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Measuring Our Way Back to a ‘New Normal’
Much has already been written about the new normal, when the world transitions back from COVID-19. Predictions include how workplaces will include higher proportions of virtual work, which will be no doubt be welcomed in the context of a plunging economy which forces companies to do more with less. Others suggest an even stronger "people-first" focus, with HR guru Josh Bersin calling COVID-19 the biggest thing ever to happen to employee engagement and the start of a big reset in the way we work.
COVID-19 and Working From Home: An Unprecedented Research Opportunity
Have you ever wanted to better understand how productive you, your team and your organization really are when it comes to collaboration? If ever there was a time to research the effectiveness of how an organization is collaborating, it’s now. For those of you who have undertaken any experimental research, you will appreciate how hard it is to undertake a large-scale controlled experiment.
How would the iPhone innovation have happened if O365 Digital Workplace was in place?
It is now more than a decade since the iPhone was launched in January 2007. Back then, much of the technology supporting enterprise social networking and the modern digital workplace was in its infancy. Much of the benefit claimed for the modern digital workplace is from the speed of innovation i.e. new ideas to value capture, that digital workplaces can facilitate. The iPhone launch of the smartphone phenomena is arguably the greatest innovation of our time and indeed a driver for today's digital workplaces. It therefore seems appropriate that we take a deep dive into the inside story on how the iPhone was developed. Reflecting on whether the iPhone development may have benefited from, say, the availability of the O365 digital workplace, we can start to understand the true opportunity in accelerating corporate innovation initiatives. Insights from the iPhone development have been gained mostly from Brian Merchant’s recent book on “The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone”.