How can organizations make the most of the Office 365 suite?
In new research from DWG, experienced practitioner Luke Mepham (Service Owner for Collaboration and Messaging at Aviva) considers the opportunities and challenges for organizations of using the extended suite of products offered by Office 365. Here he reflects on his own experiences with Office 365 and gives us a flavour of the topics he covers…
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Bridging the physical and digital workplace divide
How in sync do your physical and digital workplaces feel? Is your physical environment – wherever that may be – optimized to support the digital tools you’re using? Does it feel like digital is being harnessed to better manage the physical? Is it smart? Does it feel natural for how you best work? Or does…
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Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest growing commercial product ever. It is positioned to respond to key trends in the digital workplace: remote work from anywhere, bring your own device (BYOD), shrinking IT budgets, cloud collaboration, and the “do more with less” mentality. The 2019 DWG Member Survey shows that Office 365 is set to dominate…
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The eight phases of content migration
Have you been tasked with dealing with the content on an intranet that is tired, full of outdated pages and documents, and no longer fit for purpose? Has a new platform been procured, which is clean, fresh and full of the potential to provide a great experience for your colleagues, and where they can find…
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10 takeaways from the State of the Digital Workplace 2019 report
One of our missions at DWG is to shine a light on emerging digital workplace trends and practices in order to help teams advance the digital workplace in their own organizations. Having objective data is critical for this and is why we’ve teamed up again with our partners at Simpler Media Group / CMSWire to…
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How to encourage and measure impactful digital collaboration
I’m a sucker for a mind-blowing animal story, where their intelligence brings me back to earth as an equalizer for humanity. And so, when starting the writing of DWG’s most recent research report on “Collaborating in the digital workplace: How to have and to measure impact”, I grabbed the opportunity to showcase an example of…
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Seven ways organizations can prepare for Digital Workplace 2030
Back in April 2018, we set the scene for an exploration of the future digital world of work, and introduced the four dimensions by which we describe what the 2030 digital workplace might look like as set out in our research report: Digital Workplace 2030: Preparing now for the digital worlds of work to come….
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The Robot Assistant we always wanted is almost here!
Our latest briefing paper, The Intelligent Digital Workplace Assistant: An introduction for digital workplace teams, is now available to download. Who hasn’t dreamed of having a Rosie the Maid, R2D2 or KITT, the robot car, to help us manage our day? The latest research paper from Digital Workplace Group (DWG) explores a handful of innovative…
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DWG’s 2019 research programme blends thought leadership and practical guidance to help members excel
Digital Workplace Group (DWG) is delighted to announce the topics for its upcoming member research programme for 2019. “For more than 12 years, DWG’s expert research programme has been trusted by DWG members to deliver focused insights across both intranet and digital workplace good practice. In fact, in a recent survey, 83% of members said…
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12 things to consider as you embark on digital skills initiatives in your organization
In DWG’s 2017 Member Survey, we asked about digital literacy initiatives for the first time. This is an area where many companies are active, with interventions ranging from basic elements such as online guides, e-learning modules, or hints and tips, through to more ambitious, formalized programmes with extensive digital curricula, champion networks, help communities, and…
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What digital workplace practitioners can learn from Knowledge Management
[SYNOPSIS]: Far from being “dead”, Knowledge Management (KM) is experiencing something of a renaissance, fuelled in part by digital workplaces that are helping to deliver on some of its key tenets. For digital workplace practitioners, this presents an opportunity to learn from the successes – and failures – of KM to help them achieve their…
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Digital workplace initiatives – If you build it, will they come?
As world economies accelerate, more money is becoming available to leverage technological advances to create yet more advanced digital workplaces. Much attention is being paid to the creation of elegantly crafted, well thought-out interfaces, including dashboards, chatbots and even digital assistants such as Alexa, Siri and Cortana to conduct simple transactions and requests for information….
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