Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business - Softcover

Michael Hugos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491017082 ISBN 13: 9781491017081

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

For the last 100 years the assembly line has been the dominant model for organizing business operations. But now high rates of change and the unpredictable nature of our real-time global economy calls for something more flexible and responsive. Games offer field-tested methods and models for people to organize and focus their actions and continuously learn and succeed in fast-paced and unpredictable environments. See pragmatic examples of how to use game mechanics to improve business operations from sales to supply chain management. Get ideas you can use in your own company. It's not a game, it's the future of work!

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About the Author

MICHAEL HUGOS is an author, speaker, award-winning CIO and principal at Center for Systems Innovation [c4si]. His work combines IT and business agility with systems thinking and game theory to redesign and reinvigorate business operations. He has advised and mentored development teams at Microsoft Xbox, Starbucks Coffee Company, U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command and numerous smaller companies. Previously he was CIO of a North American distribution organization where he developed a suite of supply chain systems that transformed the company's operations and revenue model. For this work he won the CIO 100 Award, the InformationWeek 500 Award and the Premier 100 Award. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management with a major in finance. He is author of eight books and his newest book is Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business. He can be reached via his website

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491017082
• ISBN 13: 9781491017081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214