Millenial schmillenial: debunking myths about generational digital working habits
Synopsis: It turns out that differences in how various age groups want to work are about life cycle, not generational patterns. Building effective digital workplaces and flexible working programmes requires a focus on your specific users and their needs. Kids these days Baby-boomers. Generation X. Gen Y AKA ” The Millennials”. Marketing people are suckers…
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6 tactics to improve adoption and business value of your intranet employee directory
Most large organizations struggle with adoption and integration of rich employee profiles on their intranets. Often having multiple systems with employee profiles adds to the challenge, but these six tactics can help. Imagine this: You’re in a taxi from the airport, running late to give a presentation at one of your company’s offices in another…
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What’s the employee’s view of the digital workplace?
In my last post we started hovering just behind the ear of one of your colleagues, as they did their work in different places, in different ways, with different tools. Let’s keep him in mind, for his view of the digital workplace is very different from your view as a “digital workplace manager”. In this…
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Profile proliferation: how multiple user profiles undermine your intranet
Many intranets, collaboration platforms and digital workplaces have evolved over the past few years to put people at their centre, often by enabling contributions from individuals through social tools, and also enabling “findability” centred on a person rather than a topic or piece of content. This trend has meant that an individual’s online user profile…
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Is your intranet’s employee directory an endangered species?
I’ve just completed a briefing paper for DWG and, I have to say, it’s been intriguing. I was asked to look at that stalwart, the employee directory, and what I found worried me. An unfulfilled promise A few years ago we knew where our favourite killer app was heading. It was going to be transformed from…
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What’s different between intranet management and digital workplace management?
So the digital workplace is already here, but messy; we think the intranet is still very important and we’ve got a hunch that the team with the skills to make things better could be the intranet team. So what’s that job going to look like? The intranet guys might have the skills but what’s going…
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Should the intranet team manage the digital workplace?
Successful intranet teams have the unique set of skills needed to manage emerging digital workplace programs. Chris Tubb explains exactly why. “Ah Intranet team, thanks for coming up here” says the bigwig. “No problem CEO”, you say confidently. he head honcho continues, “I’ve been thinking about all the digital tools that we use in the…
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Why is the intranet still important in the era of the digital workplace?
What is the role of the intranet in the modern digital workplace? Are intranets a relic of the past? What is the value of an intranet within the digital workplace? In my first post I looked at our definition of the organization’s digital workplace being all the technology the organization provides to allow people to…
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Why do most organizations ignore the digital workplace?
So, in my last post we looked at what a digital workplace was and I pressed the case that every organization had one, but they are very messy and remain not very smart and joined up. One day the computer was the thing on the desk that we used when we went into work, and then…
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3 under-reported intranet success factors for SharePoint 2013
DWG’s new research report on SharePoint 2013 outlines the main considerations for evaluating and implementing the latest of Microsoft’s intranet/portal offerings. DWG is strictly vendor neutral and has produced this report only in response to our members’ interest in the topic. Even so, report author Sam Marshall has given a very balanced view of SharePoint…
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SharePoint 2013: it’s not about the technology
I’m here to deliver a message that you might find surprising, maybe even perplexing. Actually, it’s not my message, it’s a message from Sam Marshall, author of DWG’s new report on SharePoint 2013. And to be totally accurate, the message isn’t just from Sam: his report not only resulted from his hands-on research into SharePoint…
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Two intranet tours, open source vs. SharePoint
IBF Live – the online broadcast featuring the best intranets from around the world. Digital Workplace Live is the unique online intranet show from IBF. Going out live on the first Tuesday of every month, it’s unmissable for anyone who works with intranets, portals and information workplaces. 2 April episode featuring: Safeway’s open source intranet and Group…
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