What online systems have you seen that ultimately drive behavior change?For example, there are solutions out there like:
What do these systems do that leads to behavior change?
- http://www.sparkpeople.com/
- http://www.jennycraig.com/
- http://yogaonline.corepoweryoga.com/
- http://poweroftwomarriage.com
Going back through my own writing/thoughts, it's remained fairly consistent over the years. In Data Driven, I said:
If you want to really improve the numbers via a performance improvement initiative then you need to start and end with the data.
This solution relies heavily on humans to push each other to ultimately change behavior. Using data as a means of assessing how you are doing from an action and results standpoint is an important aspect.
This is reinforced by Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact where I used the responses to a monthly Big Question to arrive at the following as the basis for driving behavior change:
- Guide through setting meaningful personal goals
- Teach how you can hold yourself accountable to those goals
- Help the user set up social support
- Teach the social supporters how they can help hold the personal accountable
- Send lots of reminders to the individual and the supporters
Most of the behavior change strategies, however, boil down to the following three “levers”:
- Increase the number of triggers leading to the desirable behavior.
- Enhance ability to perform the behavior (make it easier to do)
- Amplify motivation for doing the behavior with intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.
- Design For Behavior Change
- It's All About Behavior Change
- BJ Fogg A Methodology for Designing Behavior Change
Please contribute and I will post back more on this.