Transitioning Your Intranet to a Digital Workplace

The digital workplace is more than just the evolution of your intranet. The scope is broader and the focus is different. For intranet professionals, digital workplaces require a new and different way of thinking. Additionally, the digital workplace transforms the way you work and the way you do business day-to-day.

 

In this interactive session we will first explore the journey to a digital workplace and then apply these concepts to your specific organization. Bring your questions, issues, thoughts and ideas, and together, we will answer the following crucial questions:

1. What is the digital workplace and what is it not?
2. Why is it relevant to your organization?
3. How do you get there and what roadblocks will you likely encounter?
4. What are the next steps you can take?
5. Who needs to be involved and who should be in charge?

Walk away from this session with a firm understanding of what a digital workplace is, what it could potentially look like at your organization, and a foundation that will set the pace for the rest of the conference.

 

Joerg Meissner, Former Director of IT
Instron

 

You probably have bits and pieces of a digital workplace; an intranet here, a social tool there. But how do you bring it all together and evolve into a truly robust Digital Workplace – one that deserves those capital letters.

Moreover, how do you govern it in a way that encourages adoption? And, what role will that adoption play in changing your organizational culture? Sometimes the sum of the scraps puts you farther down the road than you think!

Attend this session and get ready to turn your disparate technologies into a cohesive digital workplace, including how to:

• Encourage employees to change the way they think and talk about the intranet
• Use digital workplace technology to shift your organization culture
• Partner with IT to create a broader, more holistic, view of the technology
• Govern a digital workplace – it is quite a bit different than governing an intranet!
• Use an Eloquor tool to help smooth your path on your journey to a successful Digital Workplace

 

Stacy L. Wilson, ABC, President
Eloquor Consulting, Inc.

 Collaboration as we know it has changed dramatically over the years, as a digital transformation takes place within our organizations. In fact, it wasn't that long ago that we had to make a concerted effort to connect with one another; now that same effort is required to disconnect.  So why do organizations continue to struggle to connect and engage with employees, customers and partners?

 

According to Gartner, 80% of social collaboration efforts fail to meet expectations. If we have the tools, the technology, and the will, then why aren't we doing a better job with connecting and collaborating within our organizations? 

 

This interactive workshop will tackle issues with social collaboration and more, taking an in-depth look into why digital workplace initiatives often fail to meet expectations. You’ll be asked to brainstorm and discuss how changes in your approach to interacting with employees can lead to enhanced user adoption, improved employee engagement, increased productivity, and a lasting, successful digital transformation within your organization

 

Learn how to successfully connect with your employees and bring social collaboration to life in

your organization, including how to:

 

• Manage the unavoidable technological changes taking place in your organization
• Overcome and avoid common digital workplace mistakes being made by other organizations
• Implement the right technology to enable, rather than inhibit, your digital workplace success
• Transform your thinking and begin to practice employee-centric planning to leverage social collaboration every day

 

Curtis Hughes, Co-Founder & Managing Partner

C5 Insight

The topic of digital workplaces and digital transformation is getting hotter and hotter, which means more and more technologies, software, and capabilities are popping up every day. With so many platforms, options, and vendors it can be overwhelming as a customer to find the perfect digital tools for your company.
 
This fast-paced workshop will share customer research from noted evaluation firm Real Story Group on leading social-collaboration platforms, and provide a framework for customers to assess technology choices based on their particular needs.  The workshop will also de-mystify the highly crowded and fragmented social software marketplace – including social services from platform and infrastructure vendors, collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, community platforms, and social layers — enabling participants to compare and contrast competing vendors in an unbiased space.
 
Save yourself time, energy, and headaches by attending this workshop and learning the best practices in technology selection and implementation, and walk away with:

• A methodology to pair business needs with technology options
• A reference model, framework, and practical examples for applying user center design to the digital workplace, to reshape the employee experience by working from the screen-backwards, rather than systems-forward
• A “no-BS” assessment of strengths and weakness of some of the leading players, based on quantitative and qualitative customer research
• And, most importantly, digital workplace technology knowledge to wow your IT department and impress your leadership

 
Tony Byrne, Founder
Real Story Group