Goalous is used and loved as the best in-house, open SNS for goal-achievement.　It is a powerful tool that draws fulfillment of objectives by letting everyone in the team know the following: the goals of the teams and the members belong to them, the visions and the tasks of the organization, and what the members do and think. These days, Goalous is steadily being spread in companies and organizations.

Today, we visited one of those companies, WitOne Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo) It is a company with immense trust as a group of professionals who provide overall assistance service required for gaming service operation from offline content to smartphone games. We had an interview with Mr. Fujiwara, Tomohiro, CEO, and Mr. Tomura, Yoshihiro, Project Headquarters General Manager They told us that the following problems were solved by the installment of Goalous: unsatisfactory communication habits among new staff whose number rapidly increased.Miscellaneous personnel evaluation work Isolation between staff working on the sites of other companies.

The true value of Goalous is in the fact that it enables each team and member to set their own goals and let everyone share them. Just like everyone knows everyone's profile, they also know the goals everyone has set.

“For example, let's say one person has read a book related to marketing as an action towards a goal he set. And he can make a post with the picture of that book and share opinions such as 'This book was quite helpful.' Then another person can “Like“ the post and show reaction such as “I will read it too.“ By exchanging comments, one person's passion is passed to another, and eventually, to the team.“ (Mr. Tomura)

The more each staff uses it, the more team competence will be improved. Also, they said these communications brought them unexpected positive results.

“The staff started organizing seminars on their own. In the fields, there are ones who are specialized in specific fields and techniques. It would be nice if we could have an opportunity to share the know-how. When we were talking like this, some staff proposed to hold a seminar.” They made posts as such on Goalous: 'Mr. A from team X will hold an in-house seminar at XXX. If you want to join, leave a comment here.' Such events have been held anywhere since then. (Mr. Tomura)

“Honestly, I am surprised. Since our company deals with games, the people working also like games. For such people, it is often not so easy to speak out or making appeals, but on Goalous, they actively make funny and attractive posts telling 'we're now working on this!'For example, we have some e-sports teams, and these started from the communications on Goalous.” (Mr. Fujiwara)

“We use Goalous for making announcements of drinking parties and club activities, and therefore, it is quite easy for them to make posts on Goalous. When notifying a seminar, sending out e-mails is a little too much. “I think for them, Goalous is a daily communication opportunity to so it is easy for them to make announcements.” (Mr. Tomura)

As seen, Goalous is exhibiting extreme performance in motivating employees and pushing toward goals; on the other hand, seen from the other side, another visionary can be observed.

“The fact that you can see all staffs' goals and actions toward them means you can immediately evaluate the work of each staff with what's seen. There's nothing more that can make managers happy.” (Mr, Fujiwara)

Usually, individual objectives, namely goals are decided over interviews with the supervisor. Then organizing them in an excel sheet, pass it around related persons, check it, and hold another interview and keep them as a lead in evaluation. I guess there are a lot of organizations that spend time on these duties.

“By using Goalous evaluation function, you can see everyone's Goal and Action, or in other words, objectives and procedures, and therefore, you can evaluate everyone's work at once. You can easily see the status such as whose evaluation is done or not, mistakes and overlapping is greatly reduced. Also, even if there's a minus factor in the Actions, you can see the overall picture and therefore you can make a fair evaluation without being too dragged by a single mistake. Some people suddenly start working hard right before the evaluation period, but, these “cheatings” are easily seen (laughter). To be honest, this was the best factor I got interested in before installing Goalous.” (Mr. Fujiwara)

　Also, the companies deal with various businesses often find it difficult to have one common purpose. In such a situation, Goalous exhibits its capability.

“Actually, we dispatch employees to various companies. One-fifth of the whole member is working outside of the company. Such staff needs to stay in the clients' sites, and their relationships with the company tend to be poor. However, by getting in touch on Goalous, they realize that they're one of WitOne members at any time. I recommend any organization with an issue in connecting the whole organization to install Goalous.” (Mr. Tomura)

A rabbit runs fast but occasionally has a nap. A turtle walks slow but steady. There are many characters in an organization. Instead of competing, working hard together toward each Goal set by each; this will make everyone happy. Goalous