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Six key approaches for success

The practice of looking into the future and forming well-considered ideas about what we might find there requires of us both rigour and creativity. Organizations often use a 10-year timeframe for this process in order to stimulate creativity and suspend current operational thinking, while avoiding the process seeming too much like science fiction. So when…

76,000 people work at HEATHROW airport employed by around 300 different companies.  60% of these people do not have a desk or a laptop, With that, Heathrow Airport is on a mission to deploy a truly mobile digital workplace. The objective is to digitally connect all staff to enable them to focus better on their…

Scottish Government is blazing a digital trail. It’s improving its internal digital workplace and transforming the employee culture; digitizing its frontline services to allow everyone access, whether they live in a large city or on the remotest of islands; and boosting its economy by attracting leading tech companies. Paul Miller talks to Ken Goodlad from…

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…