THE FUTURE OF WORK
The need for organisations to move towards the digital workplace

The organisations we’ve become accustomed to see today tend to be structured in fairly similar ways. They all operate in vertical models built around closed silos. In truth we don’t spend that much time designing organisations as we do designing brands or product offerings, right?!
And the result is that these internal structures work separately from each other, relying on predefined communication channels while performing autonomous roles in the value chain that contribute to the development and launch of products to the market.
This recipe has proven successful in times of stability but a new Digital Era of business is bringing unprecedented challenges that are forcing organizations to rethink and transform themselves.
There are four key drivers of change reshaping the business landscape:
- Constantly changing consumer demands;
- New workforce demands driven by the rise of millennials;
- Information overload;
- The need for companies to constantly adapt to new market environments.
The successful organizations of the future will likely be those that can move faster, adapt quicker, learn more rapidly and embrace dynamic career demands.
They will function in an agile, decentralized and flexible way that transcends the corporate walls and silos of today.
Emerging technologies are acting both as an accelerator and an enabler of a new organizational concept we call the Digital Workplace of Future — a living organism that encapsulates a new organizational culture, where empowered, agile and networked teams work together across interconnected channels to create value.
This new workplace is all about adopting a human-centric mindset, structured around 3 key dimensions: connection, collaboration and communication. These dimensions are embedded in a technology layer that will design the appropriate risk management, compliance and governance models.
The entire ecosystem must be designed to deliver measurable business value across all these performance indicators.
The future of work is already here and transformation is mandatory to stay in the game! How’s your organisation addressing these challenges?
