Patent ID: 8244567

Claim:
A method for providing business goal incentives using gaming rewards, the method comprising: storing information in memory in a business goal table that contains a listing of various business goals, the information regarding business goals; defining the business goals as business tasks and thresholds associated with the business tasks; associating the business goals with virtual gaming rewards, the virtual gaming rewards are non-tangible rewards received in an electronic game, the virtual gaming rewards selected from a group consisting of virtual titles, virtual abilities, and virtual powers; associating the virtual gaming rewards with participants who achieve particular business goals; receiving at a server task data from a reporting device, the task data indicating participant progress in performance of the business task associated with the business goal; determining that the task data meets the threshold associated with the business goal, the determination taking place at the server; assigning the virtual gaming reward associated with the business goal to the participant upon the determination that the task data meets the threshold associated with the business goal, the assignment taking place at the server; generating a report concerning the virtual gaming reward assigned to the participant; generating a metric based on the task data; and determining that the task data meets the threshold comprises comparing the metric to the threshold, the task data concerning performance of a plurality of business tasks by a plurality of participants and a portion of the task data is compared to a second threshold.