Preparing the future of work is one of the key priorities of organizations today. But how exactly do you go about it? Discover best practices, expert interviews and study highlights to learn more about this topic, and become an expert of new ways of working and digital transformation.
If there's one subject that's been much talked about in recent years in terms of work methods, it's collaborative work. Yet concrete implementation often remains unclear. It's not easy to know where to start and identify and prioritize the actions needing to be...
The collaborative working environment isn't just a trendy concept. In fact, it's a powerful revolution that creates new ways for companies to work and organize themselves. Collaborative work is knocking at every company's door—no exceptions—and pushing them out of...
A broken leg, a child stuck in bed, a medical appointment scheduled in the middle of the day … Some situations prevent us from going to the office and oblige us to work remotely. In the past few months especially, containment measures around the globe aimed at...
Everyone is well aware that - whether in their personal life or at work - good communication is a necessity. It is probably no exaggeration to say that, regardless of our environment, communication is the sinews of war. For a company, for example, it is crucial to...
In companies, there is often a dichotomy between employees at headquarters (called "white collar") and employees in the field (called "blue collar"). To avoid this divide, the enterprise social network (ESN) is an excellent tool. Explanations. Re-connect the field...
Networking is a popular concept. The professional sphere speaks of it in all sorts of ways: whether it's maintaining your network or going to network at a meetup or an afterwork event; it's all we hear about. The definition of an enterprise social network is hard to...
Without encrypted data, it's impossible to know whether your social network is on the right path. Adoption rates, engagement levels, and usage can vary a lot from one entity to another, so you can’t really extrapolate the data across the whole company. To manage your...
The enterprise social network (ESN) is a digital tool that isn't always easy to grasp. Its positioning as a multi-headed hydra addressing many issues (from internal communication to the knowledge base, through network animation or collaborative work) does not help us...
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This article is aimed at human resources and communication professionals interested in better ways to inform, communicate, align and engage their staff using new digital solutions to replace the intranet. It is also intended to help IT professionals understand how...
There is now unanimous agreement that the deployment of an ESN (enterprise social network) doesn’t just happen by itself; it must be guided. Bringing an entire organization on board with a new tool and new practices is nothing short of a revolution. But driving change...
No simple recipe exists for driving the digital transformation and installing the new work methods it requires. To lead this profound change, we must transform our communication and training. But we must first break out of the methods that are still so prevalent in...
There comes a time, regardless of its sector or size, when every organization has to finally embrace the digital revolution and thus its own digital transformation. Some companies, generally those most exposed to it, have already taken up the challenge. Collaboration...
The way communication, advertising and marketing agencies operate forces them to manage complexity: the simultaneous management of a multitude of projects, with a different team for each project, several projects per employee, the frequent involvement of external...
Governance and urbanization choices, which condition the use of collaborative tools, depend on many factors such as company size, structure (which may or may not be centralized), culture (which may or may not be inclined to encourage local initiatives), and the powers...
The specificity of an IT consulting company lies in its ability to assign consultants to its customers on IT projects. Squad is a consultancy firm specializing in cybersecurity, virtual infrastructure (= cloud) and digital transformation. Spread over 8 different...
Organizations have not waited for the arrival of enterprise social networks (ESN) to involve their employees in innovation or knowledge sharing (= knowledge management). But social technologies have completely renewed the game, providing these same approaches with the...
Whether we call it an internal social network, collaborative social network or collaborative platform, this new tool might seem reserved for startups or other web and high-tech companies. Scratch that cliché! As an instrument of digital transformation, The ESN is...
Deploying an enterprise social network (ESN) is always a huge challenge: convincing the target audience of its value in a short period of time. Beforehand, obtaining the support of key executives is essential to legitimize the project. And in the ideal scenario, they...
So let's say you're convinced about the need for and relevance of deploying an enterprise social network within your company. Fantastic! That said, the need to mobilize other stakeholders to get the green light, a budget, a project leader and team, a schedule, etc. is...
The emergence of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, ...) and their ubiquitous use has transformed the way we collaborate at work! Having the possibility to interact with colleagues and share information and documents within a team or...
The employee experience is increasingly at the heart of the concerns of Human Resources and Internal Communication managers in companies. This is a major challenge with a huge impact on employee motivation, team cohesion, daily commitment, sense of belonging and...
A great company culture isn’t just beneficial to your employees, it’s beneficial to your bottom line. According to Growth Everywhere, companies with happy employees: Outperform the competition by 20% Earn 1.2-1.7% more than peer firms Are 2.1% above industry...
Organizations are adopting Enterprise Social Network at an escalating rate. The global ESN market is projected to hit $4.8 billion by 2020, and the benefits driving this boom are clear. McKinsey found organizations that adopted an ESN produced 31% faster innovation,...
Quality versus quantity — which will help you achieve your company goals? The two simplest ways to boost workplace productivity is by increasing staff or increasing efficiency. When client bases are growing alongside funding, hiring becomes a popular way to show off...
Scott is the CTO of a mid-sized manufacturing company, and relies on his enterprise social networking platform to communicate with employees across multiple locations and geographic regions. He’d noticed that participation seemed to go in spurts – there would be some...
Company culture eats digital transformation for breakfast. OK the original Peter Drucker quote is culture eats strategy for breakfast, but you can fill in the blank for what culture devours because it’s the driving force of your organization, and it’s the driving...
Are you a member of an online, industry-related community? If not, you’re missing out on some awesome knowledge-sharing, networking, and camaraderie opportunities. In this post we’ll review some of the perks of being a member of an online community and take a look at...
The data do not lie—social businesses are the wave of the future. Global revenue from enterprise social networks is predicted to grow from 3.85 billion USD to 4.55 billion USD from 2018 to 2019. The reason for this growth is simple. As Forrester found, business can...
Are you ready to streamline communication, improve efficiency, and have more committed team members? Then it might be time to consider social software. It's 2018, so there's a good chance you've heard about it by now. Also known as team collaboration software, social...
Forward-thinking B2C companies are getting—and staying—ahead of their competition by embracing social media. They are keeping their audience up-to-date on new products & features, gathering customer feedback, creating two-way communication streams with their...
At any given moment nowadays, on-the-clock staff are checking and updating their social media statuses, reading feeds and networking on business media sites. Moments will often stretch to minutes: A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that 60% of social media...
If you had been told 15 years ago that software could be accessible from anywhere at anytime, would you have believed it? This is the reality today: a large part of our software is SaaS (Software as a Service) and available on the Cloud. It has gradually become less...
Whether it’s performance evaluation from managers, team brainstorming, or customer feedback on your product, the continuous and regular giving and receiving of feedback is vital for the ongoing health of any business. Organizations are organisms which live and breathe...
The days of being confined to a single work location are dwindling. The nature of work has become more remote and distributed. In 2016, 43 percent of employed Americans said they spent at least some time working remotely, according to a Gallup survey of more than...
In a workplace filled with unique characters, misunderstandings, and communication, failures are bound to happen from time to time. We are, after all, humans with emotions and not data driven robots. However, taking the time to specifically work on workplace and team...
Over the past couple of years, group chat apps like Slack have become an absolute must-have for today’s modern teams. It’s not very difficult to see why, after all, modest teams rely on swift decision taking; real-time communication simply supports that in a much...
My various roles at Talkspirit lead me to use every day a dozen of digital web apps to interact with our entire ecosystem or participate in various business processes. Among these solutions, I use daily: Salesforce for our business Trello and Github for project...
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