Call for ‘Digital Workplace Trends’ Advisory Board

May 7, 2012

I am inviting intranet and digital workplace practitioners to participate in the newly created Advisory Board for the 7th annual survey: Intranet and Digital Workplace Trends.

The members of the Advisory Board will participate in key actions concerning the survey and report:

Help identify topics and questions for this year’s survey
Provide guidance on language and formulation of the questions
Pilot test the survey itself
Contribute to the analysis and interpretation of the data around specific topics

Members of the Advisory Board may:

Be involved in one or more of the activities listed above, depending on their availability and specific interests.
Choose to be listed publicly as a member of the Board. If for organizational policy reasons this is not possible, they will be identified generically (e.g. “digital leader in a global healthcare company”).

Requirements for membership in the Board:

Be an intranet/collaboration/digital practitioner inside an organization
Be from any size and type of organization: public or public sector, association, NGO, etc.
Have a minimum of approximately one hour of time to contribute, more if possible.

Vendors, agencies and solution providers have important perspectives on intranets and digital workplaces. I welcome and value their suggestions and comments about the survey and the report. However, the Advisory Board itself will be limited to practitioners.

Digital Workplace Trends 2013: from what to how

This year the focus is moving from “what” to “how”. I plan to explore:

high-level trends in the intranet/digital workplace
how they correspond to the big picture: new ways of management (“2.0″)
how social collaboration is impacting organizational processes
business value of social collaboration in the digital workplace and how it’s measured
how the intranet/digital workplace services the customer-facing workforce
how the intranet/digital workplace serves floor-field workforces*
change facilitation initiatives and how they are conducted and measured
how employee/workforce engagement is facilitated
how organizations are dealing with demand for mobile access and services

Help shape our understanding of the role of the intranet and digital workplace in our organizations.

If you would like to be involved, get in touch and give me an idea of how you would like to contribute. I’ll then send you a link to the online collaboration space we will be using over the course of the project.

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* See point 4 in this post: http://netjmc.com/digital-workplace/digital-workplace-trends-2012-published-on-december-12th-2011

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Comments

Mark Morrell

May 10, 2012

Hi Jane,

I hope you are well and back to normal health now. I missed not meeting you in Copenhagen.

I expect I am not considered a practitioner but having been involved previously and whole-heartedly support what you and your survey are aiming to achieve I would like to be involved if it is possible in some way.

I won’t be offended if I’m not though.

Keep in touch.

Mark

Jane McConnell

May 20, 2012

Thank you very much Mark. I am limiting the Board to practitioners as you know, but would love to have any comments or suggestions you might have. You’re one of the very early and regular participants in the survey, which started in 2006. Your input would be valuable. Anything you’d like to share, here or directly by email would be very appreciated. Your new role as consultant in Intranet Pioneer may have also given you some new perspectives!