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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What 7-year-olds need to learn now to thrive in an AI world of work

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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An integrated digital workplace has multiple doors and windows

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…

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What makes Kansas City (and many other cities) so smart?

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…

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From AI to Office 365: How DWG’s research programme will help DWG members get ahead in 2018

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…

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Why the youngest workers love intranets (at least good ones)

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…

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Your workplace is watching you!

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…

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