It’s old news that Yahoo!’s CEO Marissa Mayer has come out publicly to tell staff that working from home is no longer allowed. Her message sent a shockwave through the digital workplace and technology community: To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working [...]
Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0
Also tagged: digital workplace, telecommuting
Last year after running one of my full-day enterprise mobility workshops, I received an email from an organisation about mobile design. They indicated they were redesigning their corporate timesheet application, as part of a broader HR project. A wireframe had already been created for the browser version of the application, which looked something like this: [...]
Categorised under: Digital workplace, Mobile, Usability & user-centered design
Also tagged: design, digital workplace, mobile, process
I have an uncle who is now a semi-retired “postie” (Australian slang for the people who deliver the mail). He loves his job, and he’s been a postie for a very long time. He’s now dropped down from full-time to a handful of shifts in a week, as he slowly heads into retirement. Over the [...]
Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, Mobile
Also tagged: digital workplace, Intranets, mobile
As new technologies are gaining a presence within organisations, we’re seeing some strategic conversations shifting from the “intranet” to the “digital workplace”. This encompasses traditional content publishing, news, social, collaboration, mobile (and beyond). This came into focus for us on a recent consulting project for a high-profile media company. With big changes needed, it was [...]
Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Future intranet, Intranets
Also tagged: Collaboration, digital workplace, digital workplace teams, intranet teams, Intranets, leadership, roles
For many years, Jane McConnell has run the Digital Workplace Trends survey. This stands as the most comprehensive look at intranets and digital workplaces in the globe, and is of huge value to the whole community. Each year, the survey focuses in depth on the key topics of the time. This year, the headline topics [...]
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Also tagged: digital workplace, Intranets