Via: Gartner Inc - Analysts Explore the Role of Enterprise Architects in Gamification at Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011, May 9-10, London, and June 22-23 in San Diego
"Where games traditionally model the real world, organizations must now take the opportunity for their real world to emulate games. Enterprise architects must be ready to contribute to gamification strategy formulation and should try at least one gaming exercise as part of their enterprise context planning efforts this year”, says the Gartner report.
According to Gartner research, using gamification business models in consumer services and applications can dramatically increase user engagement levels and improve revenue. Adding in these game mechanisms will add interactivity and challenge, giving the user motivation to participate.
"Gamification is an emerging business and societal trend with an extraordinarily broad reach across innovation. Gamification’s potential to change human behavior makes it a trend to watch.”
The report concludes that gamification in marketing and customer retention programs will be as important as online services like Facebook, eBay, and Amazon. It says over 70 percent of Global 2000-ranked organizations will have at least one gamified application, and points to programs such as Idea Street, created by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. and recruitment game America's Army as early examples of organizations adopting gamification.
"Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Gartner analyst Brian Burke.
"Enterprise architects, CIOs and IT planners must be aware of, and lead, the business trend of gamification, educate their business counterparts and collaborate in the evaluation of opportunities within the organization."
Egham, UK, April 12, 2011— By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods marketing and customer retention will become as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon, and more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application.
"Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Brian Burke, an analyst at Gartner. "Enterprise architects, CIOs and IT planners must be aware of, and lead, the business trend of gamification, educate their business counterparts and collaborate in the evaluation of opportunities within the organization."
For example, the U.K.'s Department for Work and Pensions created an innovation game called Idea Street to decentralize innovation and generate ideas from its 120,000 people across the organization. Idea Street is a social collaboration platform with the addition of game mechanics, including points, leader boards and a "buzz index." Within the first 18 months, Idea Street had approximately 4,500 users and had generated 1,400 ideas, 63 of which had gone forward to implementation. Further examples include the U.S. military's "America's Army" video-game recruiting tool, and the World Bank-sponsored Evoke game which crowdsources ideas from players globally to solve social challenges.
1. Accelerated feedback cycles. In the real world, feedback loops are slow (e.g., annual performance appraisals) with long periods between milestones. Gamification increases the velocity of feedback loops to maintain engagement.
2. Clear goals and rules of play. In the real world, where goals are fuzzy and rules selectively applied, gamification provides clear goals and well-defined rules of play to ensure players feel empowered to achieve goals.
3. A compelling narrative. While real-world activities are rarely compelling, gamification builds a narrative that engages players to participate and achieve the goals of the activity.
4. Tasks that are challenging but achievable. While there is no shortage of challenges in the real world, they tend to be large and long-term. Gamification provides many short-term, achievable goals to maintain engagement.
Gartner analysts will further explore the impact of gamification on enterprise architecture (EA) at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011, taking place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London, on May 9-10, and June 22-23 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego in San Diego. Over two days, the Summit will help EA leaders to demonstrate EA value, articulate program goals and broaden the EA sphere of influence both inside and outside the business.
"Where games traditionally model the real world, organizations must now take the opportunity for their real world to emulate games. Enterprise architects must be ready to contribute to gamification strategy formulation and should try at least one gaming exercise as part of their enterprise context planning efforts this year”, says the Gartner report.
Catching up on last week’s headlines, April 12 Gartner Research released a report stating, as opposed to Forrester analysts, that half of all organizations which 'manage innovation processes' will gamify those processes by 2015.
According to Gartner research, using gamification business models in consumer services and applications can dramatically increase user engagement levels and improve revenue. Adding in these game mechanisms will add interactivity and challenge, giving the user motivation to participate.
"Gamification is an emerging business and societal trend with an extraordinarily broad reach across innovation. Gamification’s potential to change human behavior makes it a trend to watch.”
The report concludes that gamification in marketing and customer retention programs will be as important as online services like Facebook, eBay, and Amazon. It says over 70 percent of Global 2000-ranked organizations will have at least one gamified application, and points to programs such as Idea Street, created by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. and recruitment game America's Army as early examples of organizations adopting gamification.
Idea Street is an online ideas-management platform that encourages employees to share their innovative ideas for change with a community of likeminded colleagues, and work with those colleagues to help make their ideas a reality.
"Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Gartner analyst Brian Burke.
"Enterprise architects, CIOs and IT planners must be aware of, and lead, the business trend of gamification, educate their business counterparts and collaborate in the evaluation of opportunities within the organization."
This message shall be further explored at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011, May 9-10, in London, in the keynote session Architecting Fun: How Gamification Is Changing the Enterprise.
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Gartner Says By 2015, More Than 50 Percent of Organizations That Manage Innovation Processes Will Gamify Those Processes
Egham, UK, April 12, 2011— By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods marketing and customer retention will become as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon, and more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application.
"Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Brian Burke, an analyst at Gartner. "Enterprise architects, CIOs and IT planners must be aware of, and lead, the business trend of gamification, educate their business counterparts and collaborate in the evaluation of opportunities within the organization."
For example, the U.K.'s Department for Work and Pensions created an innovation game called Idea Street to decentralize innovation and generate ideas from its 120,000 people across the organization. Idea Street is a social collaboration platform with the addition of game mechanics, including points, leader boards and a "buzz index." Within the first 18 months, Idea Street had approximately 4,500 users and had generated 1,400 ideas, 63 of which had gone forward to implementation. Further examples include the U.S. military's "America's Army" video-game recruiting tool, and the World Bank-sponsored Evoke game which crowdsources ideas from players globally to solve social challenges.
The goals of gamification are to achieve higher levels of engagement, change behaviors and stimulate innovation. The opportunities for businesses are great – from having more engaged customers, to crowdsourcing innovation or improving employee performance. Gartner identified four principal means of driving engagement using gamification:
1. Accelerated feedback cycles. In the real world, feedback loops are slow (e.g., annual performance appraisals) with long periods between milestones. Gamification increases the velocity of feedback loops to maintain engagement.
2. Clear goals and rules of play. In the real world, where goals are fuzzy and rules selectively applied, gamification provides clear goals and well-defined rules of play to ensure players feel empowered to achieve goals.
3. A compelling narrative. While real-world activities are rarely compelling, gamification builds a narrative that engages players to participate and achieve the goals of the activity.
4. Tasks that are challenging but achievable. While there is no shortage of challenges in the real world, they tend to be large and long-term. Gamification provides many short-term, achievable goals to maintain engagement.
"Where games traditionally model the real world, organizations must now take the opportunity for their real world to emulate games," said Mr. Burke. "Enterprise architects must be ready to contribute to gamification strategy formulation and should try at least one gaming exercise as part of their enterprise context planning efforts this year."
About Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011
Gartner analysts will further explore the impact of gamification on enterprise architecture (EA) at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011, taking place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London, on May 9-10, and June 22-23 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego in San Diego. Over two days, the Summit will help EA leaders to demonstrate EA value, articulate program goals and broaden the EA sphere of influence both inside and outside the business.