Digital workplace practitioners

In this episode, Paul Miller talks to Marc Bramoullé, Director of Knowledge Management Services at Ubisoft, who won the Digital Workplace Leader of the Year Award 2019. Tune in to hear from Marc as he talks about knowledge management, machine learning and user-centred design at Ubisoft; tells us about his leadership approach and philosophy; and…

It’s hard to believe that we’re nearly up to 40 episodes of the Digital Workplace Impact podcast. Since the very first episode DWG’s CEO and Founder, Paul Miller, has spoken to a huge variety of people involved in the digital workplace and the future of work. From practitioners to thought leaders to disruptors through to…

Deloitte has fairly regularly waded into the digital workplace waters and offers a perspective that is mostly about organizational culture and management. Deloitte’s main public digital workplace diagram is perhaps more interesting than useful. Over the past few years, Deloitte has fairly regularly weighed into the public dialogue about the digital workplace but because Deloitte’s…

Winner of My Beautiful Intranet 2014, Dorel Juvenile, makes top safety-rated car seats for children. Employees rally around a compelling mission, which the company’s social intranet helps to amplify. See a live tour of this intranet on October 7th. Letter from Dorel Juvenile customer: “We purchased the CabrioFix car seat prior to having our daughter…

When measuring internal communications on the intranet, you can’t rely on basic web statistics to demonstrate value. Don’t settle for the number of comments per article and get side-swiped by an underwhelmed executive. “A page view is not an idea understood, a behaviour changed or a user engaged.” I wrote those words in a DWG…

The vision and knowledge of senior leaders has been essential to successful digital workplace transformations at organizations such as Unilever, Barclays and IKEA. There are seven key things that every digital leader needs to know in order to avoid failure. Unilever, Barclays and IKEA are all transforming the digital workplace experience, not just for their…

Synopsis: Enterprise mobility is still at an early stage of maturity in most organizations, but interest is accelerating. There are ten core advantages of mobility, including portability and the ability to capture data in real time, which help unlock value for frontline workers. Download a free executive summary of DWG’s new research report – Success…

Synopsis: While large companies have struggled for several years with advanced use of smartphones and tablets, digital workplace frontrunners are seeing huge value from enterprise mobile tools designed for frontline workers. This article pulls from DWG’s new research report – Success with enterprise mobile: how tools for frontline employees drive value. One of the genuinely…

Professor Karen Pine (@karenpine) started her talk at the Meaning conference by telling a story about a Geography teacher (from the too long ago to get sued 1970s). “Get as far away from this classroom as you can,” says the teacher. So, Karen’s friend hitch-hikes to Ipswich. The teacher had arranged for all of the…

You can’t demand engagement, but you can coax it. A tour of Southwest’s intranet reveals how this is done. By Matt Wilson Employee engagement is important. As researchers at Gallup put it, “The world’s top-performing organizations understand that employee engagement is a force that drives business outcomes.” If you need help with managing the welfare…

Are you using a video sharing platform within your organization? How are using it for internal communications and knowledge sharing?  Are you getting high levels of adoption? If you are interested in the answer to any of these questions and would like to get key insights into how organizations are using video, then participate in…

For organisations trying to deliver multi-language intranets there are a unique set of issues and considerations that must be addressed. These range from governance and legal considerations; potential design and accessibility issues; the implications for search; through to the cost and logistics of supporting language variations. Yet for global organisations, delivering content in multiple languages…