Innovation and bureaucracy may seem like polar opposites, but companies like Spigit are working to bring them closer together. In the burgeoning world of gamification, it has been well-cited that Gartner predicts half of innovation-based companies will be gamified by 2015. Gartner released a case study on implementing a gamified enterprise solution for the United Kingdom’s…
Rypple is a software company with products aimed at making a better workplace. By using elements of gamification and positive motivation they have created innovative products that borrow elements of feedback from the game world. In the forums and chat windows of Massively Multiplayer Online games, players have occasionally compared their game experiences to the…
For centuries we’ve been exploring the thin line between fun and work. Many concepts have come and gone that played to this idea – from purely hedonistic options (dropping out) to pseudo-psychology (the secret), and everything in between. However, the two most compelling (and successful) models thus far for making work fun have been rather…
We all know the pain of watching the uninitiated perform seemingly simple tasks on computers. Without the shortcuts and time savers that have become second nature, watching others use the computer can be as painful as nails on a chalk-board. But even software “experts” often utilize only 10% of any given software, so no matter who you…
By 2015, 50% of companies that manage innovation and research will use gamification to drive innovation, according to a press release by Gartner. As gamification is just beginning and few public examples exist today, this finding means that the next four years are going to see rapid changes in management of the enterprise.
