The future of technology in the workplace is constantly evolving. By educating your employees and preparing your company for technological trends, you can ensure that your company remains up-to-date on the latest tools that will improve employees’ productivity, efficiency, and collaboration.

1. Emerging Trends in
Business Technology
Presented By: Aciron Consulting, LLC

2. The Future of Workplace Technology
• The future of technology in the workplace is constantly evolving
• By educating your employees and preparing your company for
technological trends, you can ensure that your company remains up-to-
date on the latest tools that will improve employees’:
– Productivity
– Efficiency
– Collaboration

3. 3 Emerging Trends
• It is up to your company’s technology leaders to implement the right
tools, technologies , and business processes to improve performance
by leveraging emerging business trends
• 3 trends that are shaping the future of workplace technology are:
– Mobile adoption
– Experiment-driven decision-making
– Business process automation

4. Going Mobile
• The 40-hour work week is also a thing of the past²:
– Average time full-time employees in the US work in a week is 47
hours
– 50% of employees working more than the standard 40 hours
– 18% working 60 hours or more
• Much of this can be attributed
to the rise in mobile
connectivity
2. Statistics from: http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-longer-seven-hours.aspx

5. Going Mobile
• Telecommuting tools like Skype and other video conferencing
software facilitate an employee’s ability to work from outside of the
office
• This rise in remote employees means that
your IT network and technology plan must
allow for employees to work from
anywhere

6. Going Mobile
• Now, this does not mean you have to compromise
security
• There are many tools available on the marketplace
that safely allow employee access from mobile
devices and remote locations
– such as Cisco’s AnyConnect VPN Client

7. Experiment-Driven Decisions
• Experiment-driven decisions are made based on data collected by
testing and retesting different variables to determine the optimal
way to position yourself in order to generate the best results
• Variables may include:
– Word choice
– Design
– Layout
– Timing
– Colors

8. Experiment-Driven Decisions
• Experiment-driven decisions are enabled by software that
allows for real-time change and adaptation
– Example: Optimizely
• This allows marketers to implement campaigns where they
will see improvements now, not in a year from now like
with traditional methods

9. Experiment-Driven Decisions
• Innovation does not happen by sticking with your
initial idea and playing it safe
• By taking chances with your experiments and
trying new things, you will foster innovation
within your organization and see real results
• These experiments will not only help overall
company growth and performance, but it will also
help your employees grow in their positions as
they learn best practices for their work

10. Business Process Automation
• Business process automation:
– Involves leveraging technology to transform
and streamline a manual process so that it
becomes more cost and time-efficient
• Example: Filing documents
– Moves all physical documents and related
workflows from filing cabinets to one
centralized, web-based system

11. Business Process Automation
• Business process automation is possible now
more than ever due to the technical
knowhow of the incoming workforce:
– Nearly 87% of American adults now use
the Internet
• Up from 14% in 1995
– 74% of Millennials feel that new
technology makes their lives easier

12. Business Process Automation
• Employees are not only increasingly
comfortable using technology, but they are also
starting to expect to use technology to make
their lives easier
• Adopting business process automation will help
you attract, and keep, millennial employees,
and will increase their productivity and
efficiency

13. Conclusion
Mobile adoption, experiment-driven decision-
making, and business process automation are
three trends are becoming essential tools and
strategies for companies to adopt to thrive in
the future.

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