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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Five key approaches for a successful integrated digital workplace
When most organizations develop a digital workplace strategy, or design an intranet which seeks to be a “front door” to that wider digital workplace, they are almost always seeking to create a more integrated experience of disparate systems, data and content. This can add value for employees and organizations in many different ways – from…
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Highlights from Digital Workplace Impact: Season 1
The Digital Workplace Impact podcast explores the ideas, practices and people impacting the new digital worlds of work. For each episode Paul Miller, the Founder and CEO of Digital Workplace Group, meets interesting and inspiring people who are pushing digital boundaries. As we close out our first season of Digital Workplace Impact, we’ve taken the…
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Digital Workplace of the Year 2017: why Verizon stood out from the rest
BNY Mellon may have pipped them to the post for the “winner” spot, but the Verizon entry nevertheless stood out. Not surprising, given that they have managed to put a convincing dollar value on savings due to the intranet! The judges were universally impressed with the work done on making the business case and demonstrating…
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5 essential skills we need now – for the digital workplaces to come
In our garden in the Cotswolds in England we have just built a studio. If you stand in a particular spot, near the back wall, you can look across and see the stone walls, borders and porch at the entrance to our home. I remarked to my partner, Ali, that when the sun covered the…
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