GAwards: Best Use of Gamification in the Enterprise (HR)

MindTickle is SaaS gamification platform for social and collaborative learning. MindTickle enables businesses, trainers and individuals to transform their existing online content (PPTs, Videos, documents) into an interactive learning experience. MindTickle engages the learner and makes learning efficient, effective and delightful through a unique combination of game mechanics (points, medals, badges and leaderboard) and social tools (profiles, comments, chat and walls). The platform has been widely adopted by several Fortune 500 customers with 15K+ users.

MindTickle's platform has been used for several use cases ranging from new hire orientation, culture/values training, product/sales training, policy/compliance training, customer training, call center agent training for businesses to teaching high school mathematics and for conducting online workshops to teach gamification.

Deloitte Leadership Academy is an innovative digital executive training program for more than 10,000 senior executives at over 150 companies around the world, added Badgeville’s gamification and reputation solution to reward participation, lesson progression, and to certify program completion with an optional diploma.

Deloitte Leadership Academy delivers lessons and insight from some of the world’s best known business schools, such as Harvard Business Publishing and IMD, and global leaders in an easy to consume format via their online portal, newsletter, and mobile access. Badgeville’s dynamic behavior management technology enables Deloitte to measure, surface and reward engagement across this online education platform.

Bluewolf has incentivized their employees to go social. In other words, they’ve gamified enterprise knowledge-sharing by through gamification. Today, their employees are earning points and rewards for internal and external collaboration. A few examples of how people can earn points:

Replying to a Chatter post

Sharing a piece of content to their Twittersphere or LinkedIn community - all from within Salesforce

Publishing a blog post on their site: www.bluewolf.com

Earning a 50+ level Klout score

Yammer, the leading provider of enterprise social networks, partnered with Badgeville to launch Badgeville for Yammer. With this integration, companies can enhance employee performance by leveraging Badgeville to reward high-value user behaviors across the enterprise, and showcase them in the Yammer Ticker, a real-time activity stream.

EMC integrated the Badgeville gamification engine into their Jive community to recognize, award and motivate our community members for their participation. The company launched project R.A.M.P (Reputation, Awards, and Motivation Program) at their largest company event, EMC World, in Las Vegas. According to the company, so far the results have been nothing short of outstanding. Preliminary results suggest more members are interested in completing and viewing the profile as well as an increase of 25% in reply to discussions.

Gamification in Jive's Social Enterprise Software accelerates the adoption and engagement needed to make your community a success. A built-in reward system encourages participation and incents community members to actively engage. he more you engage, the more rewards you reap. Users see who liked your reply, bookmarked your blog post, or commented on your insight. Jive gives you, your co-workers, and your customers an easy way to see achievements, status, rank, and the most followed users. From team competitions to individual achievement, the Jive Gamification Module helps fuel engagement.

Bunchball's "Nitro for Salesforce" engages and motivates sales teams by adding gamification - challenges, points, levels, status, achievements, and rewards - to Salesforce.com. Bunchball won the AppQuest 2011 award for Best New Salesforce Application with this new product.

Contact center software for the enterprise and virtual call center outsourcing with at-home agents for inbound and outbound calls.

Keas is a website that employees use in the workplace. They get points, badges and achievements for completing tasks, and support their coworkers in their achieving their goals. People don’t cheat because they don’t want to hurt their reputation.

RedCritter is pioneering the use of game mechanics in the workplace. By incorporating game theory, we incent team members, increase productivity and improve performance…and make work a heck of a lot more fun! Their flagship product, RedCritter Tracker is the only gamified project management tool with a specific use for Agile development. Team members unlock badges throughout the development process, and earn points for completing challenging tasks, which can be redeemed in their company’s virtual store. When it comes to business…it’s game on!