This document discusses strategies for implementing a digital workplace. It notes that while technology has advanced, the way many people work has not changed much in recent decades. However, factors like new generations entering the workforce, an emphasis on work-life balance and measuring productivity over presence are driving changes. The document outlines a methodology for developing a digital workplace strategy through defining personas, scenarios and activities before selecting technologies, physical and virtual workspaces. It provides examples of new activity-based digital workspaces and notes benefits like improved collaboration, productivity and staff wellbeing. A phased approach to implementation is proposed starting with pilot projects to test solutions before broader rollout.
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Digital Workplace Strategy Basis
1. Basis for a Digital
Workplace Strategy
Antonio CICCARELLI– EFSA
ICTAC Meeting
13-14 October 2016, Alicante
2. Before Starting: A Bit of Semantic
New World Of Work
Digital Workplace
Social
Collaboration Unified Comm. & Collab.
Crowdsourcing
Engagement Wellbeing
Personal
Productivity
Activity Based
Workspace Talent attraction
Smart Working
3. New World Of Work initiatives in the EU
• Synergies and Efficiencies in the EC - New Ways of Working
• DIGIT strategic priority 2 - Create the Digital Workplace of the Future
• ECHA - New Way of Working
• EIB – BEi Smart, A Better Way of Working
• EASA – Smart Working approach for the new building
• EFSA – New World of Work
Gov
Sector
• Smart Working, GOV/UK
• Senaatti (Senate Properties), Finland
• Smart Work Association, Estonia
and a lot more in the private sector….
EU Institution
4. Did we really change the way we work ?
Despite all the social and technological changes, the way we work did not change to
much in the past decades
• An office phone, a desktop, a machine on the desktop and a lot of paper
• Type of office space and furniture still related to hierarchical position
5. The way we will work will never be the same as it was before
Physical
Technology
Cultural
Cross-disciplines, cross-generational
The way we work is going to be disrupted
6. • Start-up and Big Tech model adoption
• “Millennials” entering in the organization
• Crowdsourcing catching on
• Wellbeing, work-life balance
• Manage by outcome, not by presence
Work takes place at the most effective
locations and the most effective time
Cultural Changing Factors
7. • Activity Based Working
• Well-being elements are the norm
• Companies willing to adopt the new norm also as
cost efficiency
Re-imagine the office as space to be
allocated to activities, not to people
Physical Space Changing Factors
8. • IT infrastructure de-materializing and leaving the office
and the DC
• Application seamless access inside and outside the office
• Consumerization + Millennials
Re-define your IT roadmap to include the
Digital Workplace enabling factors
(see more details in the focus slides)
Digital Workplace Changing Factors
9. How to take everything into account - Methodology
Personas Collaboration
Scenarios
supported by
Activity Based
Tech Solution
Physical Environment Virtual Environment
Prioritization
and
Selection
selected scenarios
composed by
mapped to
Working Styles Activities
Activity Based
Workspace
integration
related to
supported by
10. Large spaces supporting
plenary activities
Meetings room for (in)-formal
meetings with colleagues
New Activity Based Digital Workspaces
Personal work with limited
interaction with others
11. Benefits/KPIsSolution Capabilities
Seamless connectivity in the
building
Follow-me Printing
Improve connectivity while in
mobility
New Enterprise Social network
Cloud Office
Implement open meeting spaces
Improve Unified Comm. & Collab.
Create activity/based spaces
Prepare training and policies
Foster innovation and
openness
Nurture collaboration and
creativeness
Engagement, agility,
productivity
Speed-up decision making
Staff wellbeing,
work/life balance
Reduce removal costs
Reduce toner/paper costs
Reduce travel costs
Reduce IT services costs
Implemented
Pilots
To be
implemented
Intangible
Tangible
Measuring Benefits and KPIs
Reduce email exchange
General use of laptop and tablets
12. Global Concept
Project
Charter
Program or
Portfolio
Management
Pilot Project
1
Pilot Project
2
Pilot Project
n
Global Concept defined
Business Case assessed
Identify
and start
Pilot Projects
Envisioning phase
approval
Project 1
Project 2
Project n
Implementation phase
Extend successful pilots
to all the organization
A
A
B
C
Cost elements
Lessons learnt
Envisoning, Piloting and Planning
There are a lot of acronyms today that may confuse us about the existence of different trends, different initiatives, their real objectives and finally their usefulness.
The reality is that the way we worked in the last 150 years is changing and the society, companies and organizations are answering in different ways and directions to this force. Main acronyms today used are:
NWOW: New Way of Working or New World of Work. It is the larger term encompassing all the different dimensions of the change, including the physical space complete re-design as well as psychological and social aspects as wellbeing, crowdsourcing, employee engagement, millennials entering the workforce and talent attraction and retention.
Digital Workplace: used by Gartner to address several initiatives related to ICT innovation aspects enabling the NWOW, including cultural and governance aspects (e.g., unified communication, social collaboration, personal productivity).
Between this 2 main terms, there are several other terms addressing single aspects of the change going on as well as hybrid compositions of them. Some examples are:
Smart Working: alias for the NWOW, used by the GOV/UK to address the government initiative to spread the new way of working in the public service.
Digital Workspace: used by Gartner and others to indicate the sum of the Digital Workplace (mainly ICT enabling factors) and the new physical (Activity Based) Workspaces, including well-being and engagement factors.
Unified Workspace: used by Gartner to address the sum of Unified Communication and Collaboration technologies with elements of the physical spaces, supporting the fact that it should be possible to work and collaborate with other colleagues or external staff, irrespectively of our/their location and the device used.