The business environment that knowledge-intense businesses operate in is anything but static – it’s changing faster and faster, and in new ways. It’s becoming more and more unpredictable. Mobile technologies enable us to get our work done regardless if we are at the office or not. Social technologies allow us to collaborate in new and smarter ways, within and across organizations. This means that businesses can’t do long-term planning the way they used to. Instead they have to be prepared for change, becoming agile enough to quickly adapt to new conditions and situations. At the same time knowledge work and the contributions of knowledge workers are becoming increasingly important for businesses. There is also a big potential in improving the productivity of knowledge work that they have to address.

1. THE SIX PILLARS
OF THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

2. THERE’S NO LONG-TERM
PLANNING IN BUSINESS
You must be prepared to change
You must be quick to adapt

3. CLASH!
Agility
Productivity
How to remain productive and still adapt to new
conditions?

4. COMPLEXITY
Is the key!

5. DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY
Means we have to improvise and
collaborate. Think out of the box.
But the organization wasn’t designed for that reality.
Organization Design
Efficiency and economy of scale
DOESN’T
Enable collaboration, creativity and
personal responsability

7. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
PEOPLE-CENTRIC
Empower your workers

8. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

9. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
MOBILITY
Working from everywhere

10. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
HOW TO?
The idea of working from everywhere, from different devices isn’t new.
We can hold our workplace around our hand.
The digital workplace must be wrapped around the individual and follow them
wherever they go.
It’s not tied to a building and
it’s not open only at office hours.

11. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
SERVICES
Getting it done

12. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

13. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
USER EXPERIENCE
Services around the work place must help get the work done.
All the services that are used towards that
must be wrapped around a coherent user
experience, with access to all
information needed.

14. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
SIMPLICITY
And quality

15. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

16. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
WE’RE ALL CONSUMERS
And we are used to quality sofware as consumers. So we no longer accept
crappy software during our jobs.
The services need to be attractive and
easy to use.
We need to remove what doesn’t
add value.

17. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
SOCIAL
Isn’t only technology

18. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
BEING SOCIAL IS HUMAN NATURE

19. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
Social networking was designed to fit
human nature. We are social beings.
Not only the individual services, but also
our workplace must be designed
acording to social principles.

20. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
CONTINUITY
One step at a time

21. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

22. THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
Taking your time
Betting everything
in one card
Failing Miserably
Many frequent and
small bets
Diversified chance of sucess
+
More chances to learn from mistakes

23. FINAL MESSAGE
For any organization that has the
ambition to survive in the long haul, it needs
to look beyond the quarter economics and
invest aggressively in initiatives
aiming to improve collaboration and
organizational agility, including
establishing a culture and practices that
continuously improve collaboration,
knowledge sharing and communication
across the extended enterprise.

24. BASED ON ARTICLE
THE 6 PILLARS OF THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE WORK, AND DEFINING
THE STEPS WE MUST TAKE TO GET THERE
BY OSCAR BERG , THE CONTENT ECONOMY
PRESENTED
BY
GIANCARLO COLOMBO
vizify.com/GiancarloColombo
@_gcolombo
@startup_up
2013 OCT