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Serious Play for Innovation, Collaboration and Differentiation
 
Wednesday 12th November - Venue: InnovationWorks, Reading
Sponsored by Disruptive Play Ltd and Invenzyme Limited as part of the Thames Valley Innovation Festival
 
As part of the 2008 Thames Valley Innovation Festival, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Certified Partners Disruptive Play and Invenzyme conducted four workshops that gave participants an opportunity to experience the business benefits of Serious Play - a fast-track path to systematic creativity and innovation. 
 
Thanks to everyone who came along! We hope you had an enjoyable day and a few pictures are posted below. If you didn't make it and would like to know more, just contact us and we'll get back to you.
 
Play seriously!
 
Kristina & Jim.
 
MINDSportsTM - Public engagement for the regeneration of Croydon
 
 

From the right...

 

Water canals, dry ski slope.

Cycling paths

Walk ways

The blue balls represents water features which are somehow connected to or linked to a water theme

Buildings with identities and water on the top

Meeting places where you can sit outside and eat in the winter (blankets and heated areas like in Norway, Finland and Sweden).

Put colour on the towers (black castle thing with orange piece on the top)

Green trees

 
 
 
 
 
 

From the left...

 

Elevated Meeting Places and Green areas beneath.

Places for people to be able to set outside and eat even in the winter.

 A dry ski slope and an icing rink integrated into the high street/everyday sports (sports/activity centres along the high street such as games studio, climbing wall, mind puzzles, interactive walls, )

Green spaces for public art and integration of all the parks to create one path which connects them all.

Bring water into the space/fountains and water art.

Elevated green spaces/green rooftops. Art from recycled material

 
 
 
 
 
 
Turbulent Times - Building the group landscape to play out possible events...
 

 

 

 

The groups's simple guiding principles...

 

Get closer to customers / See the world from your customers' eyes

 

Adapt quickly / Be agile and flexible

 

Lateral thinking / Think & plan ahead for what might happen

 

Be positive and embrace change / As one door closes, a window of opportunity opens elsewhere

 

Drive forward with good ideas

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS Sport TM - The nightmare organisation before and after change - Can you can tell which is which?!...

 

 
All workshops were hosted by InnovationWorks, part of the University of Reading. It's a custom-built facility designed to inspire you and get those creative juices flowing. Our thanks go to Rebecca Anderson who manages InnovationWorks for her support and assistance in making the event successful.
 
Disruptive Play and Invenzyme are LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Certified Partners. LEGO and LEGO SERIOUS PLAY are registered trademarks of the LEGO Group and are used here with special permission.