What could happen if 8 people during the annual company convention tell 8 memorable, engaging and passionate stories? It is an indisputable and unprecedented success able to inspiring all the stage, more than two hundred people! All storytellers team has been trained through our weeks Impacting Stories program, improving storytelling skills and building their visual story, during various workshops and dedicated mentoring activities with FORTYTWO facilitators.

a2a is one of the biggest utilities company on Italian market. In a 2 week dedicated and personalised program company participants improved their skills to design and build company presentation through Memorable Presentation Canvas tool, exercises and continuous mentoring. Each of them was able to experiment on a real project the ability of the new tool to be able to build a different, captivating and impactful presentation.

People are an important investment, not only in cost terms. oneatatime® tool takes care of your people, respecting their work habits, adapting to everyone, following a path designed for changing them permanently. 20 people of Sella Leasing team, in 4 weeks time, learned how to plan their time ahead, have more energy, guide their emotions and govern their commitments. After a 8h workshop they started to experiment the new system with the help and support of FORTYTWO facilitators, also through dedicated personal interviews. At the end of the program, during the final meeting, participants shared their experience and the strategies and tactics they developed during the journey with their peers. We also demonstrate, through specific KPIs, the improvements of everyone.

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The only Advanced Business Model Workshop to know all the secrets to create value, innovate and attract through business models. One day classroom to discuss how to generate new proposals through the secret of business model canvas finding new deeper ways to work on it. 12 people coming from different experiences and sectors confronted with Ugo Mendes Donelli, the greatest Italian expert of business modelling, understanding different business case and developing new ways to build a strong and hard to copy model. Business model canvas is the essential tool to innovate!

A dream team of seven people working to overcome a huge challenge, innovate the main product of the business unit to increase sales for the company. We design a full 7 weeks innovation journey, observation - value ideation - test - pitching, involving team, sponsors and various stakeholders. FORTYTWO supported through workshops, mentoring and tutoring during all journey. Program has been held both in presence and on-line with the help of MURAL digital collaboration platform.

We managed, with a heterogeneous team of CA Assicurazioni & Vita, a four days program to discover, through our BEFORETHEIDEAS tool, how provides the knowledge and insights needed to start the innovation path with an analytical and scientific approach to innovation, in the assurance market. Teams learned also how to discover more more about the competition by revealing the gaps and potential opportunities, to do something different and turn the market upside down.

63% of the audience is able to remember facts based on storytelling and story presentations, while only 5% rely on other methods, a story can create a relationship by putting the audience at the center to achieve our goal. 20 people of AMUNDI sales team faced a 3 days training workshop on storytelling based on CAST methodology. We went through the full process: Content, Audience, Story and Test making a lot of business case and entering in customer’s business application. A great business story will stimulate your audience to take action and make the decision you want them to make!

10 weeks program with 10 project managers, 10 unique topics and a dynamic, immersive and flexible training way 100% on-line. A theme release per week with a group discussion with all participants to better understand and getting in depth the matter, trying also to face and solve company concrete and practical issues. A real new way to train people respective their time and company tasks!

3 teams and 15 people working to find a new way to generate innovation converting company’s offering and other values into cash. There are a lot of new opportunities to catch through sales innovation model, generally these kind of proposals are really sophisticated and deep and can change the entire destiny of a company. What we need to offer? What we need to charge? Every industry can be positive affected by sales innovation model!

Testing ideas and business assumptions is a key moment in an innovation journey program, to discover and validate new business model with real customers. Team members, after created their proposal, worked 2 weeks to build and execute tests to validate their ideas, using The Hero plan action board, based on lean experiments method. An exciting and challenging moment before launching all together designing presentation to be performed in front of the innovation board!

In June and July 2020, we organized a new online training format to keep people empowered, motivated and near their company. Starting from 42 TALKS program, we designed the Taylor made TIPS & TRICKS project for Agos Teams. What that is about? Launch a training topic on the platform, leave one week to participant to read flyers and see business case videos, organize a two hours call with everyone one week later, to discuss about the matter and practice on. A new way to learn something new with maximum flexibility and at the same time being close to colleagues and company.

The 25th of June 2020 we managed with 15 participants, the first Web Workshop of Disegno Brutto in giacca e cravatta, the most powerful visual thinking approach. The use of visual thinking combined with drawing stimulates creativity and allows you to develop disruptive and innovative ways of thinking. During the workshops everyone learned how to take notes in a meeting, to represent a process, to manage a meeting and also to design and solve a problem with drawing. Thanks to the power of drawing we can also easily rework contents, view the phases of a project or the nodes of a problem, stimulating creativity and improving communication and collaboration between colleagues.

The 18th of February 2020 Agos Innovation Community started again! A new format with 50 people, 10 teams and 10 challenge to overcome. A full day dedicated to celebrate the 2019 projects and proposals and to introduce new teams and challenges. Enthusiasm, emotions and desire to start over the new innovation journey. A program full of new contents largely based on The Hero Plan method and tools.

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During month of March 2020 we held a Web Workshop with Agos Innovation Community 2020 team members on oneatatime content, the only system than can improve productivity working on the body, emotions and mind of the people! More than 50 people participated to the 2 sessionS of the workshop, learning how to plan their time ahead, have more energy, guide their emotions and govern their commitments. Oneatatime consists in five different steps after the workshop to increase productivity, effectiveness and energy: homework week, one on one meetings, two weeks of homework again, final meeting and a retrospective meeting with follow up.

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We are well aware of the expected usefulness of a good, service or offer in general. But it is no longer enough. If we want to offer great value to our customers, we must venture out of the way and look for unexpected utility that can delight people. In this workshop participants learnt how to to recognize that there is something, somehow hidden, a little mysterious that can make our value proposition successful, difficult to copy and delicious.they also also learnt how to harness the absurd power of the worst possible ideas to seek an unexpected, unique and disruptive value.

After creating, testing and prototyping the new proposal, working also on a smart business plan, now is time to design a memorable and persuasive presentation for the company innovation board! Each team worked through a 4 steps method: know you audience, plan the journey, identify the bis idea, prepare the presentation to inspire attendees and move them to action. It is incredibly important to communicate a clear, consistent, and compelling message that the audience will remember.

The 25th October 2019, 25 managers of different companies in only one day workshop designed 5 new business through design thinking process of Business Innovation Design, a full system to innovate. Business Innovation Design seamlessly connects various disciplines in a framework tied by methods and tools. Every block consists of its own tools that gives decision-making clarity from various perspectives. Its modular approach enables the utilization of multiple processes designed for continuous innovation. Design thinking, lean startup, strategic foresight, business modeling, innovation management, business strategy, agile development. Business Innovation Design is the answer to business challenges that requires innovation.

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The 24th October 2019, Agos commercial partnership network team, attend to an idea generation workshop of one day to design the future of the company in five direct domains. 5 teams and more than 30 people creating actionable ideas to improve: sales representatives role, new products and services, processes, future of the company, risks & opportunities. In 8 intensive hours, teams created more than 200 structured, clustered e prioritised ideas to introduce to their management. We use during the workshop 5 idea generation tools: TREND+INSIGHT=IDEA, how what ideation, brain walking, idea clustering, voting by dot.

5 teams, 25 fighters working on 5 different challenges in one day workshop to design different and memorable proposals. A new format of The Hero Plan method that, in a record time, allow to overcome a business challenge starting from customer needs to value plan and business plan, through neuromarketing, lean strategy and gamification.

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Agos 2019 innovation community teams are ready now to work on numbers! Every great idea need to be supported by a credible, simple and smart business plan. Sales, costs, investments are the main topics on which it is necessary to concentrate. After one day session every teams were able to build an engaging business plan to be presented to innovation board of the company.

The 17th September 2019 Agos 2019 back-up innovation community worked to create new fresh ideas for best place to work company project. 17 people divided in five teams generated more than 50 executable ideas using the best idea generation tool like: for lenses of innovation, brain walking, idea clustering and voting by dot.

The last part of the innovation journey is started! The 11th September 2019 each innovation team has introduced the first draft of digital and physical prototype considering all the customer insights a validated ideas. Now they are ready to enter in the growth strategy step, working on metrics, business activities, partners and resources.

