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  • Gamification of the enterprise

    Posted September 10, 2012 - 8:23 pm

    Can badges and scoreboards really make employees work harder, for no extra pay? Or will IT departments be stuck spending time and money "gamifying" work processes - only to have to undo everything once the fad has run its course?

  • Top 4 gamification apps

    Posted September 10, 2012 - 8:22 pm

    Companies should not attempt to jump into gamification all at once. Here are four specific applications that are excellent places to start your gamification program.

  • Competition, games can bring about enterprise app advances

    Posted June 7, 2012 - 5:00 pm

    Back in 2006, Jim Lavoie, president of Rite Solutions, a Defense Department software contractor, wanted his employees to play a more active role in innovating new ideas. But he knew a top-down approach from management ordering such behavior wouldn't work. "Organizations that are smart enough to ask employees for ideas know that the best approach is to do it in a fun way," he says. "If it's not fun, it's work; and if it's work, it sucks."

  • For CIOs, the games are just beginning

    Posted June 4, 2012 - 3:13 pm

    Today, companies are starting to use common video-game techniques such as points, badges and leader boards to make their websites more interactive and to reward people for their contributions. But this is only the start of the inevitable merging of games and business.

  • Gamification driving corporate sustainability initiatives

    Posted March 20, 2012 - 7:20 am

    Gamification could be the key to driving sustainability strategies within organisations, by encouraging employees to engage in social competition with each other, rather than seeing corporate environmental initiatives as a chore.
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