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 […]

Enterprise Digital SUMMIT 2018: Exploring the Digital Transformation of the Organisation for 10 Years!
The Enterprise Digital SUMMIT is turning into its 10th year of discussion the challenges, recommendations and lessons-learned for transforming the way of working and organizing the enterprise for the digital age. We are therefore very excited to announce the next steps for the conference – with two differently flavoured events in June and November in London!

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.

Essential Readings: From Employee Experience, to Operational Capabilities and the Importance of Analytics in the Workplace!
This is another post ftom out “Essential Readings” series. In this edition we are exploring recent points of interest like the notion of the “employee experience”, the needed “operational capabilities” for the digital transformation and insights to good drivers for the transformation process.