Winner of the Digital Workplace of the Year announced
Following our recent announcement of the winners of the 2017 Digital Workplace of the Year Award, it’s time to fill you in with a bit more information on why they won! We’ll be showcasing the best practice of our winners and runners-up over the weeks and months to come, but in this post you can…
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Adobe, KPMG and IKEA feature at Digital Workplace Experience: June 19–21, Chicago
Powerful content, DWG Clinic and a new DWG diagnostic take centre stage in Chicago. Digital Workplace Group (DWG) is co-hosting a physical conference this year in Chicago, June 19–21, with SMG/CMSWire. The event is Digital Workplace Experience, or #DWExp17. We’ll cover every aspect of intranet, employee experience and beyond. Of course, the DWG member community…
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Seeing Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in a digital workplace
Large organizations have a multitude of ways to sort through their digital workplace needs and priorities in order to create a strategy. Each lens can shed a different light on the digital workplace – the value it delivers, the gaps in its coverage, etc. I recently found myself wondering how the digital workplace – and…
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Five things we’ve learned from the Digital Workplace Impact podcast
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. So far we’ve heard about everything from digital transformation, to combining work and surfing,…
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Why digital workplace transformation starts with digital leadership
Successful digital transformation – both inside and outside the organization – starts with digital leadership. Yet many leaders are struggling to understand how to evolve their leadership capabilities in the digital world of work and truly to understand the potential value of organizational transformation. To address this, leaders need to understand how to lead in…
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Seeking outstanding digital workplace leaders!
You may have heard that Digital Workplace Group and Simpler Media Group / CMS Wire are jointly seeking out the best in our profession to recognize in its Digital Workplace Leader of the Year award. Perhaps you know someone who has what it takes to win? If so, we really, really want to know! Maybe…
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If only fixing our culture was as (comparatively) straightforward as rolling out Office 365
One of our large consumer manufacturing clients has a terrific digital transformation agenda for “Workplace 2022” with a robust technology roadmap, active leadership support, highly capable people across the world – and it’s firing on all cylinders. But there is a block. The organization’s culture is resistant to change, silos run deep and habits of…
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14 competencies for an employee experience (EX) digital strike force
In 2015 we published a blog post on the concept of the Chief Employee Experience Officer (CEEO). As it turned out, days before, Airbnb had announced their own new CEEO and the article resonated deeply with audiences across the globe. Since that article, we’ve seen a steady march towards increased focus on employee experience at…
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How can I know if my organization is ready for digital working?
We’ve all been there. You hear about a new app intended to help you change your habits. You download it to your phone. It’s life-changing for a few days, or even weeks. “This is it,” you marvel, “my life is changed forever!” Then you miss a day. Then a week. And, before you know it,…
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What digital workplace teams need to know about Office 365: understanding the opportunities
Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest growing commercial product ever.1 Recent DWG research found that 48% of organizations are already using it and an additional 15% planned to in the next year. Up to 40% of DWG members are planning to introduce Office 365 in the next 18 months.2 Microsoft is positioning Office 365 to respond…
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Start with snowflakes to design your digital workplace strategy
Every organization is different. Let me qualify that. Every organization – even those businesses that produce or provide similar things – are culturally different. What on earth does this have to do with designing successful digital workplaces though? Well, it turns out, everything. Like a snowflake, your organization’s current digital workplace is a complex, subtle…
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Facebook, Microsoft, Slack, Watson… who will win the technology battle?
It seems 2016 has been the year when the mission to capture the next wave of digital workplace technology domination went into overdrive. In October we saw the launch (post pilot) of Facebook’s workplace offering, after 18 months in beta. That was followed a few weeks later by the deployment of Microsoft Teams, slated as…
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