Category: Video Interview

Key Characteristics of a Coach with Jeff Lopez-Stuit

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A coach has a huge influence on sporting success by inspiring people to innovate. In our discussion with Jeff Lopez-Stuit, we have discussed the key characteristics of a coach, and as a leader how a coach measures success.

Jeff has highlighted the significance of having something you stand for and which is greater than yourself, as a starting point of a coaching journey. He also suggested to let people have self-created problems in order to encourage creative thinking in an organisation and shared insights on challenges leaders facing today.

Interviewee : Jeff Lopez-Stuit

Jeff is one of the few Certified Enterprise Coaches (CEC). He is a global coach and help people and organisation improve their ability to improve. He guides organizations to exploit the fundamentals of Agile to leave behind the inadequate structures of the past and establish an environment that enables continuous delivery of the highest value for all.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Understanding Game Thinking and Design Thinking with Amy Jo Kim

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In an interesting interview with us, Amy Jo Kim discusses how game thinking and design thinking are different from each other. Design thinking involves rapid iteration and empathising with customers and figuring out what customer needs. According to her, game thinking embraces all of Design Thinking but it also adds progress and mastery which comes from gaming. Three element that takes game thinking beyond design thinking are;
1. Who you focus on when empathise?
2. A path to mastery
3. A learning loop

Interviewee: Amy Jo Kim (CEO, Game Thinking Academy)

Named by Fortune as one of the top 10 influential women in games, Amy Jo Kim is a social game designer, community architect, and startup coach. Her design credits include Rock Band, The Sims, eBay, Netflix, Covet Fashion, nytimes.com, Ultima Online, Happify and Pley. She pioneered the idea of applying game design to digital services, and is known for her book, Community Building on the Web (Peachpit, 2000). She holds a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington and a BA in Experimental Psychology. Amy Jo is passionate about helping entrepreneurs innovate faster and smarter; she teaches
Game Thinking at Stanford University and is an adjunct professor of Game Design at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)