Inside the Digital WorkplaceRobin Lipscomb, Author at Inside the Digital Workplace

Five innovations that will revolutionize the retail sector by 2025

December 4, 2018 - Employee experience • Retail

Retail is a unique sector, in that most of us can claim to be experts in it. This is to say that most people - the vast majority – are shoppers themselves. But even the most dedicated shopper of today would be unable to predict the way the industry will shift... Read more

How technology can help a utilities industry in flux

June 20, 2018 - Future Workplace • Future Workplace 2025 - Articles

From major shifts in workforce demographics to organizational restructuring and new technologies, the utilities industry is undergoing intense and serious change. We examined these factors and others in a recent webinar, ‘Are you reinventing your organization to adapt to the speed of the market?’, which I co-hosted with PAC Principal... Read more

How co-creation can help you face the wave of modern workplace change

January 19, 2018 - Future Workplace • Future Workplace 2025 • Future Workplace 2025 - Articles • Productivity

Joining forces to develop new agile working solutions that can deliver a competitive edge In recent times in the IT industry, I’ve been left feeling more and more like I’ve just awoken from a rather deep slumber. Not so much comatose but perhaps a little disappointed or even disillusioned if I’m... Read more

Workplace 2025: bring the future to you in three steps

December 20, 2017 - Employee experience • Future Workplace • Future Workplace 2025 • Future Workplace 2025 - Articles

At Fujitsu Forum 2017 I joined Citrix’s Christian Reilly, VMWare’s Shawn Bass, Microsoft’s Anna Kopp and Google’s Harald Fratz onstage to discuss the future workplace. The session was a chance for us to answer questions about various issues concerning Workplace 2025 – the subject of our latest white paper. In terms... Read more

How will millennials work with us in the future workplace?

June 9, 2017 - Employee experience • Future Workplace

Somewhat disappointedly, we now live in a confused, uncertain and chaotic time where for the most part we appear to be almost de-humanising ourselves ahead of what seems to be substantive global change. The economy, the threat to our liberties and the increasing reliance on working in an isolated yet... Read more

A new kind of workplace is coming – are you ready?

March 21, 2017 - Employee experience • Future Workplace • Insight • Productivity

When you consider how quickly technology has changed the way we work today – the smartphone in your pocket packs more computing power than the computers used to put men on the moon in the ‘60s – it bears thinking about what could be around the corner. Not least... Read more

Sociological change – is it technology driven?

November 8, 2016 - Employee experience • Future Workplace • Insight

For a disruptive technologist like me to write about the part played by technology in sociological change is going to be somewhat challenging. I say this from the edge of a tipping point as we stand on the precipice of the next industrial revolution – but who knows, looking... Read more

The caveman & the evolution of the anthropomorphized machine

October 14, 2016 - Future Workplace • Insight

Ever since the dawn of time we as human beings have always strived and wanted to achieve more. Throughout our relatively short inhabitation on the planet, we have been rather clumsily attempting to evolve our primitive minds presumably for a greater good by learning from our initial binary mistakes.... Read more

Big Data, analytics and the IoT – The force is strong!

September 16, 2016 - Future Workplace • Insight

A cacophony of data, a wall of zeros and ones, if you will. We’re in the midst of a digital revolution where the terabytes of non-persistent data libraries that are regularly produced by enterprises, sensors, engines, utility companies, mobile phones, PCs and tablets (you get my drift) are meeting... Read more

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Windows 10: The future workplace catalyst

September 5, 2016 - Analysis • Employee experience • Future Workplace • Mobility

The hyper-connected world that we now inhabit continues to alter the way we live, work and play. The perception of what a workplace (and workforce) really is and, most importantly, could be in the future is consistently being broken down and re-imagined. So when Microsoft launched its latest OS... Read more

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