Setting the scene for the Enterprise Digital Workplace Summit, 6 June 2018, at the British Academy. We live in a time of exponential change and disruption. What we call the Digital Enterprise Wave may become a Tsunami adding Artificial intelligence and blockchain to the other emerging technologies. A management shift, but change is happening across the workplace with the "gig mindset". What is a digital workplace anyway? Finally a reminder of the 8 Strategic Building Blocks for digital transformation, a plea to focus less on technology and more on people, and 2 key recommendations.

1. Building Blocks for the
Digital Workplace & Employee Experience
Enterprise Digital Workplace Summit London | The British Academy | 6 June 2018
David Terrar | Founder & CXO – Agile Elephant | @DT on Twitter
innovation | digital transformation | value creation | (r)evolution

2. Agenda
• Exponential change and disruption
• The new business landscape
• The Digital Enterprise Wave bursts
• Management shift and the gig mindset
• What is a digital workplace anyway?
• 8 Strategic Building Blocks
• 2 key recommendations

3. Alvin Toffler
volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous
“It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent
that survives. It is the one that is the
most adaptable to change”
Charles Darwin
“When digital transformation is done
right, it’s like a caterpillar turning
into a butterfly, but when done
wrong, all you have is a really fast
caterpillar.”
George Westerman

4. We live in
exponential times!

6. Why is everyone talking
Digital Transformation?

9. The Big Shift
Cloud Social Mobile

10. The Digital Enterprise Wave

11. The Digital Enterprise Tsunami
Artificial Intelligence Blockchaintectonic shift / earthquake

12. Conversational Commerce
will change your business!

13. Blockchain
will change the world!

14. “The greatest danger in times of
turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to
act with yesterday’s logic.”
Peter Drucker

17. What is the Digital Workplace?
• Is it a device? Is it place? No, it’s…..?
• Communication and employee engagement?
• Collaboration?
• Finding and sharing of information and knowledge?
• Business applications?
• Agile working?

18. What is the Digital Workplace?
• Intersection of people, organization & tools
• Too much focus on technology
• Not enough focus on the basics of employee experience
• The practical - what works, what doesn’t, what next?

19. Esko Kilpi’s ten principles of digital work
1. Informed free choice
2. Active participation
3. Work is carried out within a framework of meaningfulness and self-direction
4. Activities are performed in interaction - the focus shifts from tasks and roles to relations
5. One is responsible for one’s own actions
6. A worker is engaging in complex, responsive and open activities with others
7. The network is the main architecture of work
8. Productivity is understood as creative learning and scaling up
9. Knowledge work is investments of human capital
10. Work is interaction between interdependent people
https://medium.com/@EskoKilpi/the-ten-principles-of-digital-work-67a2f3462000

20. The 8 Building Blocks of digital transformation

21. Deal with your org’s Culture
eats Strategy for lunch

22. Key recommendation 1 – get better at story telling!

24. Key recommendation 2 – listen more to your users!

25. References
Not for reading – just for reference
https://www.top500.org/lists/2017/11/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2017/09/26/top-10-trends-for-digital-transformation-in-2018/#1c02d914293a
https://www.tractica.com/newsroom/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-software-revenue-to-reach-59-8-billion-worldwide-by-2025/
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609484/why-this-new-quantum-computing-startup-has-a-real-shot-at-beating-its/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Digital
http://adjuvi.com/what-is-digital-business-is-it-e-commerce-the-collaborative-economy-or-apis-yes/
http://www.industrytap.com/everything-internet-will-be-14-4-trillion-market-by-2020/3054
http://www.zdnet.com/article/25-billion-connected-devices-by-2020-to-build-the-internet-of-things/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-new-cio-mandate/
http://www.themanagementshift.com/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leading-Digital-Technology-Business-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00NE6MG0Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF
8&qid=1416926793&sr=1-1&keywords=leading+digital
http://spartinaconsulting.com/our-services/culture-leadership-values
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/6032659138
http://www.compendian.com/2014/12/do-you-provide-a-one-size-fits-all-approach
http://gapingvoid.com/2011/07/28/permanent-state/
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/10/understanding-flow-eight-steps-enhancing-creativity-productivity.html
http://scn.sap.com/people/community.user/blog/2008/12/31/knowledge-management-in-crm
http://dschool.stanford.edu/fellowships/2013/10/23/a-design-thinkers-cheat-sheet/
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
https://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?unit=5&secNum=4
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-interesting-graphs-you-would-have-seen-fortune-500-companies-john/
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling/we-are-all-storytellers/v/storytelling-introb

26. David Terrar
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