If your digital workplace initiative is not yet underway, use the eight building blocks to frame conversations with stakeholders responsible for approving, supporting and implementing programs.
If your digital workplace initiative is already underway, but lacks a comprehensive plan, re-evaluate your efforts using the eight building blocks as a guide.
IT changed landscape has created opportunities for business to solve problems today:
Cloud is introducing hybrid and IAAS
Mobile devices and tablets are creating on the Go user experiences
App stores are satisfying immediate business needs
Digital workplace brings together business and IT leaders to promote workforce effectiveness by strategically responding to a series of interconnected societal trends such as consumerization, digital literacy, changing work models, information intensity and a desire to share and collaborate
This research presents a framework (see Figure 1) that IT leaders of digital workplace initiatives should use to make sure their initiatives address all the critical components required for successful implementation. This framework can be used at program initiation as a checklist for components that need to be accounted for in the plan. It can also be used by leaders of initiatives that are struggling, as a means of checking why they have stalled and what to do about it (see Note 1).
There needs to be a balance between the needs of the organization and the employees it seeks to engage and motivate. A digital workplace offers tremendous potential for discussion and dialogue. Digital workplace designers may need some time to adjust to this change, as will executives used to one-way, hierarchical communication with their employees.
Technology options should be explored only after there is clarity and agreement on the purpose for the digital workplace. The question is not "Should we buy SharePoint or Google Apps?" but "How can we employ technology that allows us to better engage with our employees and that makes them more effective?"
Too easy to deploy; whoās installing, whoās using, how are they effecting your enterprise
Solutions are full-trust
Apps are containers
2 ā Unlock the Hidden Value of Information - IDC 2015
In addition to socializing the new operating model, the team has immediate actions to Continue the momentum
By Executing on this plan we will unlock value across new dimensions
For organizations with a multi-generation workforce, it is important to understand your demographics to know how to best find the balance of tools across the generations. If you are an organization that heavily relies on email, what are you doing for your new workers? Are you giving them the tools they need to be effective? Note: this is a generalization of observations, but any individual may cross multiple categories.
The traditional workplace is disengaged from the marketplace
Todayās Workplace needs to engage and empower the workforce
With New Experiences and Communications
And new participants to redefine productivity and transform products
Letās look at some facts: