Tag Archive for: motivation

Let Their Lives Flourish – Essentials Of Enterprise Gamification

Our CEO and gamification guru Jukka Koskenkanto talked about…

What Can Jesus Teach Us About Gamification?

Christmas is right around the corner and it will halt the entire western at least for a while. Our thoughts are with our loved ones and we think about ways to contribute to our community. Religiously speaking, the central character of Christmas is of course Jesus. To honor the spirit of Christmas, I aim to examine in this blog post, what Jesus would say about gamification. That man knew how to tell compelling, thought-provoking stories. I’m not going to emphasize the religious aspects of the following story, as the story itself is brilliant and can be used to introduce a nontraditional viewpoint on gamification.

Motivate People Through Data

"Gamification is about motivating people through data." Above all gamification is about how you can use game elements to affect people’s behavior. In other words, how you can motivate people to act according to the set goals. Data is needed because a) data is the only reliable source to find out what behaviors need to be changed to reach the goals and b) making data transparent is an effective way to motivate.

Information Worker Has a Lot to Learn But Never Enough Time

It's impossible to separate learning from work in today's world. Studying isn't anymore a strictly defined part of life, which precedes working life. Especially in information work, executing tasks successfully requires constant learning and adoption of new things, because the problems at hand seldom are similar in content or even by nature.

Only Used Information Systems Are Productive

In order to make the information system as useful as possible and into active use, one must take into consideration the different motivation factors of different user types. This has to be done both when taking the system into use and when the system is in production use. With the help of different game elements the use of, for example, intranet can be merged into a motivating and meaningful part of user's every-day work tasks.