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Gamification and its Business Implications

In 2002, a British programmer and inventor, Nick Pelling coined the term gamification in which the advent gaming concepts are introduced in real life to achieve better user interface design amongst electronic transactions. Up to the year 2011, the gamification is not popular until Gartner realized the advantages of gamification and introduced the concept into his Hype Cycle list.

Gartner, a  leading IT research organization, has predicted that more than 50 percent of the organization will be replaced with gamification in the future and will be implemented in almost every part of the life cycle.

In recent years, design features captured through gamification has bought notable changes in the field of academia as well as industry. However, due to the dearth in comprehensive understanding and lack of resources has made gamification to fail. 

This limitation is overcome through the latest gaming design strategies comprising simple mechanics such as leaderboards, points, and badges

>Read the complete article: Gamification Tied to Business Needs

Automation is the Key to Better Patient Care

Automation has become an integral part of daily life and a necessity for carrying out different processes across various industries including healthcare. Automation acts as the silver bullet for health care providers, who often face seemingly inconsistent demands with regard to cost reductions, efficient service to patients, and improved quality of care. 

It’s important for healthcare providers to ensure that their services run smoothly and that they aren’t compromising the patient experience to achieve it, and one way to ensure that is to automate daily processes such as administering non-intravenous medications, data collection, reading radiological scans, and more such complex activities. 

Automation would save time by carrying out repetitive tasks, reduce labor costs, increase precision and reduce errors—making it possible to acquire real-time data thereby enabling to provide improved diagnosis and allowing healthcare professionals to focus on other core processes. 

For instance, appointment reminder systems like JustReminIt and TeleVox automate the process of reminding patients about their appointments. Instead of calling each patient, these systems automatically remind people of their upcoming schedules or remind them of their missed ones; through customized messages

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Transparency in Banking Transactions through Blockchain

The banking industry has seen huge innovations in recent years with the use of technology. To satisfy the demands of the customers, banks are looking for new ways to interact with them and provide better customer satisfaction. Blockchain technology is changing the process of banking along with the concept of game theory to meet customer needs.

Baking as a Service (Baas) is an innovative concept that takes the customer experience to a new level. It has no any restrictions like traditional banking. In today’s era, customers are in need of anywhere anytime transactions, beyond the regular working hours of the banks. 

There is a need for open collaboration since customers are looking for a more open network and shared technologies. Collaboration and consolidation is the key to BaaS. This flexibility of the BaaS model will enable banks to integrate blockchain solutions to solve the issues in the banking sector.

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The Future of Manufacturing Automation

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remote communication, automation is gaining stature in the manufacturing space. The usage of both AI and remote communication is slated to rise dramatically in the forthcoming years. 

In general, automation can be defined as taking rote tasks and designing a system that entirely performs the tasks automatically.

For example, the automation process is efficiently used in pharmaceutical manufacturing units where an automated system is used to dispense a given amount of powdered chemical. This enables numerous benefits that include mechanical precision and consistency, provides better safety, and decreased operating expenses. 

Full article: Manufacturing Automation Future

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The trend of making services customer-oriented is a direct result of rising demands among customers for better services, and the best way for banks to achieve it is through the use of analytics. Technology is the most crucial aspect of the digital age, but so are the customers and their changing expectations on service providers. Improved customer services enhance business opportunities and increase brand value, due to which banks are prioritizing it.  

Under the traditional approach, banks collected customer information to build databases that could be used to disburse services. Now, customer data has become easily accessible, and analytics solutions are empowering banks to leverage the data for improving customer services.

The use of analytics in the banking sector is not new. Several processes are already using data analytics solutions to hike the efficiency of operations across departments. However, the potential of analytics in improving customer service is incredibly high, making it an indispensable tool for banks. The following list throws light on the factors which make analytics important for CIOs in their quest to help banks improve customer service.

• Handling Vast Data Volumes Effectively

There are several constraints when it comes to handling analytics through traditional approaches. With the exponential rise in the amount of customer data available with banks, manual analytics is out of the question now. Advanced data analytics solutions are equipped...

How to melt gold at room temperature

When the tension rises, unexpected things can happen – not least when it comes to gold atoms. Researchers from, among others, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now managed, for the first time, to make the surface of a gold object melt at room temperature.

Ludvig de Knoop, from Chalmers’ Department of Physics, placed a small piece of gold in an electron microscope. Observing it at the highest level of magnification and increasing the electric field step-by-step to extremely high levels, he was interested to see how it influenced the gold atoms.

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