…… Part of The Basics series. First published in November 2014 …… Most organizations are just starting the journey. A long road with major barriers. 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:
Read 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.
Read More…… Part of The Basics series. First published in June 2014 …… The truth lies on the front lines 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.
Read More…… Part of The Basics series. First published in May 2013 …… What’s different when HR co-leads the digital workplace? 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?”
Read 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.
Read More…… 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: Framework Transformational Change facilitation
Read More…… Part of The Basics series. First published in February 2012 …… What came out of a 45-minute round table discussion on “How to get from an information-based intranet to a social intranet”? Read on to see lots of ideas, based on firsthand experiences from 18 passionate intranet people.
Read More…… Part of The Basics series. First published in February 2012 …… The digital workplace from three complementary angles: management & stakeholders, people and “building blocks” 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.
Read MoreBeing part of the leadership class in Digital Workplaces means your organization can say “yes” to one of these 3 criteria: Our intranet or digital workplace is the way of working for our people. Social collaboration is well-established in all or part of our organization. We have a Digital Board, responsible for strategic decisions across all our digital channels, both internal and external.
Read More…… Part of The Basics series. First published in August 2011 …… Centralization is not easy. It is often a question of degree. It is always a question of how. In intranet and digital workplace matters, it will only work if you approach it in a collaborative and negotiated way.
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