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The 27th June 2019 has been a great day for AGOS Innovation community. We introduced the design value part of Business Innovation Design® iteration. During all the month all the teams will work on creation, value proposition and evaluation, also starting to plan the prototyping phase choosing the best tool to use. An important challenge that will lead all the groups to the final steps of the project to deliver the final proposal to the innovation board of the company. The design thinking step is engaging everyone to enter deeply in each details of the new product/service considering the real customer needs.

“ My experience in the innovation team has been fantastic! Everyone should do it”. Alessandro Di Pace, AGOS

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The 9th May 2019 the AGOS Innovation community teams finished The Hero Plan program, each team presented their validated proposal to the company Innovation Lab and to The Chief Digital Transformation Officer Sergio Rossi. Everyone was impressed by the quality of the proposals and how every teams progressed in the various challenges. The Hero Plan method helped everyone to create a different and memorable proposal using gamification, neuromarketing and lean strategy.

“ I’m really impressed by the quality of you proposals, it is absolutely amazing to see how you improved and changed in such a short time”. Sergio Rossi, AGOS

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The 12th March 2019 the AGOS Innovation community worked on the value plan of their proposal through the gamified business model canvas of The Hero Plan method, a new engaging way to design a different and memorable proposal. After this stage all the teams will fully validate they proposal in a lean and cost-effective way to complete the DNA of their product or service. In the afternoon they discovered the most powerful and exciting visual thinking method, DISEGNO BRUTTO in giacca e cravatta, improving their communication skills and creativity approach. The workshop it was held by Alessandro Bonaccorsi, the inventor of DISEGNO BRUTTO and author of the best-seller “La via del Disegno Brutto”.

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The 27th March 2019 at Le village by Credit Agricole Milan, through Business Model Canvas method, 40 Credit Agricole Group managers have experienced how to systematically understand, design and differentiate a business model. We crossed the 9 blocks of Canvas, working on real business cases helping and each team to build a winning business model. With the Business Model Canvas, everyone has the opportunity to understand complex elements that affect the operation of an entire company, in a simple and extremely intuitive way. This happens because the canvas is based on a visual language that is quick to learn and accessible beyond the professional background: this allows maximum alignment between the people involved and, at the same time, represents the great communicative advantage of the Business Model Canvas.

Which is the role of a sponsor inside an innovation team? The 21 February 2019 the sponsors of 2019 AGOS innovation teams with company innovation lab & factory created the definition and the role of innovation team sponsor. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem-solving process in which participants are led through a series of questions, probing deeper and deeper into the subject. Each participant builds his or her own 3D LEGO® model in response to the facilitator´s questions using specially selected LEGO® elements. These 3D models serve as a basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving and decision making.

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The 5 and 6th February 2019 the 6 teams of 2019 Agos innovation community, started the innovation journey learning from the battle with The Hero Plan, a gamified and lean method to design different and memorable proposal through neuro-marketing. 2 intensive days in which all AGOS innovators practiced The Hero Plan method to be ready to apply it to their innovation challenge. The Hero Plan will help AGOS teams for next 12 weeks to be ready to introduce to the innovation board a DNA of a proposal fully validated. Become the protagonist of the classic hero and villain story with The Hero Plan and discover in first person how intuitive could be work on your business strategy, action plan and business model.

"Focus on a memorable difference that matters to your customers"
Ash Maurya, Running Lean

"The Hero Plan, a systematic and gamified lean method to design your strategy"
Alex Osterwalder, Business Model Generation

"Gamification to design strategy and business models. Awesome!"
Sergio Jimenez, Gamification World

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT?

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The 11th December 2018 we launched, in a dedicate kick-off, the 2019 AGOS innovation community. After a first on-boarding and recruiting phase among AGOS employees, now finally we are ready to start the 2019 innovation program. 30 new innovators will start an amazing journey creating the future of the company working to develop new products, service and proposals from idea to prototypes. We will help the new community and the company innovation lab during all 2019, through the most advanced innovative and engaging tools to design a new company. Workshops, seminars, mentoring meetings and calls, dedicated follow-ups and continuous alignment with AGOS innovation lab & sponsors to grant an outstanding result, presenting in December 2019 to innovation board of the company 6 killer proposal fully validated and prototyped ready to be executed.

