…… Part of The Basics series. First published in September 2015 ……
This was the theme of the Executive Round Table organized last week in Munich by Roland Berger, The Harvard Business Review and the Peter Drucker Society Europe. It was an “appetizer” event for the Global Drucker Forum which takes place in Vienna on the each November. (more…)
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in November 2014 ……
Two recent studies, Social Business: Shifting out of First Gear from MIT Sloan Management and Deloitte (here) and the other from myself, The Digital Workplace in the Connected Organization, (my 2014 annual report) have drawn very similar conclusions: (more…)
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in August 2014 ……
The digital workplace is not a place. It is not a shared entry point. It is an ecosystem that is governed by a limited number of strategic principles that enable people throughout the organization to self-organize, work out loud, take ownership and assume accountability for their work. A successful digital workplace is participative. (more…)
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in June 2014 ……
My first annual survey, conducted with 100 global organizations in 2006, covered intranets, collaboration and what was then called “web 2.0” technologies. Top managers in most companies were out of touch with the reality of how people worked. Top management was focused on business, sales and the external world.
This was only the first of many indicators over the last 9 years of research showing that management in many organizations is out of touch with how people really work.
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in May 2013 ……
This is part one of a three-part series on the theme of “Is HR the missing player we are waiting for in the digital workplace?” (more…)
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in January 2013 ……
I’m in the middle of a large project with a global industrial company. I just spent the last hour reading interview notes from firsthand interviews of people on work sites around the world (mainly Europe and Africa).
It turned out that many of the floor-field workforce were much more sophisticated in their use of digital tools than their desk-office counterparts.
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in May 2012 ……
I’ll be talking about the digital workplace at the IOM Summit (Information Organization Management) June 19th in Cologne. When asked to give 3 tags for my talk, I said:
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in February 2012 ……
Read on to see lots of ideas, based on firsthand experiences from 18 passionate intranet people.
…… Part of The Basics series. First published in February 2012 ……
This diagram is work in progress with three of my clients who have asked me to help them evolve their “intranet+collaboration+social” online environments to a more coherent digital workplace. (more…)
Being part of the leadership class in Digital Workplaces means your organization can say “yes” to one of these 3 criteria:
