Employee Collaboration Trends & Inspiration
2
AGENDA
1. Introductions & Objectives
2. Trends in Work & Collaboration
3. Inspiration
4. Thought-starters
INTRODUCTIONS & OBJECTIVES
Who we are
Our hunt
Objectives
Our POV
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INTRODUCTIONS
GABE WEISS
Strategy
Director
@geedub_nyc
LinkedIn
ROB MURRAY
Research
Director
@robertnmurray
LinkedIn
KUMAR SAURABH
Technology
Director
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OBJECTIVES
Our Hunt
IT & HR Clients have asked SapientNitro to provide points of view on workforce
collaboration systems, trends and insights as informed by our experience and thought-
leadership in this space
Our Objective
Inspire and inform IT & HR team leadership to inform vision, transformation, systems
roadmap and approach for workforce collaboration and intranet systems
6
POINT OF VIEW: TODAY’S CURRENT STATE
The employee work life experience is undergoing a transformation
• People and culture move faster than business technology and corporate legislation
• There is a widening gap between employee needs/expectations and corporate
capabilities/policies and culture
• Increasingly, employees are filling that gap on their own
• Brands like Microsoft, Google, DropBox, Evernote, etc. are eager to fill that gap
• Corporate stakeholders such as IT, HR and Facilities are addressing this problem
along three fault lines:
1. Improved systems and tools
2. Simplified policies and improved culture and workspace
3. Improved communication, quick wins and a focus on adoption
7
POINT OF VIEW: FUTURE STATE
While the responsibility for the present and
implications for the future fall among HR,
FACILITIES and IT…
…IT is uniquely positioned to lead
transformation by provisioning and
guiding today’s employees – to help them
navigate tools, policies and culture - to
outfit and enable them to provide maximum
and sustained business value
8
MANY COMPANIES ARE ADDRESSING THIS SPACE
9
Large cultures with legacy systems,
processes and beliefs are difficult to
change but changing the culture is more
important and effective than changing the
technology
• Scale agility
• Collect massive amounts of data
• Disseminate data & insights quickly
• Focus on simple objectives
• Demonstrate progress
NOT JUST BUSINESS
TRENDS IN WORK & COLLABORATION
Challenges
Observations
Context
11
CHALLENGE: WORKLIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
WORKSPACE
CULTURE TOOLS
12
CHALLENGE: EMPLOYEE WORKAROUNDS/ADOPTION
WORKSPACE
CULTURE TOOLS
EMPLOYEES
Employees (can) work outside the system
13
CHALLENGE: STAKEHOLDER COORDINATION
FACILITIES
HR IT
EMPLOYEES
How do we entice them back to the center?
14
CHANGE PERCEPTION OF IT: FROM
15
CHANGE PERCEPTION OF IT: TO
Only 15% of employees say they are
completely satisfied with their technology
department's understanding of what they
need to be successful
Forrester
What happened?
How did we get here?
18
1920’s1920’s
STATIC HIERARCHIESSTATIC HIERARCHIES
19
1930’s1930’s
INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITYINDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITY
20
PAN AM
1940’s1940’s
INFORMATION SCARCITYINFORMATION SCARCITY
21
1950’s1950’s
EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSEFFICIENCY OF PROCESS
22
1960’s1960’s
WORK IS A PLACE YOU GOWORK IS A PLACE YOU GO
23
WORK WAS
STATIC HIERACHIES
INDIVIUDAL PRODUCTIVITY
INFORMATION SCARCITY
EFFICIENCY OF PROCESS
WORK IS A PLACE YOU GO
64% of employees believe technology will
improve their job prospects
PWC
Past is prologue. What’s changed?
26
WORK DEFINITIONS ARE CHANGING
HOW WHERE WHEN
WITH
WHOM
WITH
WHAT WHY
27
HOW WE WORK
HOW
Mobile
Wearables
Devices
Connectivity
Apps
Non‐enterprise tools
Email
Chat
Social
28
HOW WE WORK
HOW
Less voice
No voice mail
No desk phones
Conference calls & 800#’s
29
HOW WE WORK
HOW
Email
Text
Alerts
30
HOW WE WORK
HOW
Standing desks
Who needs a desk?
