The Digital Workplace Book
Paul Miller says it is the “digital” in the workplace that now defines and shapes our working lives. Building on compelling stories from well-known organizations, Miller explains in a powerful narrative how every aspect of work is being transformed. An essential exploration of modern and future work that we can all relate to personally. Addiction, disappointment, liberation, slavery, speed – The Digital Workplace is a captivating manifesto.
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Nowhere to hide for leaders – why CEOs must be up front and personal in the Digital Workplace
Author: Steve
Date posted: May 18, 2012It’s always amazing to find how the leadership of some organizations simply do not involve themselves in the Digital Workplace, or its main constituent channels. These CEOs are effectively anonymous there, either by being invisible both to employees and to customers, or heavily disguised behind the words of their corporate communications departments. Yet the Digital [...]
Working safely in The Digital Workplace: Keeping data secure
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: April 27, 2012In “The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work” we cover both the ups and the downs of digital working. Arguably one of the negatives is an increasing nervousness about the potential for data security breaches amongst organizations. There are a number of trends which have the potential to make IT departments feel a little [...]
No more offices in the Digital Workplace – and now the end of factories too.
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: April 26, 2012I am often asked whether the Digital Workplace is a transformation confined to “knowledge workers” – people whose work happens in offices – managers, admininstrative staff, consultants and so on. The question usually arises out of a desire to restrict and reduce the impact of the tsunami of change sweeping through work caused mainly by [...]
Working in the Digital Workplace or How I Learnt to Enjoy Meetings
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: April 10, 2012Timothy Leary, the American writer and popular counter-culture figure, once said that “In the future, physical meetings will take on sacred, almost mythic proportions.” It’s a quote we use in “The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work” and one Paul Miller and others at DWF have found ourselves returning to every now and then [...]
Dynamic or dinosaurs? The impossible dilemma facing IT departments
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: March 22, 2012In “The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work” we suggest that we are on an unstoppable trajectory towards location-free working. The world of work is changing and as the Telework Research Network’s Kate Lister suggests, “you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.” Going hand-in-hand with this is an increasing desire for employees to be [...]
Is addiction the dark side of digital working?
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: March 7, 2012In “The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work” book we also explore some of the potential negative outcomes arising from the fundamental shifts in work. We believe one of these is an “addiction” to being connected to the Digital Workplace – an end-result which can undermine and erode any distinction between work and family [...]
Mapping the Future of Work – beside the Kings of England from Year 1348
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: March 1, 2012I was lucky enough to spend the last two days talking and discussing the “Future of Work” with some leading lights in the field – all within the confines of Windsor Castle (one of the Queen’s royal residences). We were meeting in the Vicar’s Hall beside St George’s Chapel, which was built by King Edward [...]
It’s ‘Anywhere Working’ week in the UK, but should governments do more to encourage the Digital Workplace?
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: February 23, 2012Next week (commencing February 27th) it’s officially “Anywhere Working” week in the UK., Unveiled late last year in a flurry of excitement by Norman Baker MP the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the aim of the program appears to be to promote and show the benefits of remote working to businesses and individuals. After [...]
Offices are hot beds of deceit not trust – just ask Ricky Gervais
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: February 14, 2012In my second challenge back to the recent Economist Intelligence Unit video of the so-called “Future of Work” I take exception to the myth that working together physically somehow always builds trust among people. The assumption that being with a colleague in person has some mysterious quality that inevitably creates trust is one of the [...]
The Power of Physical Presence in Work
Author: DigitalWorkplace
Date posted: February 13, 2012One day each month – and for February that means today – about 15 of the people in my company, based generally across the UK, spend a day together working in person. For us being in the same physical working space is a rare experience and not the norm. Who comes varies each month and [...]
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