Priority topics as voted by 110 organizations worldwide in the July 2013 Quick Poll for the 2014 Digital Workplace Survey.
Lots of food for thought for digital practitioners and their eco-system of partners, consultants, agencies and vendors.
The Gig Mindset in 2021- You and Your OrganizationJane McConnell
People-oriented and essential in the age of the great resignation. Workplace trends and the gig mindset inside organizations. A way of behaving and thinking that helps individuals and enterprises survive, but even more, thrive. Based on data over 3 years.
Reality Check: People and Organizations in the Digital AgeJane McConnell
Presentation given at Enterprise Digital Summit in June, Paris. The organization in the digital age: trends and analysis. This is the updated version with final 2016 figures.
The Digital Workplace in the Connected OganizationJane McConnell
Gave this presentation in a private briefing for a management team in a global company in Europe. It's about the digital workplace and how it's changing processes, practices and roles in organizations.
Disruptive digital workplace: 3 approachesJane McConnell
The digital workplace disrupts enterprises. It challenges traditional ways of doing things. This presentation offers 3 approaches to defining your strategy towards the "digital workplace mode".
Digital Workplace in the Connected Organization - Enterprise 2.0Jane McConnell
Scorecards and maturity by industry of digital workplaces from 314 organizations worldwide. Early Adopters versus the Majority. Leading trends: customer focus, working out loud, humanizing the enterprise, new organizational design, the future workplace.
The Gig Mindset in 2021- You and Your OrganizationJane McConnell
People-oriented and essential in the age of the great resignation. Workplace trends and the gig mindset inside organizations. A way of behaving and thinking that helps individuals and enterprises survive, but even more, thrive. Based on data over 3 years.
Reality Check: People and Organizations in the Digital AgeJane McConnell
Presentation given at Enterprise Digital Summit in June, Paris. The organization in the digital age: trends and analysis. This is the updated version with final 2016 figures.
The Digital Workplace in the Connected OganizationJane McConnell
Gave this presentation in a private briefing for a management team in a global company in Europe. It's about the digital workplace and how it's changing processes, practices and roles in organizations.
Disruptive digital workplace: 3 approachesJane McConnell
The digital workplace disrupts enterprises. It challenges traditional ways of doing things. This presentation offers 3 approaches to defining your strategy towards the "digital workplace mode".
Digital Workplace in the Connected Organization - Enterprise 2.0Jane McConnell
Scorecards and maturity by industry of digital workplaces from 314 organizations worldwide. Early Adopters versus the Majority. Leading trends: customer focus, working out loud, humanizing the enterprise, new organizational design, the future workplace.
Digital Workplace Trends and TransformationJane McConnell
(D.C. version) Get in touch if you'd like a download link. These are first results from the 2014 Digital Workplace survey. It is an enhanced presentation from the one delivered early November 2013 in Washington DC at KMWorld.
The workplace in the digital age. How a digital workplace can support business goals and help bring a shared sense of purpose to an organization. Facts and figures from the 2015 digital workplace survey.
From Intranets to the Digital Workplace - how far have we really come so far?Stephan Schillerwein
Short presentation at the Worldwide Intranet Challenge Event in Zurich (30.09.2013) talking about some of the reasons why the progress in regard to the Digital Workplace is still very small in most organisation
I recently gave a keynote presentation in Slovenia on the business value of using social and collaborative tools to solve employee facing business problems. This is that presentation, enjoy and feel free to share!
The Digital Workplace Maturity Model – Going Beyond the Intranet
What does it take to move from a traditional intranet to something that supports all aspects of a digital workplace?
* How do the dimensions of community, collaboration, communication, services and structure interrelate?
How should your organization’s strategy dictate the profile of your digital workplace?
What can we learn from similar systems about how intranets can evolve?
Sam Marshall, Director, ClearBox Consulting Ltd.
