ENCOURAGING PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR AN ORGANIZATION

• US 20130013326A1
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: MILLER, Garrett F., KUMAR, Janaki P., STONE, Jeremiah E., ARENT, Michael A., LONGWORTH, Alys M., MARCUS, Aaron, WIGHAM, Laurie, THOMAS, Rebecca L., Dumpert, Jennifer A.
• Application Number:
  US13/273,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20130013326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system and method for developing trust in an organization supported tracking system by ensuring that resources in a resource library are collected from trusted sources, and encouraging and tracking participation in organization supported activities designed to achieve a long term goal of the organization. Resources may be submitted by organization members and ranked according to multiple factors including the trustworthiness of the source, the relevance of the resource to the long term goal, or the response of the organization members to the resource. Participation may be encouraged through friendly competition, awards granted for participation, and publication of member accomplishments. Tracking may be facilitated by allowing members to create initiatives and actions related to the long term goal which members may follow and join and then tracking and verifying member participation in those initiatives and actions.

Claims

1. A system for encouraging participation in organization supported activities comprising:

a memory for storing organization membership information and organization supported activity information; and

a processor configured to receive a participation notification indicating that an organization member has participated in an organization supported activity, to disburse an award to the member for the participation, and to record the award disbursement in said memory;

wherein said activity is designed to encourage organization member participation in an activity that supports a long-term goal of the organization.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to publish said award disbursement to organization members.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said publishing comprises transmitting an email message describing the award disbursement to organization members.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein said publishing comprises posting a notification message describing the award disbursement at a system related webpage.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein said publishing comprises posting a comment describing the award disbursement in an activity related news feed.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to publish a leaderboard listing the members of the organization in order of accrued awards.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said award includes a number of points earned for the participation.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein a member redeems accumulated points for a reward offered by the organization.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the rewards include goods and services offered by the organization to encourage participation in the organization supported activities.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein points are redeemable for a reward only when the member has accumulated a total number of points above a predetermined threshold.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to publish the participation notification in an activity related news feed.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to publish said participation notification in an organization related news feed.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to determine if the disbursement of an award to the organization member is approved before disbursing the award.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured to receive a verification that the organization member participated in the initiative associated action.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said verification includes a photo of the organization member participating in the initiative associated action.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein said verification includes an attendance list received from an initiative associated action moderator.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein said verification includes the results of a competition.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein said processor is further configured to disburse an additional award upon receipt of the verification.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein said activity is a competition.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein a member that wins the competition receives a bigger award than the other members that participated in the competition.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein said activity is a team based competition.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein members of a team that wins the competition receives a bigger award than members of other teams that participated in the competition.

23. A computer implemented method for encouraging participation in organization supported activities comprising:

receiving at a processor a participation notification indicating that an organization member has participated in an organization supported activity;

disbursing an award to the member for the participation; and

recording the award disbursement in a non-transitory memory;

wherein organization membership information and organization supported activity information are stored in the memory; and

wherein said activity is designed to encourage organization member participation in an activity that supports a long-term goal of the organization.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising publishing said award disbursement to organization members.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising publishing a leaderboard listing the members of the organization in order of accumulated award totals.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein said award includes a number of points earned for the participation.

27. The method of claim 23, further comprising offering a reward to the member in exchange for redemption of awarded points.

28. The method of claim 23, further comprising publishing the participation notification.

29. The method of claim 23, further comprising determining if the disbursement of an award to the organization member is approved before disbursing the award.

30. The method of claim 23, further comprising receiving at the processor a verification that the organization member participated in the initiative associated action.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising disbursing an additional award upon receipt of the verification.

32. The method of claim 23, wherein said activity is a competition.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein an award disbursed to a member that won the competition is bigger than an award disbursed the other members that participated in the competition.

34. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform a method comprising:

upon receiving a participation notification indicating that an organization member has participated in an organization supported activity, disbursing an award to the member for the participation; and

recording the award disbursement in a non-transitory memory;

wherein organization membership information and organization supported activity information are stored in the memory; and

wherein said activity is designed to encourage organization member participation in an activity that supports a long-term goal of the organization.