6 ways in which Microsoft Viva is evolving to support employee experience
In the three years since Microsoft first launched its Viva employee experience platform, this has continued to evolve and expand. In that time, it has provoked huge interest from digital workplace teams, HR functions, comms professionals and IT departments, with a view to using Viva to drive engagement, support productivity, increase learning, and more. We…
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DWG’s 2024 Research Programme helps members unlock digital workplace potential
In 2024, we’ll be helping DWG member organizations ramp up their readiness for AI, evolve the digital workplace team, enhance their product management approach, develop expertise at tracking trends and future signals – and more. This year we’re excited to add six new original research papers to our existing library of more than 100 reports and…
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9 ways to deliver an integrated digital workplace experience
Over the past decade, the evolution of the digital workplace has increasingly involved the creation of more integrated digital workplace experiences that set out to weave together different applications into a consistent and coherent whole. By bringing together opportunities for employees to seamlessly access features, view data and complete simple transactions from disparate applications without…
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Measuring up: the new strategic outlook for digital workplace metrics
By Dr David Lucas The question of how best to deploy data and analytics (D&A) in a digital workplace setting is routinely cited as a bellwether issue by DWG members. With the global economy facing continuing inflationary and post-COVID headwinds, operational units of all kinds are under pressure to acquire decision intelligence and data literacy…
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How to demonstrate digital workplace impact
As DWG CEO Nancy Goebel highlights in her 2023 predictions, recessionary and inflationary pressures mean that digital workplace teams need more than ever to demonstrate tangible impact on the employee experience. Not to do so risks digital workplace initiatives once again being subject to the ebb and flow of funding and leadership attention, at worst…
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Why it’s time to reframe the ‘return to work’ conversation
It’s said that a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step. This appears to be particularly true of hybrid working. While the benefits of spending time in the office have been eulogized, gamified and incentivized, resistance to the ‘return to work’ message is also starting to grow. Last month, Salesforce pledged to donate…
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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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Should we care about business intelligence in the digital workplace?
We are surrounded by data in our daily lives. The amount of data available is growing exponentially and, for many, data is taking on the role of oil in our economies. Various data-driven business models are emerging. Within companies, the main user groups for data are typically in the finance and sales departments where the…
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When Microsoft announced the launch of Viva in early 2021 – a new ‘employee experience’ platform that is mainly delivered through Microsoft Teams across four distinct apps (Viva Connections, Learning, Topics and Insights) – there were huge levels of interest from a wide selection of different stakeholders including intranet and digital workplace teams. Fast forward…
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Digital workplace resilience – key practices in a (post) pandemic world
Learning from the pandemic period to improve digital workplace resilience for future adverse events , whatever they may be, should be a key focus for digital workplace teams. Teams need to look at what was rapidly put in place, to decide what worked, what could or should be adjusted or adapted, and what can be learnt…
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Advanced practices for hybrid working
Are we asking the right questions when we talk about hybrid working? DWG’s recent research delves into this topic in more detail.
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