From IntraTEam Event Copenhagen 2011 #iec11
Intro presentation from the Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2013 in Paris that served as the basis for a discussion panel around approaches for the technology framework of a Digital Workplace and its challenges
What are the future trends in the Digital Workplace? Are we facing even bigger disruption from social, gamification, and the trends that have been prevalent over the last years or are we coming to a point where things are beginning to mature?
In this presentation - from Nordic Intranet Summit, November 2014 - I have looked at some common themes that I see across both the Nordic region and in the Intranet/Digital Workplace community as a whole.
Will there be Hoverboards? Not very likely... While innovations like these are exciting and fun, the real trends are what we see when we look at innovative solutions and innovative vendors.
The question is: Are we making the most of the emergent trends or are we still using the same thinking and logic we did when the Sharepoint 2007 intranet was launched? It's time to challenge ourselves and our peers!
What are the future trends in the Digital Workplace? Are we facing even bigger disruption from social, gamification, and the trends that have been prevalent over the last years or are we coming to a point where things are beginning to mature?
Are we making the most of the emergent trends or are we still using the same thinking and logic we did when the Sharepoint 2007 intranet was launched? It's time to challenge ourselves and our peers!
In this presentation I will take you through:
• The characteristics of the Modern Workplace
• What employees are looking for when using digital tools
• Four trends that is shaping the future of collaboration
• (Hopefully) A few new perspectives on new ways of working
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
Digital Workplace Trends and TransformationJane McConnell
(D.C. version) Get in touch if you'd like a download link. These are first results from the 2014 Digital Workplace survey. It is an enhanced presentation from the one delivered early November 2013 in Washington DC at KMWorld.
The workplace in the digital age. How a digital workplace can support business goals and help bring a shared sense of purpose to an organization. Facts and figures from the 2015 digital workplace survey.
From Intranets to the Digital Workplace - how far have we really come so far?Stephan Schillerwein
Short presentation at the Worldwide Intranet Challenge Event in Zurich (30.09.2013) talking about some of the reasons why the progress in regard to the Digital Workplace is still very small in most organisation
I recently gave a keynote presentation in Slovenia on the business value of using social and collaborative tools to solve employee facing business problems. This is that presentation, enjoy and feel free to share!
The Digital Workplace Maturity Model – Going Beyond the Intranet
What does it take to move from a traditional intranet to something that supports all aspects of a digital workplace?
* How do the dimensions of community, collaboration, communication, services and structure interrelate?
How should your organization’s strategy dictate the profile of your digital workplace?
What can we learn from similar systems about how intranets can evolve?
Sam Marshall, Director, ClearBox Consulting Ltd.
From IntraTEam Event Copenhagen 2011 #iec11
Intro presentation from the Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2013 in Paris that served as the basis for a discussion panel around approaches for the technology framework of a Digital Workplace and its challenges
What are the future trends in the Digital Workplace? Are we facing even bigger disruption from social, gamification, and the trends that have been prevalent over the last years or are we coming to a point where things are beginning to mature?
In this presentation - from Nordic Intranet Summit, November 2014 - I have looked at some common themes that I see across both the Nordic region and in the Intranet/Digital Workplace community as a whole.
Will there be Hoverboards? Not very likely... While innovations like these are exciting and fun, the real trends are what we see when we look at innovative solutions and innovative vendors.
The question is: Are we making the most of the emergent trends or are we still using the same thinking and logic we did when the Sharepoint 2007 intranet was launched? It's time to challenge ourselves and our peers!
What are the future trends in the Digital Workplace? Are we facing even bigger disruption from social, gamification, and the trends that have been prevalent over the last years or are we coming to a point where things are beginning to mature?
Are we making the most of the emergent trends or are we still using the same thinking and logic we did when the Sharepoint 2007 intranet was launched? It's time to challenge ourselves and our peers!
