sascha goto

Guiding Gamification Through Management with Sascha Goto

Sometimes when you want to gamify in a large organization, the hoops and hurdles you need to surpass may seem daunting. Sascha Goto is an Senior IT Manager at McKinsey who was able to successfully implement his own low-tech gamified system and was able to share some wisdom for us all on how we might approach doing the same thing.

He joined us on our weekly Gamification Revolution webshow with Gabe Zichermann and talked about:

  • Implementing gamification for IT management
  • Getting employees to participate with gamification systems on their own time
  • Demonstrating success with products
  • How to get approval for gamification
  • The effect of competition in an organization
  • Using low-tech proofs of concept

Watch the full interview below and catch this week’s special double-guest episode on gamifying loyalty with Maritz’ Barry Kirk and Bill Hennessey this Thursday at 1 PM ET.



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The Zombie Technology Elimination Project: Gamifying The Destruction of Old Software

Zombie Technologies are real. If you’re a software developer, a Zombie Technology (ZT) is that old technology you used long ago to create yesterday’s awesome solutions. Yesterday’s glory is a memory, yet the product lives on and it’s using a ZT.

I am leading an internal employee engagement enhancement project to make the conversion of old zombie technologies to new technologies more fun and more likely! Normally the conversion process is inherently behind the scenes and painful. In Mary Poppins style, a spoonful of zombies helps the work go down.

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Playing Cyber War Games to Detect Security Flaws in Enterprise

It isn’t penetration testing—when companies employ “white hat” hacks to identify technical vulnerabilities. A cyber war game is based around a real-life business scenario (ex. Hackers attempting to access customer databases). As cyber security is everyone’s responsibility, information security employees to marketers and legal advisers work together to respond to the real-life scenario. These war games can help expose…

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