My seven lessons from Gartner’s first in-person digital workplace summit since 2019
The last Gartner Digital Workplace Summit was back in 2019. Yes, I know, it took place in the alternate reality of the world before ‘early 2020’! But now it’s back – so here are my reflections, with seven things I learned from participating in the first post-pandemic in-person Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in London. This…
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How to train publishers and content owners for your SharePoint intranet
An intranet is only as good as its content. You can have a beautiful design, amazing integrations and all the latest bells and whistles, but if your content has no value, is out of date, badly written or hard to find, then your intranet is not a success. Ultimately adoption will suffer. Most intranets rely…
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What makes an award-winning digital workplace team?
Nominations for this year’s Digital Workplace of the Year Awards opened earlier this month. The awards, produced by Digital Workplace Group (DWG), celebrate those organizations and practitioners who have excelled in creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplace environments. We’re completely thrilled to introduce for 2023, our new Digital Workplace Team of the Year award. What winning…
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Working with intention and purpose in a hybrid working world
Paul Miller kicked off our hybrid working blog series a few weeks ago with Why post-pandemic HQs must be big and small – at the same time, which shared examples of organizational ‘workspaces’ optimized for collaboration. When you consider the relentless pace of organizational and technology change, the hybrid working holy grail is built on shifting sands…
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This year’s Digital Workplace of the Year Awards open in just under a week, on April 3, 2023. The awards, produced by Digital Workplace Group (DWG), celebrate those organizations and practitioners who have excelled in creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplace environments. Since its launch seven years ago, DWG’s Digital Workplace Leader of the Year award…
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Why post-pandemic HQs must be big and small – at the same time
Everyone has an ‘office story’ in these post-pandemic times – and that tale tends to runs along now familiar lines: “I’m in the office sometimes but not anywhere near as often as before – and it’s working fine for me overall.” Which, as we all know, leaves whole swathes of corporate real estate floundering as it’s…
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Keeping up with Microsoft Viva: Why 2023 will be the year that Viva enters the digital workplace
Microsoft Viva, the employee engagement platform that Microsoft launched in early 2021, continues to attract a great deal of interest from digital workplace teams, intranet professionals, HR functions and internal communicators. Yet, up to now, it is perhaps still not that well known to end users as a platform they use every day. However, in…
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Looking for a playbook for the digital workplace? DWG’s 2023 Research Programme is here!
In 2023, we’re excited to add six new original research papers to our existing library of over 100 reports and 200 case studies. You can see all the details in the new fact sheet for the programme. DWG’s CEO, Nancy Goebel, says: “In our year-end 2022 feedback survey, DWG members told us that they use…
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Six ways digital workplace teams can evolve the mobile employee experience
Accessing the digital workplace and its related tools and services through a mobile device is important for employee experience. This is particularly the case in organizations with a high proportion of frontline and mobile employees who might work in factories, retail units, out in the field or on the go. For those sections of the…
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Digital workplace, digital employee experience, intranet; what’s the difference?
You are about to launch an intranet, but it goes beyond what a ‘traditional’ intranet typically is, offering integrations with a number of other apps. Perhaps this is a digital workplace then? But it is also focused on improving the overall experience of employees; so, is this in fact a digital employee experience platform? And,…
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Behind the scenes of The Digital Workplace book
Around 2009, people within DWG – then known as the Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) – were beginning to consider the wider suite of digital tools that organizations were introducing alongside their more well-established and better-understood intranets, and to wonder what this combined new array of work practices and products amounted to. Always fascinated by patterns…
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20 years of DWG Research: Fostering human-centred digital workplaces
To mark DWG’s 20th anniversary on June 20, 2022, we are publishing our 20 Perspectives from 20 Years series, authored by key individuals from our history. We are delighted to kick the series off with a post written by DWG’s Director of Research, Elizabeth Marsh. As DWG celebrates its 20th anniversary year, we have taken…
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