11
Dec 2014
The costs of the digital workplace seem easy to spot if it's all about the technology, but perhaps we're forgetting that physical meetings have very real costs too....
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Author: Sam Marshall
07
Dec 2014
How are the amenities during your commute? How often do you find a 'nice quiet corner' in a cafe?...
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02
Dec 2014
The digital workplace isn't really about all this digital technology - it’s about how people work together, and if they're treated as trusted adults. Here's our manifesto for the modern knowledge worker....
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27
Nov 2014
Most intranet platforms are like buying gym equipment. They come with very detailed instructions about how to bolt the parts together. They may even come with some slick videos and diagrams of sample exercises. But what they don’t do is tell you what programme you should follow. If you want to run a marathon, the way you use that equipment would be entirely different to...
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24
Nov 2014
There are things the IT department does that make the IC team's job harder; there are things the IC team does that frustrates IT people. Talking to each other can really help....
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17
Nov 2014
The Internet of Things is the idea that we can digitally connect everything around us for sensing, tracking, and control. How might this concept apply to the office – an intranet of things?...
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05
Nov 2014
This year's Intranet Innovation Awards by Step Two unearthed a rich set of interesting practices in the intranet and digital workplace world. Notably, it was often the smaller organisations that set the standards. On November 3rd, the European-based winners and commended entries came together. Thanks to Richard Hare of Intranetters for hosting the event, and Steve Bynghall for organising the awards on behalf of Step Two.As...
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03
Nov 2014
Plenty of companies have early success with Yammer. And then it stalls. Or they hit growing pains and the early enthusiasm wanes.This scenario can happen to any enterprise social network (ESN), but it seems most pronounced in Yammer, partly because Yammer has such a large market share, but also because its freemium model means that the usual business-case test criteria (and the useful thinking that...
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25
Sep 2014
A record of September's SMiLE conference, live blogged through the day, encapsulating the case-studies that might inspire you to make more use of your enterprise social networks to support change, engagement, and communication....
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01
Sep 2014
Hierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers, hoarding information like Gollum with a hangover. Presumably some of these managers were promoted from honest worker level, so does hierarchy bestow power, which immediately corrupts?Not so fast. There are definitely bad hierarchies,...
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