Henning Breuer Knihy

Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs explores a transformative superpower that enables the creation and adaptation of games to address significant societal and organizational challenges faced by companies, startups, and nonprofits. These games are specifically designed for stakeholder engagement, experimentation, and driving innovation. The power of gamification lies in its integration of diverse methodologies from fields such as futures studies, user experience, agile management, and design thinking into an engaging framework. Each game world offers a safe environment for collaborative experimentation. The book draws on insights from over 150 leading experts and provides a wealth of resources for innovators, entrepreneurs, and game designers. It features 36 gamification design patterns, including dilemma solving and storytelling, and offers a game design canvas for creating custom innovation games. Additionally, it includes summaries and references for over 70 customizable games currently used by professionals. Resources for educators and game facilitators are also provided, emphasizing the role of games in learning and transformation. While gamification does not promise simplistic solutions, the tools and knowledge offered empower readers to confront today's pressing challenges with confidence. This comprehensive overview serves as a valuable guide to gamification in the context of innovation and entrepreneurshi

We live in a time where we have reached broad agreement on 'why' to act for sustainability in business. The challenge is now to understand 'how'. In this book, sustainability and innovation experts Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa explore sustainable business model design. What it is, why it matters, and - most importantly - how to make it work.They present 45 patterns for the design of next generation sustainable business models, illustrating how innovative companies and visionary entrepreneurs have implemented them, what sustainability challenges they have solved and what innovation opportunities they have captured.The principles and practice of sustainable business model design are woven together here as never before. This book is a long overdue guide and inspiration on how to design next generation sustainable business models