Innovation is a Serious Game Hélène MICHEL
helene.michel@grenoble-em.com @helenemichel3
How a virtual cow changed my life
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Hélène MICHEL - Serious Games - 2015
Serious Games Strategies in Higher Ed
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Evaluating the performance of a training process
Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick (2006); Philips (2002)
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Knowing – Doing Gap
Serious games allow us to…
Understand complexity
Given this context,
what is the b-schools’ game plan ?
Level 1: Recycling
#Ex1 : Create Business Ideas using a Rubik’s Cube
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#Ex2 : L’Oreal game to train hairdressers
Estimated performance of the «Recycling » strategy
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Great! But…
« I didn’t expect
to become an hairdresser… »
Level 2: Ready-to-wear
Daesign – Chambery Business School
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Estimated performance of the « Ready-to-wear » strategy
« What am I paid for?
Providing license codes? »
Level 3: Home-made
A new form of intellectual contribution ?
?
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Estimated performance of the « Home-made » strategy
« It was stimulating and fun.
But I am not going to do this again!
It’s not my job! »
Level 4: Haute-Couture
How do you get funding for this?
Developing a « funded » project
Waiting for donations from generous alumni
Harassing the Board for an investment
The forgotten « WP5 »
Work Package 5: Valorization
Examples of tasks:
T1: Organizing a conference
T2: Creating new training programs
T3: Developing a serious game
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Smartifacts
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Estimated performance of the « Haute-Couture » strategy
« Are we becoming editors?
Who is going to answer to the hotline?
Who will send the licence codes? »
Level 5: Co-design & co-branding
B-schools: from customers to partners
B-schools
1. Content
2. Visibility on the higher education market
3. Academic legitimacy
SG Editors
1. Game Design
2. Innovative pedagogy
3. Distribution capabilities
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Estimated performance of the « Co-branding » strategy
The « serious » cycle
Recycling
Ready-to-wear
Home-made
Haute-couture
Co-branding
Select your strategy
Is the topic of SG in your b-school’s strategy ?
Yes No
Is there a market ?
No Yes
External Internal only Co-branding with an editor
Haute-couture
Find another topic
Do you have the financial resources ?
Home-made
No Yes
« What if the Innovation was out there? »
Eiben, Christopher; Siegel, Justin; Bale, Jacob; Cooper, Seth;
Khatib, Firas; Shen, Betty; Players, Foldit; Stoddard,
Barry; Popovic, Zoran; Baker, David (2012). « Increased Diels-Alderase activity through backbone remodeling guided by Foldit
players ». Nature Biotechnology 30 (2): 190–192.
Retrieved February 22, 2012.
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Estimated performance of the « Learning » Process
Innovation
How to develop an Innovation Strategy with Games?
Co-design & Crowdfunding
with Students and Companies
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#1 Developing our Serious Games Portfolio
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#2 Deploying Games in Innovation Spots
#3 Presenting games as a differenciation tool in innovation
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#5 Developping a Method to design Games for Innovation
#6 Creating a Playground
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#7 Offering a mobile experience
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#8 Training Game Masters
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