When planning to improve your digital workplace, perhaps replacing older platforms, you need a clear strategy to identify which features will have the most impact upon ways of working and deliver the biggest ROI. Without an agreed strategy, it will be difficult to manage people’s expectations and your project may not deliver the requirements, resulting in frustration for end users and all involved.
In this webinar, Sam Marshall will talk to Marcus Dervin about a new digital workplace planning framework from his book, Digital Transformation from the Inside Out. Marcus will explain six vital steps to identify and then solve the major challenges when delivering a brilliant digital workplace that people will love.
We’ll cover:
-Why you need a planning framework
-How to find people’s problems
-How to measure the severity of problems and prioritise them
-Assessing the best way to address each problem
-Getting budget approval
-How to implement the changes.
2. We will try to answer
some questions during
the webinar, and a few
more at the end.
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companies will email
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Housekeeping
3. Your webinar hosts
Sam Marshall
Managing Director
@SamMarshall
Marcus Dervin
Managing Director
@MarcusDervin
4. About ClearBox
ClearBox Consulting is a specialist independent consultancy
that believes in making the workplace a better and more
productive experience.We understand technology, but we
approach it from the people side first.
Our goal is to help organisations collaborate and communicate
more effectively.We specialise in intranets and the wider digital
workplace, including internal social media, enterprise mobile
strategies and real-time collaboration tools.
Sam Marshall
Managing Director
@SamMarshall
5. AboutWebVine
WebVine is a DigitalTransformation consultancy based in
Sydney with clients all over the world.WebVine’s mission is to
energise organisations by providing exceptional, innovative
technology solutions on Microsoft platforms.
WebVine has helped numerous organisations transform how
they work, counting big name firms such as Ernst andYoung
(EY) on their client list.WebVine has successfully delivered over
200 projects since the business launched in 2009.
Marcus Dervin
Managing Director
@MarcusDervin
6. What is the most
important aspect of
your digital workplace
project?
Poll
7. Agenda
About the book
DigitalTransformation & the Digital
Workplace
The 6I’s framework
What comes next?
11. Identify - Example Scorecard
No. Opportunity Description of current situation
1 Leave request form A PDF that’s printed and physically signed
2 Equipment check process Checking equipment done on paper, then transferred to Excel
3 Contract management process Many contracts created with multiple stakeholders, all sent over
email with confusion about current version
4 HR team task management Task management in the HR team needs improvement, everyone
does it their own way, and the ball is dropped at times
5 Performance appraisals process Current process all paper-based, tedious, time-consuming and
unsecure
6 Onboarding new employees
process
Onboarding new starters is riddled with problems, takes too long,
and causes frustration everywhere
7 Monthly reports Monthly reports are manually written up, which is time-consuming
and difficult to collate
13. Example Scorecard – Impact cost
No Opportunity
A B C AxBxC=D
End user cost
in wages per
month
Dx1.25=E Ex36=F
Hours per
end user per
month
End user avg
Hourly rate
# end users
affected
End user
Impact Cost
per month
End user
Impact Cost
over 3 years
1 Leave request form 1 $50 300 $15,000 $18,750 $675,000
2
Equipment check
process
2 $50 40 $4,000 $5,000 $180,000
3
Contract management
process
20 $50 8 $8,000 $10,000 $360,000
4
HR team task
management
3 $50 8 $1,200 $1,500 $54,000
5
Performance appraisals
process
1 $50 300 $15,000 $18,750 $675,000
6
Onboarding new
employees process
3 $50 30 $4,500 $5,625 $202,500
7 Monthly reports 3 $80 50 $12,000 $15,000 $540,000
8 Company events 0.5 $50 300 $7,500 $9,375 $337,500
14. Impact – Score Considerations
Productivity benefits
Number of people affected
Cultural benefits
Efficiency benefits
New opportunities
created
Learning and development
advantages
Potential future financial benefits
Knowledge harnessed
Support for the company’s
strategy
Alignment with the company’s
vision, mission or values
Alignment with the
future direction
IMPACT
SCORE
16. “Ideate” Score 1 - 10
Best fit for requirements
Ease of creation
Out-of-the-box solution
Existing platform
Minimal maintenance
Configuration only
Requiring little development
Poor fit for requirements
Needing constant support
Requiring heavy technical skills
Needing upgrades
Being an isolated solution
Requiring a different platform
Requiring a third party tool
17. Calculating Opportunity cost
No. Solution Technology
N U Q Y N-(U+Q+Y)= Z:
Total Impact
Cost over 3
years
New Solution
end user
Impact Cost
over 3 years
Ideate Cost
over 3 years
New Solution
Opp Owner
Cost - 3 years
Opportunity
Cost over 3
years
1a
Online leave request
form with automation
PowerApp $1083600 $168,750 $6,000 $67,500 $841,350
1b
Online leave request
form with automation
SharePoint $1083600 $135,000 $15,000 $54,000 $879,600
2a Equipment check app PowerApp $541,800 $22,500 $7,000 $135,000 $377,300
2b Equipment check app SharePoint $541,800 $18,000 $26,000 $135,000 $362,800
3 Contract mgt solution SharePoint $687,600 $90,000 $55,000 $216,000 $326,600
Current
cost
New cost
minus
=
Opportunity
cost
OR
Upside of
new solution
18. Ideate – Creating Solutions
“Inventing is a combination of
brains and materials.
The more brains you use, the
less materials you need.”
Charles Kettering, American Inventor, businessman and holder of 186 patents.
21. ITERATE
Opportunities for improvement:
• How are end users experiencing the solution?
• Measure actual benefits realised and compare against
expected benefits
• Review what you trimmed when you finalised the solution
• Have there been any technology advances on the platform that
will benefit the solution?
• Can you create useful dashboards or reports?
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Intro’s
Sam summarises take on what the book is about, MD comment
Questions:
What prompted you to write the book?
Oz DW world is very active, why is that?
You use a 'narrow' definition of DW that it's an 'intranet on steroids' - do you think the broad view is too much for people to take on?
The book subhead says “create a vibrant culture”. How have you seen digital transformation impact culture?
QUESTION
1st chapter “The problem with how we work”. you talk about knowledge workers having poor tools for the job and that impacts productivity. Why do you think people have overlooked this for so long?
>> Comment on need to persuade leaders that it matters …leading into the 6Is
Marcus explains scorecard
QUESTIONS:
Hard and soft benefits - what do your clients say matters most?
QUESTIONS
How can you quantify the benefit in a way that stands up to scrutiny?
QUESTIONS
How can you quantify the benefit in a way that stands up to scrutiny?
QUESTIONS
Who does this scoring?
QUESTION
At the end of the fictional StyleOut story we learn that the agency that delivers the DW for them also helped with a digital transformation. Do you think enough companies plan for that non-technical element?
QUESTION
Do you have any guidelines on what kind of budget per head an organisation should expect to spend on their digital workplace per year?
QUESTIONS
Aesthetics seem important to you and the examples from Injio look way better than most intranets. What case can you make for investing in good design?
For the Social Media chapter you had a nice party analogy – tell us about that [start small and only later let people spread into the garden ]
You’ve some great tips at the end for pitching to stakeholders and when to use things like POCs. What’s your top tip?
PROPOSED QUESTION
It’s a lot of work to get to this stage of the project, what are the problems that teams can face during implementation?
QUESTIONs:
Can you do agile if your budget culture is fixed price?
Which are the most common enhancements that are implemented after launch?
QUESTIONS:
At some point of have to ship a book. Anything you would have included in the book if you’d had more time?
What other books should be written in this area?
How can people get the book?