The 23rd of October 2018 we organised at OPEN Milano, the Disegno Brutto in giacca e cravatta presentation, the most powerful visual thinking method, a new way to learn how to use drawing as a tool for creativity, communication and innovation. DISEGNO BRUTTO helps you develop your ideas by drawing badly and finding new points of view. It's called DISEGNO BRUTTO because it's not important to know how to draw well to communicate, it forces the observer's mind to add the parts of the design to interpret the traits and is therefore more engaging and immersive. Drawing helps to be more creative. You will learn to badly drawing with pride!

"Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. 

David Hockney

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The 10th of November of 2017 we organised at OPEN Milano,  the first LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Workshop about Innovation, a challenge to create new products & services. All participants were fully engaged and involved to envision, imagine and and create the future. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method through a structured problem solving process helped the team to create and shape the future of different business segment creating, in one day amazing projects. During the workshop everybody was part of in-depth discussions, which will give a detailed overview of the problem having clear and common understanding of the issues and how to solve them.

"Life is more fun if you play"

Roald Dahl

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We run, through The Hero Plan method, a 8 weeks of full innovation program for AGOS with 5 teams and 25 "fighters". The project started the second week of July with an extended workshop to share The Hero Plan culture and language and ended the end of September with the final presentation of all the projects to AGOS innovation board. It was an exciting journey! The different teams managed to create 5 memorable and validated proposal using neuro marketing, lean strategy and gamification. Through The Hero Plan it's easy and fun to create your killer strategy, following the hero's and innocent in danger's metaphor. Using gamification to design strategy and new business model is awesome!

"The innovation program is a really intensive and full of magic experience. We are fully engaged and FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS! Just great!"
Alessio Vasselli, AGOS.

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The 20th of June of 2017 we organised at OPEN Milano, with the help of our partner Stefano Selvini Coach the first LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Workshop about Leadership. We engaged and involved the team to build the new style of leadership. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem-solving process in which participants are led through a series of questions, probing deeper and deeper into the subject. Each participant builds his or her own 3D LEGO® model in response to the facilitator´s questions using specially selected LEGO® elements. These 3D models serve as a basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving and decision making.

"You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than in a life of discussion"

Plato

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The 30th of March 2017 we organized at Domus Academy of Milan the first the Hero Plan Workshop in Italy held directly by Daniel Vecino the best seller author of The Hero Plan Book. It was a great occasion to meet more than 25 customers working on a gamiified and lean adventure using a Battle Board and a story with Heroes and Villains going step by step all the way to the end design of a legendary proposal. 

"Focus on a memorable difference that matters to your customers"
Ash Maurya, Running Lean

"The Hero Plan, a systematic and gamified lean method to design your strategy"
Alex Osterwalder, Business Model Generation

"Gamification to design strategy and business models. Awesome!"
Sergio Jimenez, Gamification World

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT?

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The 7th March 2017 Daniel Vecino introduced in Italy, at OPEN Milano, the English version of The Hero Plan book prologued by Ash Maurya. The Hero Plan is a guide for your battle to find the killer strategy, a strategy that is focused, different and memorable. The Hero Plan book is a practical and real application of effective neuro-marketing, gamification and lean techniques.

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The 21-22 of October 2016 our team run the second Business Innovation Design Workshop in Italy. In less than 16 hours the teams built five new innovative business, leveraging on design as strategic driver for growth. Business Innovation Design can solve various critical business challenges in which innovation is the answer.

Good Design is good business!

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The 17th of March 2016 we organized with the support of Unicredit Start Lab and Domus Academy, the first workshop in Europe of Business Innovation Design with more than 35 participant from 9 Nationalities and the inventor of BID Jeffrey Tjendra. In one very intensive day people learnt how to identify the right problem to solve, design compelling products and services and build innovative business around the solutions.

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