31
HOW WE WORK
HOW
Collaboration space
vs
Individual space
VS
32
WHERE WE WORK
WHERE
Non‐office
Definition of office
Collaboration vs Focus "If you ask people where they go when they 
really need to get something done, very few 
people will ever say the office and if they do, 
they’ll say really early in the mornings or really 
late at night or on the weekends when no one’s 
around," says Jason Fried. This, of course, cuts 
into people’s family and personal time.”
33
WHEN WE WORK
WHEN
Definition of work day
Weekends
Vacations
Evenings
Phone as alarm
34
WHERE WE WORK
WHERE
Commute
Value of office – ROI
Face Time vs Me Time
Client Site, Team Site, Home Office
Commute Times Are Increasing:
“L.A. drivers experience an overall 25‐
minute delay on a commute that 
should take 30 minutes, and spend 95 
hours a year stuck in traffic, according 
to the TomTom report.”
TomTom Traffic Index
MEASURING CONGESTION WORLDWIDE
35
WHERE WE WORK
WHERE
What office?
This is progress?
36
WITH WHOM WE
WORK
WITH
WHOM
Gensler Scrum Model of Work
Groups
Teams
Processes
External sources
Collaboration
Vendors
Friends
37
WITH WHAT
WE WORK
WITH
WHAT
Sanctioned Rogue
Apps
Tools
Software
Mine, Yours, Ours
Access
Privacy
Speed
Convenience
Security
Collaboration
38
WHY WE WORK
WHY
From: 
Monetary Compensation
To: 
• Purpose
• Recognition
• Flexibility
• Autonomy
• Transparency
• Growth
• And…Monetary 
Compensation
From:   Employee Satisfaction 
To:  Employee Engagement
39
EMPLOYEES HAVE CHANGED
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THE SHIFT
WORK WAS
STATIC HIERACHIES
INDIVIUDAL PRODUCTIVITY
INFORMATION SCARCITY
EFFICIENCY OF PROCESS
WORK IS A PLACE YOU GO
WORK IS
DYNAMIC NETWORKS
COLLECTIVE VALUE CREATION
INFORMATION ABUNDANCE
EFFECTIVENESS OF OUTCOMES
WORK IS WHAT YOU DO
Globally, on average 13% of employees
are fully engaged and look forward to
going to work. The US has the highest
engagement at 29%.
Gallup
INSPIRATION
Where has IT been and what opportunities are there
IT has also gone through a transformation…
44
1950’s1950’s
CAN YOU CRUNCH MY DATA?CAN YOU CRUNCH MY DATA?
45
1970’s1970’s
CAN YOU CRUNCH MY DATA, FASTER?CAN YOU CRUNCH MY DATA, FASTER?
46
The Machine…The Machine…
WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS?
CAN YOU FIX IT?
WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS?
CAN YOU FIX IT?
47
The Software…The Software…
HELP…?HELP…?
48
1990’s1990’s
HELP ME CONNECT…HELP ME CONNECT…
49
2000’s “IT guy”2000’s “IT guy”
…AND GET OUR STUFF TO 
EACH OTHER
…AND GET OUR STUFF TO 
EACH OTHER
50
2010’s2010’s
WHY CAN’T OURS BE LIKE THEIRS?WHY CAN’T OURS BE LIKE THEIRS?
51
2010’s+2010’s+
CAN WE WORK HERE? CAN WE WORK HERE? 
67% of employees use a personal device at
work, regardless of the office’s official BYOD
policy.
Virtual Bridges
67% of employees use a personal device at
work, regardless of the office’s official BYOD
policy.
