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Illustration for: What drives users to stay engaged with location-based games and build real-world communities?

Key question

What drives users to stay engaged with location-based games and build real-world communities?

Gamification for Community Building: Click to Shake Hands
Al Thani, Aoun, Vatanasakdakul · PACIS · 2025

Operations & Supply Chain

What it means for you
  • CIO / IT Executive Allocate budget to pilot a location-based gamified application in one of our company's facilities, specifically focusing on fostering cross-departmental collaboration by integrating 'location incentives' for shared project spaces.
  • IT Manager Schedule a meeting with your development team to discuss how to integrate elements like 'reward value' and 'achievement' into our existing internal communication platform to encourage more active participation and knowledge sharing.
  • Business Strategist Initiate a brainstorming session with your marketing and product teams to identify opportunities to leverage 'network influence' and 'herd behavior' in upcoming product launches or community outreach initiatives, perhaps by creating exclusive early-access groups.
  • Researcher Refine the survey instrument to include questions specifically measuring 'sense of belonging' and 'social motive' as distinct constructs, and prepare to recruit participants from diverse community groups for your next study.
  • Policymaker Direct your staff to research successful public policy initiatives that have used location-based incentives or gamification to encourage citizen engagement with local services or community events, and identify potential applications for our jurisdiction.
Illustration for: How can teams track and manage project success throughout agile software sprints instead of only at the end?

Key question

How can teams track and manage project success throughout agile software sprints instead of only at the end?

Success Management and Scrum for IS Projects – An Integrated Approach
Takagi, Varajão · PACIS · 2021

Operations & Supply Chain

What it means for you
  • CIO / IT Executive Mandate the integration of explicit success factors and KPIs into the Sprint Planning templates across all ongoing Scrum software development projects to eliminate delayed project evaluations.
  • IT Manager Instruct your Scrum teams to incorporate continuous success factor monitoring as a standard checkpoint item during every Daily Scrum inspection.
  • Business Strategist Join the upcoming Sprint Reviews to actively participate in the newly established success evaluations, stakeholder reporting, and corrective action planning.
  • Researcher Analyze the ongoing software development case study data to measure how embedding success management activities into Scrum events impacts overall IS project failure rates.
  • Policymaker Update organizational IT governance standards to require iterative success evaluations and corrective action planning during Sprint Reviews for all publicly funded information systems projects.