Eight key themes from the Digital Workplace Executive Forum, June 26–27, 2018
At a recent Digital Workplace Executive Forum, hosted by DWG and Avanade, senior executives from major private and public sector organizations immersed themselves in the trends, challenges and opportunities of the evolving digital world of work. Here are eight key themes that arose in the discussions among these senior digital workplace executives: 1. Helping people…
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How ‘ethical’ is your digital workplace?
Today’s digital technology has the power to influence our behaviour on a global scale, for better and for worse. And with financial rewards often disrupted by the need for other workplace values, such as flexibility, it’s in an employer’s best interest to ensure its digital workplace is ticking all the right ethical boxes. But what…
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Why experience is the heartbeat of a modern digital workplace
Employee experience has become an increasingly hot topic over the last few years, fuelling many internal projects. Recorded live at Digital Workplace Experience in June, Paul Miller probes our guests, Morten Dal, Karen Downs and Kate Herrick, on what employee experience means, how it compares to customer experience and the importance of strong leadership. Listen…
Blog Inside track on the ‘Digital Workplace of the Year Awards’ 2018
In this episode of Digital Workplace Impact, Paul Miller catches up with the winners of the Digital Workplace of the Year Awards 2018. Tune in and hear from Aaron Kim from Royal Bank of Canada, Liberty Mutual’s Troy Campano and Cisco’s Alan McGinty, as they tell us what it’s like to be recognized in these…
Blog Work has left the office – the relentless rise of remote working
Remote working has grown by 115% since 2008 and it’s predicted that 38% of full-time employees will be working remotely over the next 10 years*. There’s no denying that work has left the office, but for how long? Despite the plethora of benefits that come with remote working, we have to ask ourselves: how well-equipped…
Blog How technology is ‘renovating’ the Home of Cricket
Loved (at least by some!) and played the world over, cricket has reinvented itself to appeal to new audiences with its wickets and Cricket Pitch Covers. Off the pitch, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is reinventing the way its cricket clubs operate – transitioning them from legacy, paper-based processes to the digital workplace….
Blog How London’s Heathrow Airport is preparing for digital take-off
76,000 people work at HEATHROW airport employed by around 300 different companies. 60% of these people do not have a desk or a laptop, With that, Heathrow Airport is on a mission to deploy a truly mobile digital workplace. The objective is to digitally connect all staff to enable them to focus better on their…
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7 reasons to enter the Digital Workplace of the Year awards
The 2023 Digital Workplace of the Year Awards celebrate organizations and practitioners who have excelled at creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplace environments. The Awards celebrate exceptional work undertaken by both organizations and individuals. For 2023 there are three categories: The deadline to submit your entry for any of the 2023 Awards is June 2, 2023…
Blog How the World Bank digitally empowers the young in developing nations
With a dramatic rise in entrepreneurial spirit among the young in developing nations, as well as the speed of response that comes with social media, governments need to digitally modernize from within in order to inspire and cater for the needs of their fledgling citizens. Technology is enabling these nations to kickstart their economies and…
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Keep it simple – set your users free from “corporate speak”
Does your intranet have an “Employee Zone”? What can users expect to find in the “Alert Box”? Do TLAs (three letter acronyms) rule your IA? Large organizations are rather like countries when it comes to language. Over time, groups of employees evolve a dialect that, while clearly understood by those in the loop, can leave…
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Survey results: 2017 digital workplace trends
Digital Workplace Group (DWG) is pleased to announce the availability of “The 2017 State of the Digital Workplace Survey Report”. Our sweeping reveal of insiders’ sentiments about the digital workplace and the future of intranets is here! This report is published in partnership between DWG/CMSWire and was months in the making. 41% of survey respondents…
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Digital Nations Group to convene at World Bank HQ, Washington DC
In Geneva, attendees meet as part of the Digital Nations Group On Tuesday and Wednesday May 9–10, professionals from non-profit and non-corporate organizations will convene at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC to discuss and share ideas on harnessing developments in digital to improve their ways of working and accelerate their digital transformation. This…
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