IN TWO AND A HALF HOURS WE DEVELOPED A FULL IOT CONCEPT TOGETHER WITH END-USERS, DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS. NORMALLY THIS TAKES US HALF A YEAR AND THEN WE WOULDN’T EVEN HAVE INVOLVED PEOPLE FROM THE TARGET GROUP YET.
Mobile and sensor technologies offer great opportunities, yet turning these means into solutions that are relevant for people is not self-evident. Therefore we believe in co-creating the Internet of Things (IoT) by facilitating multi-disciplinary workshops. We aim to ideate meaningful and innovative IoT solutions together with end-users and members of your organization.
The workshops are carefully designed based on proven facilitation methodologies. There can be chosen out of several workshop packages, the packages can be ordered separately or can be combined. Although our off the shelf workshop packages are applicable in many situations, we also design custom workshops according to the wishes of your organization and the amount of participants.
Each workshop package is designed with a certain goal in mind and leads to different insights. A complete workshop consists of the Starter, Intermediate and Advanced Package, which together contain six steps and have a duration of two and a half hours. During this process a full IoT concept is co-created and among others insights in end-user requirements are gained.
During this half hour workshop package one or more scenarios are collectively build by means of an interaction card technique. During this workshop several real world cases are evaluated and discussed. The resulting scenarios provide insights in the needs and wishes of end-users and are generally used as a starting point for further ideation.
Interactions between people and things can take place in a wide variety of ranges (PAN, LAN, Wan). Understanding and visualizing these interactions is not easy. With the intermediate package the intangible is made tangible by means of a co-creation toolkit. In one and a half hours a full IoT concept is build and a wide variety of insights are gained.
In our advanced packages we elaborate about existing IoT concepts or IoT concepts build by means of our intermediate package. We facilitate a half hour workshop process around communication between people and things (graphical user interfaces), selling IoT solutions (business models) or privacy and security issues (legal constraints).
Do you have a specific workshop idea in mind and the default workshop packages are not covering your needs and wishes? Order a custom workshop package! We design a totally new workshop according to your situation, stakeholders and preferences. The experience and effect of the workshop is evaluated on forehand in a pilot session.
Are you interested in the co-create the Internet of Things workshop methodology and toolkit and do you want to learn how to facilitate these workshops yourself? We also offer trainings in which we teach how to facilitate co-creation workshops according to proven methods.
WITH OUR WORKSHOPS WE STRIVE FOR
EFFICIENCY
With our default workshop packages a full IoT concept can be co-created within two and a half hours.
INTERACTION
A meaningful scenario and interaction is defined based on the experiences of end-user priorities.
REQUIREMENTS
During the workshop insight in needs and wishes of end-users are gained in order to prioritize requirements.
SMART
Collectively build a tangible IoT network including objects and sensors on a map of the city of your choice.
DATA
Analyze how things communicate to each other and gain insights in data types by visualizing the data flow between smart objects.
ENGAGEMENT
End-users are involved from the beginning, they gain a sense of ownership and have the potential of becoming ambassadors.
GUI
Sketched wireframes of graphical user interfaces for mobile, tablet or desktop that visualize communication between people and things.
STAKEHOLDERS
Managers, researchers, designers, developers and end-users bond over co-creation and collaboratively shape the future.
& WE WILL TAKE IT FROM THERE
Are you interested in one of our workshop packages or do you want us to design a custom workshop for you? Please don’t hesitate to contact us! When you contact us we send you an email back to plan an intake meeting. After the meeting we will send you an open-ended offer specified to your needs.
Even if you order one of our default workshop packages we can customize certain elements for you. If you want something completely different we can design a totally new workshop according to your preferences. When the design is finished we contact you to plan an optional pilot session.
After the design is complete we facilitate your multi-stakeholder workshop. On request we also capture and analyze the workshop data and translate the user-insights in a rich visual and textual document. This workshop summary can be used to communicate the insights to your management, research, design or development team.