My 10 digital workplace predictions for 2019
Before I get into my 2019 predictions, let’s start with a hopefully illuminating story from 1995 at a GlaxoSmithKline (then SmithKline Beecham) executive office in West London. I was demoing an early “interactive CD” about how to take Aquafresh toothpaste packaging into a global brand. We clicked on photos of people and up came their…
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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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Accelerating adoption in your digital workplace
Adoption is critical to digital workplace initiatives if they are to thrive and deliver on their objectives. While it isn’t a new concept (as you’ll hear more about), adoption is a challenge for many organizations – and getting it right is harder than it first appears. Paul Miller discusses this tricky subject with Kevin Olp,…
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Your “tragic” digital workplace means the best young people just don’t want to work for you.
Here is a conversation I was told about: Kelly: “Hi Dave, I’m going to have to leave my new role at Zeus Auto.” Dave: “But you only started here yesterday. What’s happened? You can’t leave.” Kelly: “Yes, I know, it sounds nuts, but to be honest, it’s just too hard to get anything done here….
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Special Mention awards for Digital Workplace of the Year 2018
In our Digital Workplace of the Year Awards 2018, well-deserved accolades went to the winner Liberty Mutual Insurance and the runner-up Cisco. The judges were seriously impressed by the quality of the entries and the fierceness of the competition – in fact, so impressed that they decided to call out some other organizations in “special…
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What exactly is the state of the digital workplace?
The digital workplace concept and terminology has been picking up interest and momentum over the past year or so, and at the recent Digital Workplace Experience conference, it was obvious how well under way some organizations now are on their digital workplace journeys. Not only did we enjoy some excellent presentations from thought leaders and…
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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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The power of people analytics in the digital workplace
Within every organization there are exceptional levels of data being produced and that’s growing. You can find all sorts of scary statistics that demonstrate exponential rates of growth in the data we produce in and outside of the workplace, some suggesting we’re going to reach 163 Zettabytes by 2025 – and that’s rather a lot!…
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Why we need to take a level-headed view of artificial intelligence
Over the past few months interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has reached fever pitch, with a surge in media coverage and AI increasingly appearing on the radar for many organizations. A look at Google Trends over the past five years confirms that interest is indeed now peaking, and respected analysts like Gartner are predicting that,…
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Digital Workplace Experience 2018 – 7 reasons why you should attend
As the bookings for Digital Workplace Experience 2018 are hotting up and the Early Bird offer is fast coming to a close (May 1, 2018) – the stellar list of attendee organizations continues to grow and we thought we’d take a look in this blog at some of the compelling reasons why you should be…
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How to put ‘Digital Scotland’ on the map
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…
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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:…
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