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What we do: We Build Ideas From Thought to Profit.

Social Gaming 4 Health, Wellness and Productivity

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Level Up Your Life

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EpicWin is a Mobile Task App  With a Gaming Twist

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It has all of the major Role Playing Game elements.

Questing Finding Loot Leveling Up

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How Does this Apply to Health, Wellness and Productivity?

• Tasks Reflect Company Health & Wellness Goals.

• Takes advantage of social trends to encourage adoption and participation.

• Uses existing portable devices.• Action Oriented Tasks Increase

Productivity.• Bite size tasks build habits that

steer employees into the  company green zone.

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And,• This game relies on a REAL

task list.

• You participate by getting things done.

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Each Task can be categorized into one of 5 character criteria: • Strength • Stamina• Intellect• Social• Spirit.

As you level up, your title changes.

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What Makes EpicWin a Success?

Socialize, Share and Interact.

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Creating a Fun Delivery Mechanism for the Wellness Program.

• Existing devices that are common in today's work place • Adding an application to deliver the wellness program

 • Incorporating fun into an otherwise dry topic

 • Using a hybrid, social gaming, task approach

 • Tasks that build habits & and achieve wellness goals

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Changing the Management & Reporting Paradigm

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Re-Think Data Collection & Reporting

• A picture is worth a thousand words and at least a few numbers.

• The pie chart and pictures are quick and powerful communicators.

• Why limit organization to only activities that can be measured quantitatively?

• What is really important to measure?

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Create a Company Wall of Epic-ness!

• Create a company portrait of employees and Avatars.

• Make the Company Wall a dynamic web page that displays updated information.

• Which gives users motivation to post.

• Create a Group Calendar of Tasks that syncs with the company.

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Data Visualization Tool for Management

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The Value of 100 TOEs:Tasks of Epicness

• Create 100 Tasks of varying difficulty that encourage wellness goals.

• Get tasks endorsed.• Create  shared calendar with

tasks• Reward those who

complete/conquer.• Iterate tasks to books and

other media channels.

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What Else Can I do?

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Summary: EpicWin is Just One Example

•  A fun game that plays with real life; with practical implications and social tie-ins.

• Creates and changes habits through tasks • A way to take advantage of what's out there• Discover a formula for opportunity• Allows us re-think data collection & reporting

goals• Remember, A picture is worth a thousand

words and at least a few numbers.

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There is a huge opportunity to be the resource that provides the 

practice and process.

Using EpicWin,and other tools like it, we can Level Up Life & Work across teams, departments and entire organizations! 

Conclusion

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