Flying Fish

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Flying Fish

• Manan Relia
• Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union

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Introduction

• PEFCU has believed in the Fish philosophy since
  2000. Our employees can send each other a Flying
  Fish if someone makes their day. The main
  principles of this philosophy are
• Play
• Make Their Day
• Be There
• Choose your Attitude

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Introduction

• For almost 4 years PEFCU used to print paper
  fish and the employees would use that to send it
  to each other.
• Since the PEFCU portal was so widely used and
  convenient, we decided to build our own
  electronic version of the Flying Fish. We
  started working on this project in May of 2004
  and after 1 week of development and testing we
  went live with Flying Fish on June 1, 2004.

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Rationale and Objectives

• In the non-electronic version of the Flying Fish
  employees who received a fish from another
  employee could turn in that fish to HR and be
  eligible for a drawing. This drawing was very
  hard to co-ordinate.
• This lead to a discussion of building an
  electronic version where everything would be
  stored electronically on a database.

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Rationale and Objectives

• Sending a fish was a not very user-friendly
  process, the sender would have to handwrite their
  comments and put it in an inter-office envelope
  to send it.
• This lead to a discussion of building an
  electronic version where everything would be
  stored on a database and sent electronically.

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Features and Functionality

• Users can pick from 10 different kinds of fish to
  send.
• All they have to do is pick the user they want to
  send their fish too and type a message.
• The recipient will get a portal message saying
  that they had received a Flying Fish.
• Fish are stored by the month they were received.
  Users can go back and look at any older fish they
  received.

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Features and Functionality

• On the 1st day of the month, winners are randomly
  picked for the previous month and an email is
  sent to HR to approve the winners.
• 3 recipients and 1 sender are picked each month
  as winners.
• If for some reason one of the winners is not
  appropriate HR can re-generate new winners by
  just clicking a button.
• Winners and their messages are posted on a public
  page.

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Conclusion

• PEFCU spent about 750 a year in printing the
  paper fish.
• This new electronic version has virtually no
  costs.
• Since June 1, 2004 over 1700 fish have been sent
  by employees.

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