Gamestorming
A playbook for innovators, rule breakers, and changemakers.
Great things don’t happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: Gamestorming.
80+ games
This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world’s most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. This book is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity while bringing more structure and clarity to the workplace. Find out why — and how — with Gamestorming.
“Why does Gamestorming work? How is it that these tools can be so powerful? I have trouble putting words around it. But I know that the moment people start to gather around visual tools and frameworks, the dynamic changes. Work gets faster, easier, more creative and collaborative. It goes more smoothly and generates better results. That’s the power of Gamestorming. It makes work work.”
Alex Osterwalder, Founder and CEO, Strategyzer, author of Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, and The Invincible Company.
What can you do with Gamestorming?
- Identify a problem’s root cause, and find the paths that point toward a solution.
- Overcome conflict and increase engagement with team-oriented games.
- Improve collaboration and communication in cross-disciplinary teams with visual-thinking techniques.
- Improve understanding by role-playing customer and user experiences.
- Generate better ideas and more of them, faster than ever before.
- Shorten meetings and make them more productive.
- Simulate and explore complex systems, interactions, and dynamics.
“Gamestorming will revolutionize how you generate ideas and align your team. Moving away from brainstorming and toward Gamestorming will produce outcomes unimagined.”
Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design, author of Slide:ology, Resonate, and Illuminate.
Break down barriers, boost creativity, and turn every meeting into a problem-solving playground with 80+ proven games. Gamestorming gives you a unique toolkit of interactive exercises to engage your team and drive real results, making work more fun and more productive.
If you’re a facilitator, team leader, corporate trainer, or innovator craving more effective collaboration, this book is designed for you. It’s time to replace boring, unproductive meetings with energizing sessions that ignite innovation and get everyone contributing their best ideas.
“Everybody knows the problem: we need to be more innovative. Now we’ve got the solution: Gamestorming. This smart, fun, hands-on book will energize your brain and mobilize your creativity — and do it using stuff you already have in your office supply closet!”
Dan Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind.
What you’ll learn
Inside Gamestorming, you’ll discover how to transform the way your team works. Here’s what you’ll be able to do with this playbook of creativity:
- Overcome team conflict & boost engagement – Learn fun, goal-oriented games that get everyone involved and break down silos.
- Improve collaboration across disciplines – Use visual-thinking techniques to help diverse teams communicate and solve problems together.
- Understand your customers better – Role-play customer and user experiences to gain insights that drive smarter decisions.
- Generate better ideas, faster – Unlock dozens of ideation activities to produce more innovative ideas in less time.
- Make meetings shorter and more productive – Turn long, dull meetings into focused “game sessions” that accomplish more in less time.
- Tackle complex challenges with play – Simulate and explore complex systems and processes through guided games, making them easier to understand.
- Find creative solutions together – Identify root causes of problems and collaboratively map out solutions using engaging group activities.
Each “game” is a step-by-step activity you can immediately use to spark creativity and structure in your team’s discussions. No more blank stares or stale brainstorms – with Gamestorming, every session has a clear purpose and a lively vibe that gets ideas flowing.
“Gamestorming is a brilliant book that’ll help every team plow through the wicked problems they face on a daily basis, in a creative and fun way.”
Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering.
Break down barriers, boost creativity, and turn every meeting into a problem-solving playground with 80+ proven games. Gamestorming gives you a unique toolkit of interactive exercises to engage your team and drive real results, making work more fun and more productive.
If you’re a facilitator, team leader, corporate trainer, or innovator craving more effective collaboration, this book is designed for you. It’s time to replace boring, unproductive meetings with energizing sessions that ignite innovation and get everyone contributing their best ideas.
I’m Dave Gray, co-author of Gamestorming.
This book started within my company, XPLANE, as a collection of methods and practices we used in work with our corporate clients to build alignment and activate business strategies. Our approach was so successful we served 40 percent of Fortune 500 before we sold our company to Tier1 Performance in 2022.
This book was a runaway success and has now sold more than 100,000 copies. It has been translated into many languages and has become a standard toolkit for innovation and creativity around the world.
Trusted by Business Leaders & Readers
4.5 stars on Amazon. Gamestorming is rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (average of 800+ reviews on Amazon).
“Most organizations would welcome more innovation… This book is probably the fastest and easiest – and most economical – way to make that happen.”
— Review in Research 2.0“If you are a business owner or manager who wants to look at things in a new way and sharpen innovation in your company or on your team, Gamestorming is an excellent resource for you.”
— CanadaOne Magazine
“If you’re a facilitator, corporate trainer, team leader or in a creative role within a company, this book will be valuable to you”
— Broadcasting Brain
Thousands of professionals worldwide — from Fortune 500 strategists to startup coaches — have embraced Gamestorming to energize their work. The techniques in this book have been field-tested by the world’s most innovative teams, so you can trust they’ll work for you too.
Every day you wait is another day stuck in the status quo. Don’t let your next meeting fall flat or your team’s next big idea go unheard. Take action now to revolutionize how you collaborate and problem-solve.
Buy Gamestorming now and get instant access to the games and techniques that will transform your meetings into innovation engines. Grab your copy today and watch your team’s energy, creativity, and results reach new heights!