196. Optimizing Workplace Collaboration in the Digital Age

Using Collaboration Technology to Drive Operational Improvement . Besides the huge shift to remote work caused by the global pandemic, many other changes have occurred in the workplace that employers need to understand and incorporate into their workforce strategy. On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Mark Settle, 7-time CIO and author, who explains how next generation collaboration tools are giving the evolving workplace the capabilities needed to thrive in the digital age. . Here’s what we talked with Mark about: * The purpose of workplace collaboration * Notable changes to the workplace besides the shift to work-from-home * Interesting findings from the future of work surveys * How IT has responded to the collaboration needs of the COVID-altered workplace * How the current era of collaboration tools address the way the workplace has evolved * Three key areas that the next generation of tools will address * Technologies fundamental to the construction of next-gen collaboration tools * How desktop automation fits into workplace collaboration . Link to the white paper mentioned in this podcast: https://medium.com/work-bench/....re-imagining-the-nex . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!