE
MYSTERIES IN PORTUGAL
CARLOS MARTINS THE CREATIVITY
AMBASSADOR AND THOUGHT
CHALLENGER
SUSANA SOARES EMPATHIC LOVER OF ALL
TEAMS
CARLOS RAMOS SUPER COOL TRAINER
ANA SOFIA
SANTOSTHE COOLEST COACH
TIAGO TOREGÃOTOP SPY OF MASTER
THOUGHTS
ISABEL FAIA SUPER ENGAGED TRAINER
PEDRO CERDEIRA LORD OF BUSINESS MODEL
INÊS SANTOS SILVASILENT DRIVER OF SUBTLE
CHANGES
The
Super
Cool Facilitators
The Thinking
Hotel and
Sintese Azul
Team:
MARIA ANA
NEVES
FOUNDER AND HEAD OF IDEAS
OLGA
CASADEMUNT
HEAD OF COMMUNICATION & BRAND LISTENER
CHRIS WILKIE SUPERVISOR, HEAD OF COORDINATED THINKING
& A SUPERB MEDIATOR
VILLIE TSANG NEW MEDIA DESIGNER & INNOVATION
MONIKA HESTAD CHANGE PLAY BUSINESS DESIGN MENTOR
MICHAEL
METELITS
INDEPENDENT NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CONSULTANT AND SCENARIO PLANNING
EXPERT
SILVIA BAUMGART SILVIA BAUMGART: THE MOST PRACTICAL AND
PASSIONATE CLIENT WE HAD
EUGENIE FUNG PRODUCER OF CPB PROMOS
MARIA JOÃO
RESENDE
A MASTER OF WORDS FOR PORTUGUESE
THOUGHTS
ANTÓNIO
CHANOCA
THE BRAVE CHAMPION OF INNOVATIVE
THINKING
PEDRO SANTOS NEARLY INVISIBLE TEAM CONDUCTOR
SUSANA RAMOS HEAD OF AMAZING OPERATIONS
FERNANDO
MENDES
GREAT BELIEVER AND MOTIVATOR OF THE
UNBELIEVABLE CHALLENGES
ERIC VANDAME THE MOST TRUSTED DOER
RUI DUARTE THE APPRENTICE