Digital workplaces – vision and reality: Martin White

There is a lot of interest in ‘digital workplaces’ as a potential vision for not only how organisations can work more efficiently and effectively but also build stronger digital working relationships with other organisations, for example in the support of open innovation. This course will set out the characteristics of a digital workplace, provide an overview of some of the enabling technologies (cloud computing, mobile and collaboration) and then focus in on organisational challenges that need to be addressed in developing a digital workplace environment.
Some of the elements of the workshop will be:

• Ten features of a digital workplace
• The business case for developing a digital workplace
• A summary of the outcomes of the 2013 Digital Workplace Trends survey
• The importance of an information management strategy
• Skills and roles for information professionals in a digital workplace
• Supporting virtual teams
• The impact of mobile and tablet devices
• Legal implications of digital workplaces
• Scenarios for achieving a digital workplace