This month, M-Files hosted the Digital Workplace Americas Virtual Summit 2020 — sharing information centered around how to maintain productivity and efficiency in these unprecedented times. With a cadre of speakers from companies like Adobe, Salesforce, Microsoft and more, the summit exposed some of the most effective strategies in guiding digital transformation and establishing the flexible workplace of the future. Check out these four must-watch sessions from the summit for actionable takeaways that you can put into practice immediately. Go from Survive to Thrive Making it through the COVID ..read more

Naturally, COVID-19 has risen to the top of everybody’s minds these days. For those not directly affected by it, avoiding other people has probably made the most dramatic impact on their lives. To discourage the rapid spread, governments, schools, and businesses have encouraged as many people as possible to stay home. At the same time, a well-considered digital workplace means that lots of employees can still do their work even if they don’t go to work. What Do Businesses Need for a Digital Workplace? As the crisis has progressed, it’s easy to see that some businesses had prepared for a digit ..read more

At Digital Workplace UK 2019, my colleague Tim Waterton and I co-presented a keynote called The New Generation Workplace. Millennials, digital natives and Gen Z are making their way into the workforce in ever-growing numbers. This is beginning to cause changes in the workplace — culture, expectations and ultimately a demand for a tech-centric work environment. Deloitte reports that 33% of the current workforce is digitally native — meaning they can scarcely remember life before the internet and smartphones. Millennials and Generation Z employees have different expectations of their work envir ..read more

This past September, M-Files hosted an event called Digital Workplace UK at a fantastic locale, Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, UK. It was a tremendous event with impactful keynotes on digital transformation and plenty of networking opportunities. (Not to mention, a ride in a Grand Prix simulator.) One of those keynotes came courtesy of Steve Ponting, Customer Enablement Director with ABBYY. Ponting talked about how machine learning, artificial intelligence and Content IQ are driving the fourth Industrial Revolution. He related these technologies to the modern digital workplace and provided ..read more

One of the themes of the upcoming Digital Workplace UK Conference is people. So often, digital transformation is talked about through the lens of the technologies that enable change. But we shouldn’t lose sight of the people part of enterprise digital transformation. After all, it’s people that are simultaneously the catalyst for change and the beneficiaries. It’s the employees that drive digitalization at companies. It is they that also reap the benefits of a more efficient workplace. It is they that experience job satisfaction when the company is a well-oiled machine. It’s the customers tha ..read more

Most, if not all, organizations have adopted at least some modern digital workplace solutions already: files are stored in the cloud and can be accessed via phones regardless of time and location, and who isn’t reading company email on their phone yet? The need for this change is obvious as organizations must be able to respond quicker to customer requests to remain competitive. Also, the sheer amount of information each worker must cope with increases exponentially — meaning the toolset must be modernized to keep up with this development. On average, an information worker spends more than tw ..read more

In my previous blog posts we looked at what the digital workplace is and the role information management plays in shaping the digital workplace from the inside out. We’ve looked at why the digital workplace is important, identified what “the vision” is for your organisation, but now let’s consider how to go about achieving it, as regardless of what your digital workplace vision consists of, it’s likely to feel a long way away. In a recent Digital Workplace conference, M-Files partner and digital workplace expert Nik Healy of Convergent, suggested his five top tips for approaching your digital ..read more

To understand the difference between digital transformation and the digital workplace, please take a look at the first blog post in this three part series. Once an organisation has created a vision and strategy for achieving a digital workplace, they need to consider the technology platforms that will help them achieve their goals. In a very simple form, going digital means going paperless. Therefore the most critical aspect of the digital workplace from a technology perspective, is the way that organisation manages its documents, content and other information. A workplace cannot be a digital ..read more

Each year, KPMG and Harvey Nash surveys CIOs to understand key technology trends, concerns, and focus areas. The survey has been running for 20 years and is the largest IT leadership survey in the world with around 4,000 responses from CIOs worldwide. The 2018 survey can be accessed here, and it identified three key points regarding the digital workplace and information management. Digital Strategy According to the survey, 78% of CIOs feel their digital strategy is only moderately effective at best. A reason for this could be that too many digital strategies are focused on the technology, rat ..read more

Digital Transformation is one of those business buzz words that you just can’t get away from at the moment and different people have different interpretations of what it actually means. Well, according to the (somewhat!) reliable source of Wikipedia – “Digital Transformation is the transformation of business by revamping the business strategy or digital strategy… by adopting digital technologies. In a narrower sense, “digital transformation” may refer to the concept of “going paperless”.” However, also according to Wikipedia and the McKinsey Global Institute’s Industry Digitalisation Index, t ..read more