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Activities
Here you can find a variety of activities on the subject of innovation. They range from individual projects and reflection frameworks to group level activities suitable for workshops or classroom settings.
60 minute MVP
A fast and fun way to explore the challenges in agile implementation - and generate plenty of experience around which to reflect. Click on the image for the group activity, and click here for a version designed for individual use.
The creativity gym
A range of activities designed to enhance and develop creative skills
Accelerating adoption and diffusion
An activity designed to help you explore how we might use our research-based understanding of why, when and how people make the decision to adopt something new - and what we can do to shape our innovation and present it to enhance our chances of getting it taken up.
Analogies
An activity to help in creative problem solving.
Appropriability
An activity to help explore different ways of protecting intellectual property
Architectural and component innovation
An activity for identifying architectural and component innovation, and the implications of each type.
Bags of ideas
This activity is designed to help you explore knowledge push as a source of innovation.
Blocks to Creativity
An activity for identifying various categories of blocks to creativity.
An activity linked to the ‘Bubble Charts’ Tool, applying it to a hypothetical scenario.
Business Model Canvas
An activity using the Business Model canvas framework, and working backwards to understand an existing business more fully.
Business Model Innovation
An activity using the Business Model canvas framework, and working backwards to understand an existing business more fully.
Changing Business Models
An activity for exploring how and why business models change.
Classifying Business Models
An activity for classifying various types of business models.
Classifying innovation
An activity for classifying innovation using the 4Ps framework.
Costs and revenue in business models
Choose a product or service which you have consumed recently. Try to set out the underlying business model.
Competence Enhancing & Competence Destroying Innovation
This is an activity designed to explore patterns of innovation over time and across industries.
Competitiveness profiling
A powerful tool for picking up signals for innovation involves creating a simple profile of how your products and processes match up to what the market wants and what your best competitors can offer.
Corporate entrepreneurship activity
Activity to explore the challenges in creating internal entrepreneurial capability in established organizations
Creating value through innovation
An activity exploring the ways in which a new innovation might create value.
Creativity matters
An activity that helps you to come up with creative solutions.
Creativity Quiz questionnaire
Creativity Quiz questionnaire.
Crowdfunding as a selection tool
Crowdfunding is becoming increasingly popular as a way of opening up a market for ideas. This activity explores the role it can play in innovation selection
Crumbling Cement Company
A role play designed to explore issues around innovation strategy