Creating conditions for breakthrough innovation
"Inspire innovation and foster creativity in your organization."
What do goat’s milk, spiders, and fishing line have in common? Music records and airlines? Ant behavior and telecommunications routing? Most of us would assume nothing. But out of each of these seemingly random combinations have come radical innovations that have created whole new fields.
Participants take a fascinating journey to the Intersection – a place where ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary new innovations.
Based on the bestselling book “The Medici Effect” by Frans Johansson.
During the seminar, teams discuss and explore:
- What is a breakthrough innovation, and how does it occur?
- What type of conditions foster – or obstruct – innovation? Are we working with the right assumptions?
- How well do we leverage our diversity to explore, find and capitalize on new growth opportunities?
- How will we make it happen?
Who benefits?
The Medici Game targets all types of organizations – across industries and people at all levels. It is a critical tool for sales and marketing, human resources, R&D and product development. Use The Medici Game to:
- Inspire people to think outside of the box and realize their own ability to be innovative.
- Explore some of the latest findings on innovation and reach a shared understanding through dialog and discovery.
- Create an innovative environment and support a cultural shift throughout the organization.
- Kick off a conference, project or other initiative and open people’s minds.
Who were the Medicis?
The Medici family used to rule the city of Florence, Italy some 500 years ago. They would sponsor and train people from a range of different disciplines: architects, sculptors, scientists, philosophers, and such.
They brought them together from all over the world to Florence. There they were able to break down barriers – between different cultures and disciplines – to generate what became one of the most creative periods in our history, the Renaissance.
