Where do you see the Digital Workplace in 3 years?
Kurt Kragh S?rensen
Making the world a better place to work through sharing knowledge about digital employee experience, intranet, digital workplaces, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Enterprise Search and Sitecore
Some of the speakers from IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2020 have answered questions regarding the Intranets/Digital Workplaces in the future. Below you can read what the speakers think about the question "Where do you see the Digital Workplace in 3 years?"
I think collective knowledge will be more important than ever. More and more organizations will realize that transforming the information they have to knowledge that their employees can use is critical to be successful.
- Agnes Molnar, Search Explained
New alliances between major companies like Microsoft, SAP and others will push towards microservices and bots getting more attention. Balancing agility and simplicity with a complete and holistic Digital Employee Experience will become the focus.
- Christian Skj?ran, VELUX Group
The Intranet will continue becoming part of a company’s digital workplace. It will no longer be yet-another place to visit to find company information, news or the people directory.
- Christoph Schmaltz, thinknext
While the focus is currently very much on Digital Workplace technology (such as Office 365 and Workplace by Facebook), we will see a re-emerging focus on people. I’m excited to see a genuine transformation in working practices and organizational culture, once we’ve got past the tech bit.
I think Microsoft/O365 will be even more prevalent in organizations in the future. But it is first and foremost a tool for desk workers. The big challenge is to build a good Digital Workplace for employees not sitting at desks.
The Digital Workplace will continue to evolve, and we will see that many functionalities will be absorbed into key applications, like Teams, easing the work life of our often quite overwhelmed colleagues.
- Line M?ller Roland, VELUX Group
The Digital Workplace will continue its path of integration with different applications and services to provide a more holistic approach around the Digital Employee Experience. If there is a key word emerging stronger than ever it’s ‘Integration’. More than anything else, because customers are starting to understand how the one-size-fits-all model for their Digital Workplace efforts is a thing of the past and need to fast forward into today’s more complex work reality than ever: working in multiple initiatives through networks and online communities and having to accommodate to different needs, not just for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing, but also externally with customers and business partners in a more open, transparent and public manner. Finally, the Digital Workplace will become pervasive and porous enough to help the good old notion of having a firewall disappear as part of the demands of a new ecosystem: co-creation and delighting customers and business partners with digital, social tools.
Very much where it is now. Although some early adopters have emerged the benefits to them of a Digital Workplace are anecdotal PR. Most other organisations are struggling to survive, let along thrive, in very competitive markets
- Martin White, Intranet Focus
Still trying to do what we struggle with today!
Even more focus on collaboration
Firstly I think the term may have fallen out of favour and will be regarded more as a normal ingredient of employee experience and IT service delivery. Secondly, in terms of actually how the digital workplace is experienced I wonder if we’ll see the evolution of a consistent set of content and services being available within or from different applications.
- Steve Bynghall, Spark Trajectory
More personalized and more task focused.
- Susan Hanley, Susan Hanley LLC
Digital Workplace maturity is different for every organisation; nobody can purchase a Digital Workplace, and maturation takes time and decent Change Management. In three years, some organisations will have reached a level of maturity where people feel well supported; other organisations will just start out on the digital transformation journey and will still have an immature, disjointed, disconnected digital workplace. Same as today.
- Wedge Black, ClearBox Consulting
At some point we will start seeing a reaction to big, ‘do everything’ intranet products and see the rise of more human, bespoke tools. A greater focus, and need for in-house expertise, for api middleware solutions for joining together internal systems into coherent services.
- John Baptiste-Kelly, Wellcome
Integration, people and virtual reality
Energising organisations and helping teams work better with Microsoft 365
5 年Hopefully in 3 years, no one will left still using SharePoint 2010 for their intranet, ahem, I mean digital workplace ??
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5 年Thanks for sharing. Some interesting observations there though I think?Susan Hanley?is especially on the money.
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5 年Indeed looking forward to hear about, and discuss this topic @DEX