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The role human resources (HR) play in the workplace is undergoing a major shift.
In the past, HR concerns took a back seat to bottom line business needs.
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By 2020, more than 105 million workers in the United States will be mobile, and that means big changes in the not-too-distant future for any business trying to keep up with the pace of mobile innovation.
Enterprise mobility is constantly changing and evolving.
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“The objective of this program is to foster more effective collaboration”
Sound familiar? Management trots out this common refrain when new technology or even culture programs are rolled out.
We need collaboration, there's no denying that. When we collaborate toward a common goal, it’s a powerful thing.
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Employee attitudes are changing. Today’s workers strongly prefer a corporate culture that puts purpose and personal development front and center.
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“My son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh” — Ecclesiastes 12:12
Information overload is nothing new.
It has been around for millennia.
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Customer experience has been top of mind for businesses large and small for a while now. We're all meant to be customer-centric organizations.
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Most companies are not investing — although they should — in personalized digital experiences for their employees.
And with that, I don’t just mean having an intranet or a set of technologies to communicate and share knowledge.
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James Robertson got his start as a "proper geek, writing software" back in the '90s.
But somewhere along the line he saw how organizations needed "practical and pragmatic advice" on how to navigate the demands of the modern workplace.
Writing the Book on Intranets
Robertson founded Step Two in 1996
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References to ‘the digital workplace’ have become increasingly frequent in today’s organizations looking to … well, what exactly?
In the course of my recent work with a broad range of businesses, it has become increasingly clear that there is no single understanding of what the digital workplace is and what
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The digital workplace won't mean the same thing for any two organizations.
In some cases it might be heterogeneous, with many tools from different vendors. In others it might be quite homogenous, with many or all tools from the same vendor.
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One of the biggest challenges a business faces is keeping employees engaged. Research shows companies with engaged employees outperform those without by up to 202 percent.
Failure to keep employees engaged has long term negative effects. Studies show 33 percent of new hires look for a new job within their first six months and 23 percent move on before the end of their first year.
How can
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Companies wrestling to attract and retain the best and brightest talent must make employee engagement the driving force behind their digital workplaces.
This starts with the onboarding process and carries through daily interactions, position changes and eventually, offboarding.
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In today’s diverse, multi-faceted organizations, workstyles matter, especially when you consider that companies with the highest employee engagement outperform their peers by 147 percent in earnings per share, according to Gallup.
We've always known that people's productivity correlates with business outcomes, but our technologically rich and digitally savvy world now gives us
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Being on the leading edge of the evolution in how people work can be exciting, but it can also be difficult. The current trend toward remote, digital work environments is a prime example of that double-edged sword.
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