In this presentation I will take you through:
• The characteristics of the Modern Workplace
• What employees are looking for when using digital tools
• Four trends that is shaping the future of collaboration
• (Hopefully) A few new perspectives on new ways of working
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation as-a-ServiceChristian Buckley
Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for social collaboration. Organizations around the world are struggling to understand which tool to use when -- but this is the wrong premise. In this session, we'll discuss the broader concept of 'conversation as a service' and how Microsoft Teams, Outlook Groups, Yammer, and SharePoint all fit together -- and show you how to get the most out of all of them.
Introducing Social Employee Engagement: Shifting From Technology To PeopleMSL
Social employee engagement puts people at the centre by focusing on what inspires and
engages them to do their best work. This report offers a complete introduction to social business and sets out a roadmap for success.
In the 3rd of 3 joint webinars with Beezy and CardioLog Analytics, we discussed the basics of gamification, and how you can develop a "motivation hacking" strategy within SharePoint or Office 365 to help shape user behavior and improve adoption and engagement.
Modern HR, Communication, & Leadership Best Practices With Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Today Intranets are about more than just getting key corporate messaging out. Communications have changed just as IT and HR have changed. Communications leaders have shifted from editors to enablers. Communication leaders are moving from enforcing messaging to empowering and amplifying excellent communications and great ideas throughout the business. Human Resources leaders are shifting from hiring/firing and policy enforcement to performance and engagement. From preboarding to offboarding, HR's challenges are harder today than they have ever been before. Naturally, how these leaders leverage the digital workplace has changed, especially in how they leverage technology to achieve more with less. Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he explores ideas and solutions that HR and Corporate Communications have embraced to improve how, where, and when they engage with employees. We will discuss how to best leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer for modern communications and take advantage of AI and Microsoft technology to accelerate and improve key communication and content. The technology, best practices, and approach can make all the difference, and it has, for some organizations, led to more significant HR, Intranet, and communications success.
Every month we “shine a light” on one Shared Intelligence member, by asking them a series of questions in order to share their background, insight and experiences with the Shared Intelligence community.
This month meet with Michael Koh, Head of Procurement, Asia Pacific at T-Systems.
For more information, please visit www.sharedintelligence.com.
Collaboration Excellence: Strategies for Enabling a Social BusinessPerficient, Inc.
What goes in to creating exceptional work and web experiences in a social business?
It goes far beyond a simple “build it and they will come” mentality.
Through the use of collaboration tools, enterprises can engage workers, drive innovation, find efficiencies, mobilize workforces, empower leaders and much more.
Should social learning skills be part of our organisation toolkit?
Welcome to the overview results of our second snapshot survey. Social learning is fast becoming a topical issue. We chose this topic for our second survey because we believe that social learning may hold some of the keys to creating the flexible, responsive and insight driven ethos that’s essential for surviving and thriving in our complex and changeable economic context.
Our Performance Hub Survey Series is about uncovering touch-points for further discussion and debate - rather than trying to gather a mass of empirical data on the state of play. We’ll be taking these discussions further on LinkedIn over the course of the year.
Take a look at the results and join our discussions on LinkedIn: The Performance Hub LinkedIn Discussion Group.
Presentation from the 3rd and final segment of the #MeasureCollabSuccess initiative, this time focusing on the implementation factors that can determine collaboration success.
Gig mindset - The future is at stake - 2021Jane McConnell
A gig mindset can make a business-critical difference and play, in the long run, a vital role in helping the organization survive and succeed. You need to develop a gig-mindset work culture.
How to handle internal politics that block digital initiatives Jane McConnell
Why do internal politics hinder digital initiatives? Because of people and power! Here are some techniques and strategies to avoid or mitigate the impact of internal politics and make it easier to succeed in your digital initiatives.
New leadership in the digital age: Chief Digital Officer, Community Managers and Change Agents and Activists. Based on data from recent digital workplace survey by Jane McConnell.
How to get the right Stakeholders involved in your digital workplace initiatives. Input from 5 types of stakeholders, including external customers, is essential for a relevant digital workplace.
