maybe im too video game brained but had an idea on our all hands:
What if you gamified KPIs: set a bunch of small, medium and longterm goals and map them to a level-up system.
Total users, revenue could be individual skills that you level up from 1 to 99
Everyone within the company could see the entire dashboard in realtime
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Since WoW I gamify almost everything I do.
Delete this
As an individual competitive thing that could get in the way of teamwork.
As a company together though we used to do this.
Refine your top measures down until there is only 4-5 as "the measures that matter".
Then set all targets and chart all progress against this, score all issues against it to win a spot in sprint, and pay all incentives (or buy nice dinners for everyone) when achieved.
We once shared our office with a co who did the same thing with project milestones, so for them it was "the milestones that matter". "Ship this by eoy and we're all going to Bali."
was thinking about this the other day too. could you have AI help you build a video game interface for solving the real world things that accomplish those KPI goals too?
video game as the interface for tackling coding, social media, etc
kinda like Ender's Game (spoiler alert)
It's not enough to enslave them; you have to make the wretch enjoy being a slave and even fight amongst themselves to provide performance metrics for the executioner.
Thanks
Wut
Interesting
It works with the right people, and doesnt with the others.
You have to have affinity to it.
Its like negative feedback fires some people even more up, and demotivates a bunch of others.
So for the right people, thats cool.
We made a reviewer of the month scoring in my company. That is fun!
But does not move everyone.
right i was thinking company-wide not individualized.
Can you also get a flower that makes you shoot fireballs? If so, am now motivated.
this would be company wide, not per person
Isn't this what OKRs were supposed to be?
maybe, never used those
The company sets objectives with set of easily measurable key results, e.g. We want to increase our reach. With key results like. Started 5 large ad campaigns. Max concurrent users grown bei 10%. etc (so it is easy check if results are met). These should be stretch goals.
Then every team formulates their own OKRs so they contribute to the company wide ones. This can be done down to the individual level. All transparent for everybody to see.
In theory. Every company Inworked for that had some version of OKRs or tried to introduce them did some half measure (mostly because management at its core didn't like the idea uf self-organization and wanted to introduce some form of control back) and ended up with a non-functioning beraucratic overhead. so take my view with a grain of salt
Gamify it baby
our team is so small. the team level is the company level, so this would be the same idea i guess
oh cool, i have been building that idea as a notedeck app sourced from nostr data. sounds like im on the right track
ok i bought Measure What Matters to see what the big deal is all about
exploring this idea... starting to think it could be really useful
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92 is half of 99
maxing your company would be legendary
i've always wanted AR with life running like runescape with XPs and stuff
yeah its a good idea
would give me more urgency atleast
i often do try to take POV that oh, if this was a video game and you were solving for the main character game theory optimal, what would you do
kinda way
except the real world is infinitely more complex and is pay to win
yup, funny how people find it so difficult to accept that the game is rigged
like, either figure out how to change the game, figure out how to win and cheat the game, or just shut up
I also would recommend "How to measure anything" by hubbard(?) i think
this is not okr related
not sure if there's such company exists at least not mine nor any in my industry.
human resourcing from my observation is an art of mind manipulation and gaming in a asymmetrical system.
would like to witness any company doing so though
You might find this one interesting. My favorite idea in the book is an "in game currency" that you need to spend to book meetings 😄
cool thanks, will check it out
