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Whatever kind of problem we are facing, generally there has been something on one of these cards that have helped to think through it or get us unstuck.
Charlie Rowat, Strategic Innovation Executive, Salesforce
Build skills to innovate
PlayCards distil six years of research into the skills and capabilities organisations need to be able to innovate into a simple tool that helps individuals, small groups and teams.
In his work, Matt Ballantine has spoken with people in traditional businesses, the arts, government, consulting and more to create a straightforward model that helps people to understand what they need to be able to do to do things differently.
PlayCards enable you to play with those concepts, and take clear actions to build up the attributes you and your organisation need to innovate in our ever-changing world.
They are a 52-card deck that can be used solo, with groups or by facilitators to help people to explore their Play Skills. Designed by Matt Ballantine after many years of research, the cards have been beautifully illustrated by Ellie Dallison from Studio KT1.
Measuring 62x86mm, the PlayCards have been printed on 330gsm Black Core card by the expert card and games manufacturers Ludo Cards in Piedmont, Italy.
The cards are also available as a digital download and on Deckible.
I highly recommend anyone working in innovation to get themselves a set.
Alex Wrottesley, Managing Director, Landmark Geodata
For individuals
You can use PlayCards to explore your own appetites and comfort for the 13 critical skills and capabilities necessary to be a successful innovator. From a skills inventory, through to daily prompts, PlayCards can help you get better at making significant changes happen.
For teams
PlayCards can allow teams to build a common language for innovation skills, and explore different levels of capability and comfort that exist in different people. They can also provide a valuable way to identify key gaps in a teams’ innovation capability, or areas of complacency.
For coaches and consultants
With PlayCards, internal and external coaches and consultants can explore issues around capability and comfort to help their clients create positive plans to increase their innovation capability.
The story so far…
Matt started his research after many years of working within and consulting for large organisations and observing that whilst they often would express a desire to become more innovative, they often seemed to lack the right mindsets and people for innovative change to become a reality.
As well as talking with people in his consulting clients, Matt extended his search across the world of technology startups, big corporate R&D, and less obvious places like improvisational comedy, theatre, the arts and music.
The result of this work is a framework that describes 13 attributes in 3 key areas – Play Skills.
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