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If Work Was So Great, We'd Do it for Free
The focus of a digital workplace strategy should be to improve the employee experience by eliminating "nonwork" -- trivial tasks such as booking meeting rooms.
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Adapt Your Digital Workplace to the Gig Economy
With the gig economy on the rise, businesses should learn how to use their digital workplace to make the most of this temporary workforce
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2017 Contributors of the Year: Sam Marshall
An interview with Sam Marshall, one of the top CMSWire contributors of 2017
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Microsoft Is Sending Collaboration Loopy
Microsoft released a guide on "where to start a conversation" in its collaboration tools. It's a start, but now the company needs a plan to better integrate the tools
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Workplace Chatbots: Too Little, Too Soon?
“The reaction to ELIZA showed me the enormously exaggerated attributions an audience is capable of making to a technology it does not understand” — MIT professor emiritus Joseph Weizenbaum on the first chatbot created in 1964 Workplace chatbots promise to lighten employees' repetitive tasks and tackle information overload, as Andrew Pope and
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5 Levers of Digital Workplace Governance
Picture a busy traffic intersection. In theory, if everyone is a skilled driver and considers others, there's no need for road markings, lights, signs or traffic police. But in practice you need all of these. Last month I argued governance is still necessary for a digital workplace, but
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Governance Still Matters in a Digital Workplace
“Without rules, ping-pong is just sophisticated wafting” — Thom Tuck Martyn Perks recently wrote, “Goodbye Governance, We Don't Need You Any More.” I’m grateful to Perks for challenging the need for governance in digital workplaces.
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The Laws of Internal Communications Supply and Demand
Imagine you run a small shop, filled with things you think people will buy: fresh vegetables, sustainably-sourced furniture, fair trade coffee. But none of it sells. People might even tell you they want those things, but they still don’t buy.
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Clear Knowledge Management Roadblocks with This Diagnostic Tool
The knowledge management (KM) concept has been kicking around for over 20 years now, to the point where I thought we were permanently lingering in a post-hype disillusionment phase. But lately I've seen it creeping back into business cases for collaboration tools and digital workplaces.
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SharePoint Emerges From Its Ugly Duckling Phase
Two moments summarized Microsoft's May 17 SharePoint Virtual Summit for me: One was a quote from SharePoint VP Jeff Teper, "Intranets aren't just a project for some people, it's a career.
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Why You Can't Buy a Digital Workplace
Increasingly I hear IT departments refer to their Office 365 programs as being a "digital workplace" initiative. Similarly, during my research on SharePoint Intranets in-a-box, several vendors called their products a "digital workplace." This trend is troubling. A digital workplace is not something you can buy and install.
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SharePoint Intranets: To Buy, To Build or To Wait?
Over the last two years, organizations have dramatically changed how they approach creating new intranets on SharePoint. Instead of partnering with a development agency, they are looking for ready-made, easily adaptable and quickly deployable solutions. Products such as Interchange, LiveTiles, Powell 365, Unily and Wizdom offer businesses a fast-track start.
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Digital Workplace Leadership: It Takes a Village
Digital workplace leadership is largely a hands-off role. It is up to executives to set a vision, then step back and let the organization determine the program. It Takes a Village When it comes to digital workplace design, I often use the analogy of town planning.
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'Re-Imagining Productive Work' Offers Practical Office 365 Advice
In his latest book, "Re-Imagining Productive Work with Microsoft Office 365," author Michael Sampson focuses on how businesses can best use Office 365 capabilities to support common digital workplace needs. Sampson is well-established as an author who tackles the business side of collaboration.
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