Doing Business in Real Time

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The global economy has a life of its own, it lives in real-time, and we are all part of it. Hello brave new world.

Michael Hugos

Business Agility is a Serious Game

|   Something unexpected happens when companies combine the use of three types of systems: business process management (BPM); business intelligence (BI); and interactive simulation systems. It creates something larger than the sum of its parts - something agile.

Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Business Collaboration Platforms

|   Massively multiplayer online role playing games are pushing the envelope in technology and player engagement. They point the way to business collaboration platforms in the not too distant future.

Pilots, Soldiers and Surgeons Play Serious Games

|   What do pilots, soldiers and surgeons have in common? Answer: They all work in professions where the cost of failure can be severe. And because of this, they are three professions that make heavy use of interactive simulations and what are known as “serious games”.

Are Geeks Different?

|   Are IT people different from other people in business? Are we geeks? Is that good or bad? The age old question of whether IT people are different from other people in a company becomes more important now that IT is integral to everything a company does from marketing to HR.

Feedback in the Real-Time Economy [Why Games Matter]

|   Video games provide effective and field tested operating models for harnessing the power of feedback loops to succeed in our real-time economy.

Games Could Make Work Flow

|   Using games and game dynamics might be as powerful a model for organizing knowledge work as the assembly line was for organizing industrial work.

A Novel Encounter with Big Data

|   In this age of analytics and big data we focus on the speed of the computer and the size of the attached storage but we’re overlooking the most critical element – it's still the human mind that turns data into actionable information.

Games, Gamers and New Business Strategy

|   We’re hearing talk about something called “gamification” as a way of increasing engagement with our company websites and “serious games” as a way to provide training in real business skills. And we hear about massively multiplayer online role-playing games or “MMOs” to promote...

A New Way to Visualize Big Data

|   Big data is a real-time ocean of data flowing around us. It comes from social media, e-commerce, financial exchanges, supply chains, streaming video, twitter and the clickstream of two billion (soon to be four billion) people. We need a whole new way of engaging with this data.

Wow This is Going to Be Interesting

|   Maybe this is a new generation’s time to lead. The last time a generation turned out to protest and get the people in charge to change course was 40 years ago. Is this just a passing fad or does it have staying power?

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