What's Your GAME Plan

ComEd, National Grid and other utilities use analytics to get consumers to compete with neighbors and encourage whole towns to conserve -- and earn rewards.

The open source gamification software tracks game elements (badges, points, tags) for work pages or apps and provides a framework for providing awards/points to users or teams.

According to a Forbes contributor, gamification is defined as taking the essence of games - attributes such as engagement, transparency, design, and competition - and applying them to a range of real-world processes inside an

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has launched a new program this fall, called the Goodman Impress program, that lets students earn points for taking part in career-building extracurricular activities.

Making work into a game has its share of critics. So is this a practice worth keeping?

What if you approached your life like a video game, treating your tasks as monsters to be battled and your daily goals as quests? That's the idea behind HabitRPG, a site and community designed to be a role playing game for your to-do list.

Is gamification the key to an engaged workforce? Gaming guru An Coppens thinks so, but there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid if you are to win the game.

ST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2014) - The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) has announced the recent publication of a white paper on Gamification Done Right - The Do's and Don'ts. The paper offers 10 crucial tips on how organizations can design more successful game-based programs. Since research firm Gartner,...