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Digital Workplace as Engagement Hub for the Employee Experience Strategy in 2019

We are approaching the holiday season and everything seems to slow down. Everybody is looking backwards as well as forward to next year’s predictions and trends. This year has brought many changes to the Digital Workplace discussions – with Microsoft’s Office 365 and the establishment of productivity tools dominating the discussions, with Intranet-as-a-Service offerings popping […]

Lou Taylor: For knowledge sharing to be successful you need engaged people, processes and tools! #entdigi #eds18

As a preparation for the upcoming Enterprise Digital Workplace SUMMIT in London we are happy to publish another interview with one of our speakers. This week’s answers to our questions are coming from Lou Taylor, director of knowledge management at the information and business intelligence company Bureau van Dijk.

Mike Blair: When implementing a new way of working, a change in behaviour and in culture is required! #eds18 #entdigi

Next in line for our interview series with our speakers at Enterprise Digital Workplace SUMMIT is Mike Blair. Mike is the SharePoint expert at Charles Taylor, a service provider for the global insurance markets. He has recently started an Intranet relaunch and will share his lessons-learned on his journey from an old-style comms tool to a modern working environment.

Matt Bywater (EDF Energy): Technology, Process & People – don’t under estimate the amount of time, cost and effort that is required to get the process and people part right! #entdigi #eds18

The preparations for the Enterprise Digital Workplace SUMMIT are in full swing. In order to prepare the discussions we are starting off with some speaker’s interviews within the next weeks. For the beginning we are happy to present the answers of Matthew Bywater, Digital Workplace Specialist at EDF Energy.

Re(de)fining the Modern Digital Workplace & Employee Experience Strategy

In my last post I stated that the “re-thinking and re-designing of the organisation for the digital age” has come a long way but still needs further refinement regarding to the strategic recommendations. The key challenges are still the change of mindset, the individual adaptation of new forms of working as well as the change […]

Essential Readings: Social Collaboration Technology goes Digital Workplace Hub / Platform

This week we had a discussion about the changes in the digital workplace technology market which brought me to the idea to bring together some recent articles on how the “Enterprise 2.0 / Social Collaboration” Technology stack has changed in recent years. The following, commented articles are providing my key reference readings to this new technological foundation.

Customer & Market Orientation as Missing Pieces in the List of the Digital Workplace Project Objectives

Last week I wrote an English version of my three key objectives that drive and characterize the Digital Workplace strategy. One comment I have received on the article was that all of the mentioned objectives were internally focussed – and none of them linked to the customer-facing side (besides maybe the digital transformation part). Certainly […]

Three objectives that are defining the Digital Workplace strategy

As the idea and the role of the “Digital Workplace” for the future of the organisation is the key question of our conference we are trying to differenciate in this post different types of understanding and perspectives in regards to the Digital Workplace strategies – and by that picture also different challenges and strategic dimensions for the Digital Workplace.

Essential Readings: Research Results on Pain Points for the Digital Strategy, Levers for the High-Performance Organization & Measured Effects of the Social Intranet

This is another post in my “Essential Readings” series with some recommendations on recent published and found research results that outline some insights on where to work on for driving the digital transformation (aka pain points to overcome), what levers to use for becoming a high-performance company (see also my recent German distinguishment of different approaches for the Digital Workplace Strategy) and what key effects are able to measure on conducting a social intranet strategy.

Changing Emphasis for Challenge of the Organizations within the Digital Wave

After the Paris edition of the Enterprise Digital SUMMIT the attention has turned to the London event that is promising to become another exciting “learning experience” focusing on the on-going changes for the organization on their way into the digital age. In this post David Terrar, CXO at Agile Elephant and co-production partner for the London event, outlines his thoughts on the agenda and why he sees a shift in emphasis: From theory to practice. From making the case for change to executing the plan.