Digital Workplace Trends 2014 - Paris presentationJane McConnell
(Paris version) Observations from Digital Workplace Trends 2014 study. Top 50 organizations in "people capabilities" compared to the others. Culture differences in the Top 50.
Presented in Paris in November 2013. Get in touch if you'd like a download link.
Presentation given at the Enterprise 2.0 Meet-up in Paris, Oct 16th. The objective was to trigger discussion about social collaboration, adoption, obstacles, approaches.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish Caching
Digital Workplace Quick Poll: What's not, what's not!
1. What do you want to see in
“Digital Workplace Trends 2014”?
Results of pre-survey Quick Poll conducted in July-
August 2013 with responses from 110 people.
2. Voices from the trenches: 77% of poll participants are practitioners
The Quick Poll was anonymous and invited practitioners, agencies, consultants and
vendors to participate. The responses were predominantly from practitioners, which is
normal since they are and have been the actual survey participants over the last 7
years.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Agency
Technology/solution provider
Other
Consultancy or solo consultant
Digital practitioner (salaried, inside an organization)
%N = 110 participants
3. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Involving workforces in emerging economies ( e.g.BRIC)
Investment priorities
Communities of practice: impact on adoption, on business
Multi-lingual issues and solutions
Enabling the customer-facing workforce
Enabling the floor-field workforce
Video for sharing knowledge/ information
Cloud: how and what
Security: issues, solutions
E-learning, new approaches to training and talent development
Impact & relations between physical workplace & digital workplace
Community management
Definition of the digital workplace: components, "pieces"
Senior management: buy-in, role, involvement
Measurement and ROI: quantitative, qualitative
Governance: policies, roles, digital board
Social collaboration capabilities: deployment and adoption
Change facilitation, overcoming obstacles, encourage new ways of
Mobile, services, BYOD
Integration of social colla. capabilities into enterprise processes
Social, mobile and change, top priority topics
Priority for over 50% of
Quick Poll participants
Priority for over 30% of
Quick Poll participants
%N = 110 participants
4. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Using the DW to better serve external customers
Getting senior management buy-in and support
Involving middle management
New ways of working, new roles from HR perspective
Empowering people to take initiatives and responsibility
Increasing adoption of social collaborative ways of working
New ways of working, new roles from Communication
ROI from internal social networking: quantitative, qualitative
%N = 110 participants
“ROI from social networking” tops the list of “in practice” cases.
Priority for over 50% of
Quick Poll participants
Priority for over 30% of
Quick Poll participants
5. Trends in the form of
data displayed in charts
and diagrams, with
analysis and comments
Stories and "in practice"
case studies from real
organizations with
observations about good
practices
What balance is the most useful for you between “data and analysis”
and “in practice” case studies?
The short answer: “We want both!
6. Appendices
Verbatim from quick poll participants:
• Additional suggestions for “Priority topics for DW Trends 2014
survey”
• Additional suggestions for “Preferred topics for mini cases and
success stories”
• Free text on “Balance between data and cases”
• Comments in general
Priority topics segmented by “practitioner” and “agency,
consultant, vendor”
7. Additional suggestions for “Priority topics for DW Trends 2014 survey” (1/2)
Quotes are verbatim and have only been corrected for spelling errors.
To me, the term "digital workplace" still seems fuzzy and contrived. It requires a clear definition and a realization that, still, not
all work is digital, and not all workers will wedge digital solutions into their day-to-day habits. (That's why I believe the floor/
field workforce topic is relevant.)
Structure/roles and responsibilities of the team.
Private networks, crowd sourcing and orchestrating vendor ideas with unmet market needs.
Multi-browser compatibility (MAC, Firefox, IE, Chrome). Mobility compliance (working well on iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, etc.).
Meeting accessibility compliance for users with visual + physical disabilities (industry guidelines from W3C).
I'm particularly interested in people moving from on-premise SharePoint to Office 365. How they are doing it, and why.
