SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GAMIFICATION OF BUSINESS PROCESSES

• US 20140162220A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Quest 2 Excel, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Quest 2 Excel, Inc.
• Inventors: RAO, Mahesh C., HOFFMAN, Andrew Jay, Hunter, Marcello Rufus, Shough, David E.
• Application Number:
  US13/711,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20140162220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/107
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/18 Book-keeping or economics

Abstract

A system combines project management, learning management, and content management in an augmented reality game. Significant business objectives correspond to “Quests” where a Quest includes Missions and Tasks. In the augmented reality game, individual employees are scored for individual Tasks in a game in which individuals can compare their point standing with other players.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor and a memory; and

a gamification engine to manage business processes, including at least project management processes, as augmented reality games in which members of an organization are selected to be players of games in which a quest corresponds to a major business process, a mission corresponds to a phase of a quest, and each mission includes at least one task, the augmented reality game including game scoring of tasks.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the gamification engine manages learning within an organization by having learning events managed as part of the augmented reality game as tasks.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the gamification engine includes a quest creation module, a quest assignment module, a quest tracking and participation module, a quest scoring module, and a rewards and recognition module.

4. The system of claim 1, where the system further comprises:

a project management engine;

a learning management engine; and

a content management engine;

wherein the augmented reality game is integrated with project management, learning management, and content management.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein individual players are provided options for selecting or rejecting tasks in a mission with individual missions having individual point counts.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface for a consultant to provide new quests into the system.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface for a manager to create and manage quests.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein each task includes a scoring rubric.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one scoring rubric includes at least one criterion related to quality.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein leader boards are generated based on the scores of tasks performed by individual players.

11. The system of claim 1 in combination with a web server to interface with at least one networked client device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the augmented reality game provides motivation for sociable business behaviors within an enterprise.

13. A method of gamification of project management and learning management, comprising:

generating a gamification library to gamify business processes, the gamification library including templates and model quests, missions, tasks, and rubrics for scoring tasks, in which a quest corresponds to a major business process, a mission corresponds to a phase of a quest, and each mission includes at least one task; and

providing access to a choreographer to adapt and edit the templates and models in the gamification library to generate a new quest to gamify a new business process.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising a taxonomy of quests and resources, wherein external libraries of resources are incorporated into the taxonomy.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving independently authored quests.

16. A method of gamification of project management and learning management, comprising:

receiving access to a gamification library to gamify business processes, the gamification library including templates and model quests, missions, tasks, and rubrics for scoring tasks, in which a quest corresponds to a major business process, a mission corresponds to a phase of a quest, and each mission includes at least one task; and

adapting and editing the templates and models in the gamification library to generate a new quest to gamify a new business process.

17. A method, comprising:

generating an augmented reality game in which members of an organization are selected to be players of games in which a quest corresponds to a major business process including at least project management, a mission corresponds to a phase of a quest, and each mission includes at least one task, the augmented reality game including game scoring of tasks.

18. The method of claim 17, where at least one task includes a learning activity such that the business process includes learning management.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the method includes creating a new quest, assigning players to a quest, tracking of the status of participation in the quest, scoring players, and providing rewards and recognitions for players.

20. The method of claim 17, where the method further comprises integrating the augmented reality game with:

project management;

learning management; and

content management.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein individual players are provided options for selecting or rejecting tasks in a mission with individual missions having individual point counts.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing a user interface for a consultant to provide new quests.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein each task includes a scoring rubric.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein at least one scoring rubric includes at least one criterion related to quality.

25. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating leader boards based on the scores of tasks performed by individual players.

26. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing access to the augmented reality game to at least one client device via a networked connection.

27. A system, comprising:

at least one processor and a memory;

a gamification engine to manage business processes, including at least learning management processes, as augmented reality games in which members of an organization are selected to be players of games in which a quest corresponds to a major business process having a learning component, a mission corresponds to a phase of a quest, and each mission includes at least one task, the augmented reality game including game scoring of tasks; and

a content storage repository and an interface to receive content from third party providers based on a taxonomy of learning content mirroring a taxonomy of the tasks;

wherein a business learning process is gamified and content from third party providers is provided that is compatible with the business learning process.