Deloitte listed Gamification as one of its key tech trends in 2012. The talk about the anbility to solve business problems in game environments. There’s a video and a white paper. “Gamification allows for the more rapid solving of problems“.
Gamification isn’t a term you want to use in polite society. Serious game designers will laugh you out of the room. Appropriating the serious science of game design for use as a business buzz word is an affront to their work.
LinkedIn Feature: Because we’re involved with LinkedIn and their network on a daily basis it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. So all of our posts this week provide a venue to gain new perspective on this critical part of our business. We’d love to hear your reactions and ideas so please take a minute to comment on HRExaminer.com (or your social network of choice).
What makes most enterprise companies successful in the 21st Century is the degree to which they can create their own walled grade (ecosystem). The more robust the internal options, the better the deal for everyone involved. But, when you go into the LinkedIn garden, all you see is LinkedIn.
Enterprise Games – Merging of Video Games and Business Operations
This presentation will begin on November 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time.
Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time.
Webcast is on November 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Games and game mechanics provide as powerful a model for organizing knowledge and creative work as the assembly line once did for organizing industrial and repetitive work. In this webcast presented by Michael Hugos, author of Enterprise Games, we will explore game mechanics and how they provide a powerful set of field-tested techniques and technologies for organizing, motivating and managing work as well as play. Learn how the merger of games and business operations can deliver widespread prosperity for the real-time economy we now live in. Don’t miss this informative presentation.
The presence of fear in promotional tools is precisely the reason that cold calls and direct marketing approaches have such low rates of closing. When you reach out cold to a prospect, your batting average falls rapidly.
Mexico Is Now A Top Producer Of Engineers But Where Are The Jobs? “President Felipe Calder on last month boasted that Mexico graduates 130,000 engineers and technicians a year from universities and specialized high schools, more than Canada, Germany or even Brazil, which has nearly twice the population of Mexico.”
Buzzword laden HR language is out of control. John Sumser discusses the impacts in our feature post Buzzwords, Buzzwords Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink. Ed Newman drops in to talk about candidate experience and technology and Heather Bussing and John Sumser discuss the Privacy App.
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