Search engine federation, seamless experience between different search engines, search engine "apps", information apps :
information on demand through widgets/dashboards, integration of transactional info into collaborative portals (reverse of
integration of social collaboration into business solutions).
My responses are skewed by the needs of my own company, so I will be keen to find out if mobile, e-learning, community
management, governance and measurement are widely seen as hot topics.
Integration of internal and external facing tools and content.
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8. Additional suggestions for “Priority topics for DW Trends 2014 survey” (2/2)
Quotes are verbatim and have only been corrected for spelling errors.
Connecting the dots for "basic" employees. (Effectively and quickly demonstrating that content is simply the inevitable
byproduct of all work). We work, therefore we produce and consume content (no matter how trivial that sounds, it has great
importance). Connecting the dots for managers and executives - managing all of that work byproduct is a strategic imperative.
Demonstrate not only the basic value and benefits, but the necessity.
Content marketing impact.
Mobile access to all data and information is key. Building the digital workplace means understanding what fits in there,
enabling collaboration with externals, and ensuring ROI and security. For me, the digital workplace is the enabler of work-life
management...
Key themes for us are really about managing expectations and risks with senior management (changing risk profile, IP
leakage, cost versus tangible benefit etc.) and how we then implement across a global business to give local flexibility while
maintaining central oversight.
Search.
Application integration - how seamless does it need to be, which applications make sense (I do not mean Outlook or Office
but process related applications such as reserve a meeting room)?
I understand the value of openness and transparency supported by social, but I can't get buy-in from management or
workers. What can be done to bring about some emotion to want to change? To even just look at possibilities? We estimate
that our small "unit" at a large university reads 8,000 emails a day. I'm trying to collect 8,000 envelopes to give people a
visual. Now add to that, one idea, worth a lot, silo'ed in one of those emails. It will never surface. I have some time yet, I only
have 2,000 envelopes.
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Might we also acknowledge that the digital workplace threatens conventional leaders, who see it (naively) as weakening
command and control? Are our workplaces so dysfunctional, so filled with distrust, so inhumane, that only a total
transformation -- of which the digital workplace is only a piece -- will suffice?
Moving DW to cloud improves speed/performance/agility from sales person perspective out in the field.
Drawing on some of the work from Jeremiah Owyang on the collaborative economy, turn that focus inward for internal
operations. Show how the work and content of one department or division gains traction and adds value when another
internal group runs with it.
Hard to chose! Everything is interesting.
Empowering people to take initiatives and responsibility won't do it alone. People need to let go of the fear associated with
presenting ideas, asking questions, talking about what they are doing. How do we get the new behaviors approved and also
get people comfortable with using these behaviors, in relatively the same time span, so that the ROI and benefits are
apparent quickly.
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10. Free text comments on “Balance”
Quotes are verbatim and have only been corrected for spelling errors.
The other 25% should be devoted to broader issues of senior leadership acceptance, culture change, and change
management.
There's always a human interest angle, if you can find the right way to project how the digital workplace will evolve into the
future,
Actually, I don't think the balance matters much, as long as we do have some stories. You always present data in clear and
vivid form, so it's almost like a story.
Case studies of fail strategy.
Understanding the 'people' aspects of DW, in particular the career development issues not just the skills issues.
Predictive content from other sources on the advancement of Technology and evolution of business processes. Perhaps data
on mobile adoption.
Issue a challenge (or request) to the readers of the report to get more involved with the promulgation of the ideas and
concepts. I know many may face internal company or industry specific concerns over sharing too much, but if there were
forums available to keep exchanging ideas and information (or more promotion and encouragement of existing forums like the
LinkedIn page, etc.), then this awesome report could be more of a year long focus, rather than an annual event. It would also
give everyone a chance to "practice what they preach" in terms of social communication and knowledge sharing. Other ways
to keep people engaged may be through some sort of gamification for the readers. It could start with simple contests (create/
share a best practice checklist on Topic ABC, then have the community vote and rate it. Best ideas get recognition (or some
small prize of some sort). Keep these simple initial contests going and they could evolve into a more elaborate system with
gaming aspects...?
