Essential Reading Series: Successfull digital workplaces are build on transformative leadership and trust. Just as a last action before the weekend I would like to share with you my weekly essential readings – some recommended articles that came to my attention this week. This week’s edition starts with some technology driven discussion and ends with important cultural values. Enjoy the reading! Ephraim Freed: Analysis of Gartner’s “8 building blocks for the digital workplace”: Nice review of Gartner’s take on the “digital workplace” with the following statement: “Basically, Gartner has escaped the trap many technology-focused firms fall into of seeing the digital workplace purely through a technological lens. We’ve seen some “digital workplace evaluation” services offered that focus only on cataloguing and optimizing enterprises’ technology. Gartner’s “eight building blocks”, thankfully, offer a much more sophisticated analysis that looks at strategy, organizational culture, change management and technology use.” Brian Hopkins: The Top Technology Trends To Watch: 2016 To 2018: A short overview of a recent Forrester technology trend prediction with a nice chart (unfortunately restricted to include – see here!) – and great analyst’s speak: “Trend 6 is about the impact hyperconnected hyperadopters are having. They elevate the importance of customer insights and agile investment planning practices as a way of coping. And trend 3 analyzes the resurgence of interest in APIs, not as technology for SOA but as key way of coping with the hyperconnected, mercurial business environment.” Means for me: early adopters of the E20 crowd will drive the digital transformation! David Roe: Collaboration Software Beats Email, Vendors Claim: Good list of five practical reasons why it’s better than email for managing projects! Peter Fuda: Leadership: The most important lever of transformation: “We’ve discovered through our practice that leadership is the accelerator or handbrake for everything else. It’s the single biggest influence on culture, and ultimately sustainable performance. How leaders motivate and encourage others to behave is typically at the root of every success or failure, making leadership impact as important as every other alignment lever combined.” David D’Souza: Trust – you can’t find it in books: “It is hard to learn how to generate or earn that level of trust from reading a book or going on a course- you learn it through seeing and understanding how others generate trust. Transparency, openness, authenticity. honesty, reliability – it is seeing those things in action that creates your personal template for trust, not just understanding how the words fit in a sentence. Trust doesn’t mean you never question, it means that sometimes you can just take it as read.” tweet share share share share e-mail rss feed The following two tabs change content below.BioLatest Posts Bjoern Negelmann Björn Negelmann verantwortet die inhaltlichen Teile der Veranstaltungsaktivitäten von Kongress Media und ist darüber hinaus auch Kopf des an Kongress Media angeschlossenen Research-Hauses N:Sight Research. Er reflektiert seine Beobachtungen über die Entwicklung der Themen sowohl in den Corporate-Blogs von Kongress Media und N:Sight als auch in den Fachblogs Enterprise Digital Blog (zum Social Collaboration & Future of Work Thema), auf Espresso-Digital.de (zum Thema Social Kommunikation & Marketing) sowie im Digital Experience Blog (zum Thema Digital Experience & die Transformation in Marketing, Vertrieb und Service). Darüber hinaus moderiert und betreut er die diversen Online-Communities und Online-Veranstaltungen von Kongress Media. Latest posts by Bjoern Negelmann (see all) Digital Workplace as Engagement Hub for the Employee Experience Strategy in 2019 - 20/12/2018 Short Note about the End of Social & Bringing Back the Work Support into Future of Work! - 17/05/2018 Lou Taylor: For knowledge sharing to be successful you need engaged people, processes and tools! #entdigi #eds18 - 01/05/2018 Related posts: Essential Reading Series: Leadership is key for age of digital change – especially when change progresses at exponential rate! Essential Reading Series: People Management between Leadership & Governance Essential Reading Series: In the search for digital change capabilities and enablement! Essential Reading Series: About digital disruption and the truth on holacracy