Intranets and digital workplace

While consumer applications are invading the workplace and employees collapse under information, the example of the application that should be brought to the workplace is Google Now. You don't know Google Now ? Available for one year on Android and a couple of weeks on iOS, it's a predictive service...

Every study shows that mobile and mobility are one of the main challenges businesses face today and that quick responses are needed. That's a multifaceted challenge : - employer brand : any reference employer should provide his employees with tools that are at least as good as the one he...

It's taken for granted that the digital workplace is the future of the work environment and, in this perspective, it's often presented with a technological perspective : platforms, tools, integration, interoperability, mobility etc. But who says workplace also says people. In The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work, Paul...

As promised, here's the second part of my post on the Digital Workplace trends for 2013. • User Generated anything Initiatives aiming at having users generating content or anything fails to take off. Once again the reason is not hard to find. That's the legacy of the times when businesses used...

Like every year, Jane McConnell issues her report on the Digital Workplace trends after having assessed 362 organizations around the world. I won't explain in detail each of the 169 pages but share a couple of comments, on the flow, as if I was reading it with you. For...

In brief: enterprise social networks mobilize attention and effort. But by focusing too much on social networks - and only on them- they forget that they're only a recipients whose value comes from they periphery through flows of information that are born and finish elsewhere. Even if enterprise social networks...

In brief: the advent of social software change shifted the balance of power between IT and business people by reinforcing the autonomy of the second. But as social networks projects become digital workplaces ones over time, the need for internal coherence implies a strong comeback of IT departments to...

In brief : wondering if there's any reason to use a social network for a private conversation implies that having many tools coexisting is a given, a constraint. But it's not. The given is the need to manage many forms of interactions and the question should rather be about...

Summary : the predictable evolution of social and 2.0 strategies will cause a reorganization of a landscape that's essentially crowded by social networks todays. The already-started evolution of business tools, the need for tools helping to manage and measure the human capital in a new paradigm will cause a...

Summary : it's impossible to think about emergent collaboration and self-organized structures without visibility on others' work. That's the reason why employees are more and more expected to share statuses related to the progress of their work. An approach that carries many promises and tangible benefits but that's also...