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Quotes are verbatim and have only been corrected for spelling errors.
What to do practically to improve.
Self assessment - how much is the reader (or his-her organization) ready to adopt the new mindsets that Digital Workplace
requires? Where are they positioned on a classical journey towards a Digital Workplace?
One of the most difficult things to understand about the DW is the level of integration versus adoption success. Plugging in
lots of tools into the business that have limited integration / standalone versus central hub (and everything in between). It
would be good to put some time to understanding this as it can have a significant influence over success.
OSS Toolbox in the Enterprise, in other words in which areas OSS software is mature and ready for enterprise deployment.
Examples: Moodle, Big Blue Button, Resource space, Owncloud, etc.
I’d like to read the data quickly. (Charts) Changes in the way we work are so important, but I can't seem to lead change in this
environment. Workers see the need for change and benefits, but projects are run the same old way without listening to
experts. Workers don't understand what is driving project decisions. Project managers and middle management doesn't
understand the consequences of their decisions. Little shared visions. Will stories make the difference? I hope so.
Data can be useful when building your case and the evidence to support developments and investment
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12. Free text comments on “Any other suggestions or comments?”
Quotes are verbatim and have only been corrected for spelling errors.
Keep up the great work! Great piece of research - please keep up the good work.
I appreciate the work that you do. Great report
Looking forward to seeing it published. I love the stories, but I numbers sell better for my management team
Since I'm in a small organization (<300 employees), I really like to compare myself to other small organizations. It's hard to do
this with these reports. I know the overall number of comparably sized companies (16% in 2013 report), but with each bit of
data, I don't know how I stack up. It would be nice to see the demographics in each section of the report. Not sure if that's
possible to do, but that's what is of most interest to me- trends among similar organizations (base that on size or organization
type, etc.)
People who buy the report do so for a range of different reasons. It might be useful to develop 'pathways' through the report
for senior management, business managers, IT managers etc. (not too many of them!) with a brief annotation of why these
issues are especially important to them.
This is an excellent report and i look forward to it every year. If there were more ways to slice and dice the data for specific
industries, that would be helpful. I know there is some of this now, but for those in some of the more challenged industries
(where sometimes the data is too scarce to provide trends), any correlation to others in the field is valuable. Please include
me in next year's survey!
Thank you for proposing more 'stories' and excellent focus in your theme. I think that use cases provide much more insight
than data today. This is the kind of information I'm looking for for specific uses, specific issues or questions I may have.
I liked the data for your top digital workplaces compared to all the others. Nice to know where my organization is compared to
the really leaders, to the companies using new ways of working. What is the list of new work behaviors? What technology or
human behavior supports the new work behaviors? I'm not sure this makes sense, but I think we have ample technology, but
how do we get people to change or understand. And this needs to be done in an environment where people are horribly busy!
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Investment priorities
Involving workforces in emerging economies
Enabling the floor-field workforce
Communities of practice: impact on adoption, on
Multi-lingual issues and solutions
Enabling the customer-facing workforce
Cloud: how and what
E-learning, new approaches to training and talent
Security: issues, solutions
Video for sharing knowledge/ information
Impact & relations between physical workplace &
Definition of the digital workplace: components,
Senior management: buy-in, role, involvement
Community management
Measurement and ROI: quantitative, qualitative
Governance: policies, roles, digital board
Change facilitation, overcoming obstacles,
Social collaboration capabilities: deployment and
Mobile, services, BYOD
Integration of social colla. capabilities into
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Priority topics segmented by “practitioner” and “agency, consultant, vendor”
Ranked in order of priority for practitioners
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N = 110 participants
77% practitioners
19% Agency, consultant,
technology vendor
6% Other (not included
in chart)
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rounded.)
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for agencies,
consultants, vendors
Much higher interest
for practitioners
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