This slidedeck walks you through an overview of Innovation Games and how they can help you develop products in a collaborative, fun and interactive way. You will also learn about the how Innovation Games can be used in the context of collaborative product development.

1. An Overview of Tools & Methods
For the New-age Business Analyst
Collaborative Product Development
Through Innovation Games®

2. Innovation Games for Business AnalystsInnovation Games for Business Analysts
Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games®
• How can Innovation Games® help
• A look at some Innovation Games®
• Summary
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NOTE: Innovation Games® is a registered mark and copyright
of Innovation Games company (www.innovationgames.com)

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Agenda
 A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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A bit about Texavi
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Team Texavi comprises experienced and specialist professionals
With a combination of experienced senior team members and
junior aspirants
From business, technology, design and customer experience
areas
Well-qualified with the right educational backgrounds,
certifications and professional associations
Started with 2 people initially, we grew to a team of 10 members

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A bit about Texavi
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Platforms & Technology stacks for Texavi Solutions
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Texavi Partners and Alliances
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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
 Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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Newage Business Analysis - Tools, Methods & Approaches
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Newage Business Analyst…
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• Is agile, lean – a “change agent”
• Has thought-leadership
• Is a smart-thinker
• Tech-savvy professional
• Has generic knowledge, focused & specialised skills
• Possesses sound business acumen
• Has deep domain, product, process awareness

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Focus of Newage Business Analysis
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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
 Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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Where does innovation lie
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Collaboration + Work + Fun = …
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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
 What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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What are Innovation Games®
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• Innovation Games® are “serious” games to aid collaborative
working, ideation among teams
• Great facilitation tool to creative thinking and working
• Innovation Games® are collaborative exercises that could
involve and engage the following:
o Internal – team members, sales, HR, senior management
o External – customers, users and other stakeholders
NOTE: Innovation Games® is a registered mark and copyright
of Innovation Games company (www.innovationgames.com)

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What are Innovation Games®
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• NOTE: Innovation games, exercises and techniques in the context
of this presentation connote to Innovation Games®
• These games are created and curated by the following:
– Innovation Games® (http://www.innovationgames.com)
– Conteneo (http://conteneo.co)
– Game Storming (http://www.gogamestorm.com)
– Luke Hohmann, Dave Gray,Sunni Brown, James Macanufo and a lot of
others…
• Forget the game, remember the goal – fun, engagement,
creativity and freedom
• Let’s Play!!!

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Some Innovation Games
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• Speedboat
• Spider Web
• Give them a hot tub
• Show and tell
• Remember the future
• Buy a feature
• Prune the product tree
• Product Box
• …many more [In the following slides, we will look at few of the
above]

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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
 How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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How can Innovation Games help
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• Involve, engage & collaborate with right “people”
• Identify the problems in existing products
• Conceptualising and envisioning new product
• Prioritising the features and functionality
• Think beyond product to understand larger context

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Engage & collaborate with the “right” people
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• Customers, users
• Product development team members
• Senior management
• Internal stakeholders – sales, QC,HR
• External stakeholders – vendors

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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
 A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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Innov games to improve existing products
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Innov games are a great tool to enhance the products
• Reach out to the existing customers and users
• Identify problems with the product’s features and functionality
• Not just product’s features, but also the fitment and fitness of
purpose to users’ environment
• Ideate and define areas of improvement in and around the
product

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Innov games to improve existing products
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• Show and Tell
• Speedboat
• Stop - Keep - Start

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Innov games for new product development
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Innovation Games are great for green-field product development
• Involve and engage with the customers, users and key
stakeholders
• Identify the “real” needs, problems & opportunities
• Conceptualise and envision the need for the new product
• Go beyond the features and functionality of the product in
question
• Think about the potential scenarios

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• Product box
• Remember the future
• Give them a hot tub
• Buy a feature
• 20/20 vision
Innov games for new product development

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Innov games for scoping and prioritising the features
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Some innovation games are effective tools in scoping the product
• Select the features and non-functional aspects of product
• Prioritise based on several factors:
o Business (RoI) goals
o Implementation / technology / platform aspects
o Needs of customers, users and stakeholders

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Innov games to help prioritise and define scope
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• 20/20 Vision
• Buy a feature
• Prune the product tree

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Agenda
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
 Summary
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Texavi Mantras on ‘collaborative product innovation’
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Summary
• A bit about Texavi
• Introduction: New-age Business Analyst
• Overview on product innovation
• What are Innovation Games
• How can Innovation Games help
• A look at some Innovation Games
• Summary
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