the card game that teaches innovation without taking itself too seriously
Intrapreneurs sets up 2 to 4 players or teams against each other in a battle to launch innovation projects by using various types of assets and resources, while backstabbing each other along the way (just like IRL).
Why should you care?
If the story plot described here sounds familiar, you should care because this game will help you do your job.
Read on and report back…
You have been tasked with transforming the company, to innovate, to disrupt, and at least 3 other important yet vague sounding buzzwords; to be “like a startup”.
Congratulations, you’re an Intrapreneur!
welcome to the party.
In conference rooms, board rooms, or in the hallways of any trade show or conference, it’s the word on everyone’s lips: Innovation!
Innovation is everywhere in writing too, from white papers, magazines, academic research, and that fancy deck your consultants put together, to seemingly everyone’s LinkedIn profile, you can hardly read more than a few paragraphs anywhere without seeing the word or a symbol of it (a light bulb most of the time)
Congratulations, you’re an Intrapreneur!
welcome to the party.
In conference rooms, board rooms, or in the hallways of any trade show or conference, it’s the word on everyone’s lips: Innovation!
Innovation is everywhere in writing too, from white papers, magazines, academic research, and that fancy deck your consultants put together, to seemingly everyone’s LinkedIn profile, you can hardly read more than a few paragraphs anywhere without seeing the word or a symbol of it (a light bulb most of the time)
Learning Innovation, a sh*tshow
Innovation "gurus" are overrated
The problem is: innovation books are by and large terrible; innovation consultants are by and large terrible; innovation podcasts and videos are by and large terrible; and most innovation content is essentially a sales pitch for a software tool, powerpoint template, copyrighted process, or another consulting engagement.
Innovation is like cooking, anyone can follow a recipe and make one dish, but to become a real chef you need to understand the chemistry between ingredients, and the best tool for each job.
So throw away these books that try to convince you to run every innovation process with one magic tool, or that make the same recommendation to every reader regardless of industry, size, culture, etc. and learn by doing, or in this case by playing.
To make this game more accessible, I’ve ported its content to 3 free formats, at online tabletop gaming platform Tabletopia here, via a “pay if you want” PDF version for players to print on their own here, and with a companion mobile app there.
So throw away these books that try to convince you to run every innovation process with one magic tool, or that make the same recommendation to every reader regardless of industry, size, culture, etc. and learn by doing, or in this case by playing.
To make this game more accessible, I’ve ported its content to 3 free formats, at online tabletop gaming platform Tabletopia here, via a “pay if you want” PDF version for players to print on their own here, and with a companion mobile app there.
The digital version (pdf to download and print yourself) is free to play, you can otherwise buy the professionally produced card deck (see "Shop"), or contact license@intrapreneurs-game.com or mathieu@m-guerville.com if you plan to incorporate it into a paid facilitated workshop.
Mathieu Guerville
Creator
