Make Business and Innovation Fun: benefits, approaches, examples

The Fun Factor in Business

Make people excited about the job

and the company

Fun has become a big element in the business design of many creative and highly successful businesses.

What made you, as a virtuous entrepreneur, go into business and succeed in the first place?

Was it fun and passion?

Similarly, if you lose your passion or drive you're going to lose business. Nourish your passion and make fun an integral part of your business.

Coaching by Example
InnoBall and ChEduFuntion

VadiK

Inventor
Author
Founder

InnoBall (Innovation Brainball)

InnoBall entrepreneurial simulation game enhances intellectual teamwork and helps player develop various intrapreneurial thinking skills, such as anticipation of challenges ahead, creative problem solving and turning challenges to opportunities. KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools (10 KITT) make idea generation, knowledge sharing and intellectual teamwork fun. Fast idea assessment techniques make selection of the most promising ideas easy.

Innompic Games

It was fun that made the 1st World Innompic Games a huge success. We not only invented how to turn the Earth into a Planet of Loving Creators, but also organized some just-for-fun activities.

ChEduFuntion

Challenge-based Edication + Fun + Action

ChEduFuntion is a trademark Innompic way of making accelerated learning of innopreneurial arts and skills A-Z/360 a reality.

Innovation must be fun

How important Is fun to innovation? Humor and fun at work are no longer optional, but critical to building an inspiring and engaging workplace which drives innovation and team performance.

Many innovative companies adopted fun as one of their core values or guiding principles to lighten things up.

Work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun.

Larry Page

Google

Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, Russian entrepreneur

I never want things to be dull...

I like to make fun of serious matters.

Pavel Durov

I never did a day's work in my life.
It was all fun.

Thomas Edison

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. Make business fun!

Jack Welch

"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves"
~ Herman Cain

"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert
Einstein

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

Pranks and play became second nature in IDEO. They gave people a sense that they had some control over their destiny.

Tom Kelley

IDEO

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

	Example: Roofland – kingdom design Rooflanders combine wisdom and fun. To guide their kingdom, they formulated their value mantra "Fresh Air, Joy, Freedom" To design their lives, Rooflanders formulated three shared values, expressed as KoRe proverbs: "Fresh air grows fresh minds." "Joy shared is strength multiplied." "Freedom begins where fear ends."
	Roofland and Its Playful President Karlson – Movie Synopsis

Make Your Customers Laugh

Why would people want buy from you if they don't enjoy doing so? Making what you have to sell fun to buy is simply taking the whole process one step further.

"If you can make your customers laugh, and excite them with your vision of what life can be, they are not going to walk into your outlets, but run into them. Running a successful business should be fun for you, and there's every reason why you should be able to communicate that sense of fun to your customers. Certainly, if you aren't having fun, you probably aren't running a successful business," say James Essinger and Helen Wylie in their book The Seven Deadly Skills of Competing.