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…
Blog Digital workplace 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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Digital Workplace of the Year 2017: why Vodafone Group impressed the judges
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…
Blog Digital workplace Digital Workplace of the Year Awards Four digital transformation journeys revealed by the Digital Workplace Impact podcast
“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…
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Applying the scientific method to the digital workplace and employee experience
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…
Blog Digital workplace Paul Miller discusses his 2018 predictions in our latest podcast
In this special episode of Digital Workplace Impact, instead of being the interviewer, Paul Miller, CEO of DWG, is the interviewee. In this role reversal, Paul talks us through his 10 digital workplace predictions for 2018, with the objective of helping digital workplace teams to anticipate industry trends along with their implications. In conversation…
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Are we really ready for the next digital workplace?
Maybe it’s the time of year, or maybe it’s just where my attention is right now, but I have been reading and listening quite avidly to several illuminating and, at times, alarming books and podcasts (listed below). What am I learning? 1. We are underestimating the power of this digital renaissance We are underestimating considerably…
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My 10 digital workplace predictions for 2018
For several years now, I have started my annual digital workplace predictions by scoring myself on how I did the previous year. After all, why pay any attention to my forecasts if the past ones are not reasonably accurate? Story so far: 2014: 7/10 2015: 7/10 2016: 8/10 2017: 7/10 Reflection on 2017 So, I…
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Gain insights into your intranet and digital workplace: take part in the 2018 DWG survey
At DWG we’re very proud of our research programme. In more than a decade of data-gathering analysis and documenting leading practices, we’ve delivered over 70 detailed reports on intranets, digital workplaces and digital transformation. In fact, our members have told us this is one of the most valued aspects of membership. However, not all…
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