A powerful success catalyst that helps you

●  create radical innovations 

●  make big changes 

●  pursue emerging opportunities

and also

assess the strength of an innovation team

and

select the best ventures to invest in

The objective of the innovation team is to turn an idea into a great business. The task of the opponents is to simulate various types of likely problems that may happen in real life. Other innovation team plays for the opponents. All ideas generated are assessed by the judges.

The starting idea together with information about resource limits is provided by the organizers and communicated to the both team at least one day in advance. The team of innovators develops the initial project outline which is communicated to the opponents and judges in advance.

The innovation team makes strategic moves, guesses opponents' counterattacks and invents creative solutions to the problems created by them. Having received the description of an opponent's move, a team may ask up to three clarifying questions. Experts give marks to the moves and guesses of the both teams.

Team members generate strategic ideas and solutions, individually or jointly. They also try to anticipate opponents' counterattacks. All ideas are submitted to the team leader who is to rate them and select the best one.

To know your enemy, become your enemy

SPIN ‒ Spiral Integration of Ideas   

Kore 10 Innovative Thinking Tools are used by both innopreneurs and their opponents to manage the ideation process and simulate creative moves

Kore 10 Tools are also used for anticipating opponents' move.
Judges assess both actions and anticipation skills of the players.

The Method of Weighted Criteria, inter alia, is used by the team leader to evaluate ideas generated by the team members.
The judges may also use this method to assess the idea evaluation and selection skills of the team leader

Innovation Football helps strengthen an innovation team, business model andsustainable competitive advantage ‒ all within few hours.
The smarter the innovation team, the stronger the resulting business model and strategies will be.

The marks given by the judges during the game define the total rating of each player. The rating of the team leader is calculated based on his/her idea evaluation abilities. The resulting business strategy is evaluated separately after the game in over.

Every team player gets a set of individual ratings that include
an overall rating and
subratings for creative problem solving, anticipating opponents' moves, creative marketing and activeness.