Study: Business Success May Depend on Gaming Skill

[Fredo]

Trouvé dans les annonces officielles des forums de City of Heroes/Villains :

GameDaily is reporting on a new study done by IBM and Seriosity. From their coverage:

The leaders of tomorrow may be the hardcore gamers of today, especially players of MMORPGs. IBM has teamed with Seriosity on a new study, which found that many of the skills developed from playing online are similar to those needed for corporate leadership roles.

Vous pouvez lire l'article de GameDailyBiz ici.

Et la publication complète de 34 pages : Leadership In Games (PDF).

So you've leveled up your elf warrior, organized multiple clans, and become a true hero in a virtual world. Now it's time to take those skills to the real world. According to a new study by IBM and Palo Alto, CA-based Seriosity, gaming skills and online role playing skills in particular are actually becoming more and more important to the next generation of corporate leaders.

The study suggests that there are "significant parallels" between the skill sets of MMO players and those of effective leaders in the distributed, global workforce. For example, IBM and Seriosity state that "today's gamers are learning collaboration, self-organization, risk taking, openness, influence, and how to earn incentives linked to performance and be flexible in the way they communicate."

"What we've found is that success as a business leader may depend on skills as a gamer," commented Jim Spohrer, Director of Services Research, IBM Research Center in Almaden, CA. "Smart organizations are recognizing valued employees who play online games and apply their skills and experiences as virtual leaders to their 'real world' jobs."

The study cites several key features of the online gaming world that businesses might look to as they cultivate corporate leaders:

* Incentive structures that motivate workers immediately and longer term

* Virtual economies that create a marketplace for information and collaboration

* Transparency of performance and capabilities

* Recognition for achievements

* Visibility into networks of communication across an organization

Seriosity has taken these lessons to heart and created a program called Attent. The software is inspired by multiplayer games and "creates a virtual economy for enterprise collaboration and a solution to information overload."

"This research has validated Seriosity's solutions for creating a platform to transform the business world. The research proves that online games have valuable lessons for success in business," said Ken Ross, CEO of Seriosity. "Seriosity's solutions provide the physical link to bridge the virtual and business worlds."

"If you want to see what business leadership may look like in three to five years, look at what's happening in online games," concluded Byron Reeves, Ph.D., the Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford University and Co-founder of Seriosity.

by James Brightman

[Yozz]

Who said IBM was boring?

[William White]

Ces même gens doivent penser que les petits leaders dans les cours de récré seront les PDG de demain: collaboration, self-organization, risk taking, openness, influence, and how to earn incentives linked to performance and be flexible in the way they communicate, mêmes qualités.

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Ces même gens doivent penser que les petits leaders dans les cours de récré seront les PDG de demain: collaboration, self-organization, risk taking, openness, influence, and how to earn incentives linked to performance and be flexible in the way they communicate, mêmes qualités.

Oui c'est juste une question de vocabulaire pour du bon sens de base statuant que les individus les plus malins et les plus tenaces réussissent mieux dans la vie que les glandeurs débiles. C'est pas de la recherche qu'on pourrait qualifier de "earth-shattering"…

[Yozz]

Ces même gens doivent penser que les petits leaders dans les cours de récré seront les PDG de demain: collaboration, self-organization, risk taking, openness, influence, and how to earn incentives linked to performance and be flexible in the way they communicate, mêmes qualités.

Hormis Influence, je ne vois aucune de ces qualités chez un petit chef de cour de récré.

[William White]

Hormis Influence, je ne vois aucune de ces qualités chez un petit chef de cour de récré.

Bah heu si quand même, moi ça me paraît évident: les meneurs sont plus dans l'action, la réflexion et la prise de risque que les suiveurs.

[Rincevent]

Bah heu si quand même, moi ça me paraît évident: les meneurs sont plus dans l'action, la réflexion et la prise de risque que les suiveurs.

Action et prise de risque, c'est certain. Quant à la réflexion, dans une cour de récré, elle est moins chez les chefs de bande que chez les petits nerds isolés.

[Yozz]

Bah heu si quand même, moi ça me paraît évident: les meneurs sont plus dans l'action, la réflexion et la prise de risque que les suiveurs.

Même commentaire que Rincevent. Et ça fait toujours "collaboration, self-organization, openness, and how to earn incentives linked to performance and be flexible in the way they communicte" qui manquent…