Over the past thirty years or so, serious games, gaming and playful activities have come to occupy an important place in organizations. While this phenomenon is an ancient one, the use of games for serious purposes has become widespread over the last two centuries, and their development has been exponential, stimulated by that of information technologies. As a result, it has become necessary to understand the specificities of these games and play activities in order to innovate and create value within organizations. For this reason, this book aims to enlighten the reader on their variety, their specific features and what they can bring to an organization. Serious Games and Innovation Gains first uncovers the history of these kinds of games and play, their main characteristics and what they can bring in terms of a vision of the future. Above all, this book explores how these games and forms of play can be implemented, especially in areas such as progressive development, education, agility support, academic research, as well as military thinking, cyber defense or knowledge base building contexts.

Ce chapitre montre comment l'emploi de jeux permet d'effectuer des recherches appliquées. Il aborde plus particulièrement la question de l'apprentissage de l'échec à partir de deux jeux. Il y traite des aspects positifs et négatifs de l'apprentissage de l'échec sur les capacités intellectuelles individus, dont la gestion de la motivation et de la créativité. Il montre aussi comment des jeux permettent d'estimer ces capacités en situation de prise de risque, en proposant un protocole dédié.

Ce texte explore l’usage des jeux sérieux comme méthodes provocatrices en recherche. A partir d’une étude de cas détaillée de recherche par le jeu, les auteurs montrent comment le chercheur devient un agent provocateur qui influence les dynamiques étudiées, révélant des comportements autrement inaccessibles via des méthodes traditionnelles. Cette approche interdisciplinaire enrichit la recherche mais pose des défis en termes de validation des méthodes. Les jeux sérieux nécessitent des compétences variées et soulèvent d’importantes questions éthiques, notamment en ce qui concerne la protection des participants. En définitive, ils transforment la pratique de la recherche, favorisant une exploration plus créative et engagée des phénomènes sociaux.

De plus en plus d’entreprises recrutent scénaristes et designers en « design fiction », une méthode immersive mobilisant la science-fiction pour projeter de potentiels futurs. Comment les écoles et les universités s’adaptent-elles à cette tendance ?

The abrupt shift to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected students' emotional well-being and their relationship with pedagogical infrastructure. This study employed anthropomorphized letter writing as a narrative trigger to invite management students to write to elements of their educational environment. We examined 49 letters penned by international students, addressing entities such as classmates, classrooms, and online tools. Our findings illustrate that students reveal their emotions, reflect upon their interactions with these targets, and ultimately reconcile their relationships with these entities, navigating the emotional complexities associated with remote education through their nostalgic narratives. This research contributes to the literature on emotional aspects of management education, the self-help benefits of letter writing, and the adaptive functions of nostalgia, offering practical guidance for educators who aim to support students' emotional well-being and autonomy during pandemic-related challenges and beyond.

On avait dit : « pas sur le canapé ! » et puis le chien a gagné du terrain. Dans nos vies tout d’abord, c’est aujourd’hui près de 8 millions de chiens, qui vivent dans les foyers français. Beaucoup résident en zone urbaine, reniflant les trottoirs de villes qui peuvent aujourd’hui être reconnues « Dog Friendly » comme Nice, Montpellier ou Grenoble, en fonction de leur niveau d’adaptation aux canidés (fondé sur des critères tels que l’accessibilité, avec l’acceptation dans les transports en commun, la propreté, avec la mise à disposition de lieux dédiés ou l’engagement, avec un conseiller municipal dédié à « l’animal en ville »)

During the last decade, innovation failure has become a trendy societal topic with events in all major international cities such as Failcon during which entrepreneurs share their learning experiences. Failure has even a museum: the Museum of Failure in Sweden and its pop-up exhibitions worldwide. It presents more than 160 examples of products and services that did not succeed in finding their market from the “Thirsty Dog” mineral water to the “Rejuvenique” mask toning facial muscles with electricity. These examples illustrate the fact that “while organizations and individuals tend to focus on learning from success, research has shown that failure can yield crucial insights” (Dahlin, Chuang & Roulet, 2018). However, organizations are still reluctant to adopt a positive approach of failure and regularly reject novel ideas (Mueller, Melwani & Goncalo, 2012). The literature on failure is rich, dedicated mostly to “post portem” analysis in order to identify the reasons of failure (Mueller, 2012), the emotions post-failure (Shepherd, Patzelt & Wolfe, 2011) or the learning process that occurred (Dahlin, Chuang & Roulet, 2018). Could this post mortem analysis help failed projects finally Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) and the creative individuals move forward?