Virtual Bridges
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A DISCONNECTED WORLD MADE FOR A DIFFERENT MOMENT
System A System C System E
Document
Storage
Policy
MGT
Community
Sites
Knowledge
MGT
Etc.Capabilities
Systems
Services and Features
System B System D System F
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EXPERIENCE DESIGN CAN UNITE AND FREE IT
System BSystem A System C System D
Other
Systems
Document
Storage
Policy
MGT
Community
Sites
Knowledge
MGT
OtherCapabilities
UNIFIED
EXPERIENCE
Employee Experience Layer
Platforms
Sub-Systems
Intranet Knowledge
Management Portal
Web Mobile Tablet
Channel
Social Search
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OPPORTUNITIES
Business
Intelligence
Experience Design blends these into a seamless world that lets employees focus 
more on being productive than thinking about productivity…
Search
Curation
Collaboration
Agents Voice
Office
Space
Email
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Office space is being
reimagined to bring people
back and address changing
work challenges
• Becomes worth the
commute
• Trumps isolated home
• Affording a better way to
work and live
• Designed for
collaboration or not
OFFICE SPACE
& FACILITIES:
DESIRE & USE
58
CURATION
PUBLISHING
TOOLS:
CONNECT
UNRELATED
CONTENT USING
HUMANS
No-coding publishing
tools can curate
content from existing
systems
59
EMAIL IS UNDER
ATTACK BY
INNOVATION:
EMPLOYEES GO
ROGUE
Consumer social nets
shift to business
New-comers challenge
convention
60
COLLABORATION
IS THE NEW
SOCIAL:
Enterprise heavies
finally mobilizing
61
SEARCH DRIVES
INFORMATION
ABUNDANCE:
New approaches are
emerging that
proactively bring up
the content in the right
context
62
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE:
EVERYMAN
AGGREGATED
ACCESS
• BI tools are as disjointed
as systems and platforms
• Meta-platforms emerging
• Unstructured data tools
unlock new ways to
inform actionable
decision making
63
VOICE DRIVEN
CONCIERGES:
do the light
lifting to speed
an answer
• Ask and you receive…
• Digital assistants take on
the repetitive tasks and
employees will come to
rely on them
64
PREDICTIVE AI &
AGENTS :
Interprets data
with context and
situational
awareness and
decides what to
do for you
• Personal algorithms
learn your wants and
needs and decide
FUTURE: LESS Q, MORE JARVIS
66
THE LATEST JARVIS ACTIVELY MANAGES THE ENTIRE TEAM
By 2025, artificial intelligence will be built into the
algorithmic architecture of countless functions of
business and communication, increasing
relevance, reducing noise, increasing efficiency,
and reducing risk across everything from finding
information to making transactions.
PewResearch Center
INSPIRATION
Technology implementation is just the beginning…
Successful operalization depends on
communication, engagement and changing the
cultural way of working
70
IT TRANSFORMATION SUCCESS RELIES ON
1. Improved systems and tools
2. Simplified policies and improved culture and workspace
3. Improved communication, quick wins and a focus on adoption
71
SUCCESS IMPERATIVES
• Understand employee needs
• Map all the users of all the systems
• Sunset – someone has to say no; no rogues or
supporting old stuff just to accommodate
• Freedom (and empowerment!) in a Framework
• Scaled Agility
• Culture is a Technology Platform
• Tap into the Passionate Adopters
• Buy-in, support and engagement from leadership is
key
• Perceptual concept of progress – fast, ongoing, clear
• Training
• Transparency, involvement and co-ownership
• Internal alliances
• Pilot, test, learn, iterate…
THOUGHT-STARTERS
THOUGHT STARTER 1
Name your initiative. Brainstorm names around:
• Transformation
• Reemergence
• Consolidation
• Empowerment
• The Future State
THOUGHT STARTER 2
Process simplification
How can you work with Compliance and
Security to modernize policy?
THOUGHT STARTER 3
Simple change that can make big
perceptual, tipping point-like impact
Example: “Fast wifi, that just works everywhere”
THOUGHT STARTER 4
Embrace rogues as Pilots…
Assess rogue technology uses; work with owners
to make compliant and release more broadly
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