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Preparing now for the digital worlds of work to come (full report)

When the topic of AI and the future of work arises, the picture painted is often a bleak one: What will we do for work? How will we survive? Will we ever recover? But Calum Chace and Angus Knowles-Cutler have a much more optimistic outlook on the future. And so, Paul Miller asks his guests:…

Over the past three years a major direction of travel for leading intranet homepages has been to present a focused “front door” into the wider digital workplace, allowing users to access the apps and tools they most frequently use from one convenient entry point. This not only saves time but also presents the digital workplace…

Smart cities are popping up all over the world – tackling various issues: cutting crime; reducing traffic congestion; relieving pollution levels. And while the initiatives may vary, every smart city has the same goal – to improve the lives of its citizens. The smart city at the centre of our podcast is Kansas City, winner…

Digital Workplace Group (DWG) is delighted to announce the topics for its upcoming member research programme for 2018. 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 our latest survey, 83% of members said…

Every year begins will predictions that intranets (as well as email) are finished. Then, as the year progresses, both digital workplace services continue to evolve and improve, ignoring the predictors of their decline. Many of us older workers can remember all too vividly when large enterprise intranets were embarrassing, offering limited channels of communication, knowledge…

Some call it “the quantified workplace” or “social physics” but Humanyze prefers the term “people analytics” – measuring how work gets done and how effective it is. Your workplace is watching you but with the objective of creating a more engaging and satisfying place in which to work. Paul Miller speaks to Gregg Carman, Executive…

As a DWG benchmarker, when I see an entry that stands out for its broad, ambitious strategy, its strong business case and comprehensive governance, I know I’m on course to learn about a digital workplace that is built on really solid foundations. The judges evidently felt that way too! They scored the business case and…

“Digital transformation” can be an overused term, but it does reference the journey that many organizations are making in using technology to drive change. Whether creating new products and services, improving processes and driving efficiencies, transforming the customer experience, re-engineering the digital workplace or embedding new ways of working, digital is impacting organizations and employees…

With a dramatic rise in entrepreneurial spirit among the young in developing nations, as well as the speed of response that comes with social media, governments need to digitally modernize from within in order to inspire and cater for the needs of their fledgling citizens. Technology is enabling these nations to kickstart their economies and…

  Intranet and digital workplace initiatives have long suffered from a lack of research and testing, as well as the expensive “big-bang” approach to improvements. We can reduce the high cost and frequent failure of these approaches by applying the scientific method and concepts from The Lean Startup. The scientific method is messy and full…