Humanizing the Digital Workplace
Consortium
Focus on putting the human in the center, rather than merely
focusing on adopting new technology.
Humanizing the Digital
Workplace
Consortium
Focus on putting the human in the center, rather than merely focusing on adopting new technology.
The consortium is a group of industry and academic experts
dedicated to putting people at the center of today’s
technology-driven enterprise experience.
We aim to enable business professionals to efficiently manage
their work and use technology to be more productive.
The consortium is a group of industry and academic experts dedicated to putting people at the center of today’s technology-driven enterprise experience.
We aim to enable business professionals to efficiently manage their work and use technology to be more productive.
Consortium Goals
To identify solutions and offer guidance to organizations about creating people-centric
approaches that improve worker productivity, creativity, and wellbeing.
To identify solutions and offer guidance to organizations about creating people-centric approaches that improve worker productivity, creativity, and wellbeing.
The consortium is comprised of a
multidisciplinary team of best-selling
authors, world-class researchers and
technology experts
The consortium is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of best-selling authors, world-class researchers and technology experts
The group is dedicated to:
• Identifying the challenges of information overload in the
workplace
• Investigating why information workers are hindered, rather
than liberated, by new ‘productivity’ technology
• Unravelling and addressing adverse effects of technology on
worker productivity
• Identifying the challenges of
information overload in the
workplace
• Investigating why
information workers are
hindered, rather than
liberated, by new
‘productivity’ technology
• Unravelling and addressing
adverse effects of technology
on worker productivity
Meet Our Members
Insights
Our members offer their knowledge, foresight and experience to organizations around the world who wish to solve their issues regarding information and application overload and other issues related to enterprise tech becoming a barrier to productivity.

Augmenting Humanity
As machine learning and AI take shape in the workplace, expect augmented intelligence to reshape the future of work. Areas with high repetitive, high volume, high nodes of interactions, and high complexity will most likely be moved to automation and AI. Skill sets that require creativity, new levels of complexity, and physical presence will remain in human hands. This augmentation of humanity will reshape not only how we work, but also determine where we work, what we work on, when we work and why we work.
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman of Constellation Research, Inc. He’s also the author of the best-selling book Disrupting Digital Business.

Rise of the Remote Workers
Organizations will optimize the remote worker experience by implementing new processes and tools that increase engagement so businesses can empower people to work where they are most comfortable. Giving employees the power to choose their location during work hours is an important step towards increasing productivity throughout an organization.
Amy Morin
Psychotherapist, lecturer, author, and internationally recognized expert in mental strength. Her book 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do is an international bestseller.

Working in Transit
As we enter the era of autonomous cars, mobile work stations are going to be much more elaborate and sophisticated. Soon, workers will be able to set up a whole work station in their back seat, and it won’t be much different than sitting in an office.
Dr. Paul Root Wolpe
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics at Emory University. Dr. Wolpe is the author of over 125 articles, editorials, and book chapters in sociology, medicine, and bioethics.

Measuring Productivity
We’ll see a rise of analytics that tell, from an objective standpoint, who is more productive, who will stay/leave a job, where the greatest source of qualified recruits are coming from, etc. We have a very small percentage of organizations using analytics in this way (only 15% right now), and we’ll start to see more organizations adopting this in the coming year(s).
Alexandra Levit
formerly nationally syndicated workplace columnist for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times as well as best-selling author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College

A New Path to Employee Engagement
Knowledge workers will adopt quickly to new ways of working with information and collaborating with colleagues, if we can inspire them by offering creative and user-friendly solutions, and surprise them with exceptional service at any touchpoint throughout the entire user journey. Young talents will choose their employer also based on a modern working environment and their perceived working culture.
Manfred Leu
Head of Digital Workplace User Adoption & Consulting and a Director of IT at Swiss Re.

AI Gets Pragmatic:
The promise of AI starts to be realized, but in limited, practical ways. Rather than the job-eating technology that people fear, AI will power cloud applications that are able to anticipate information a worker will need to complete a task and provide it proactively. It sounds counter-intuitive, but AI will actually help humanize technology.
David Lavenda
Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy, harmon.ie.

Rise of the Remote Workers
Organizations will optimize the remote worker experience by implementing new processes and tools that increase engagement so businesses can empower people to work where they are most comfortable. Giving employees the power to choose their location during work hours is an important step towards increasing productivity throughout an organization.
Aaron Levy
Psychotherapist, Lecturer and Author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.

Rise of the Remote Workers
Organizations will optimize the remote worker experience by implementing new processes and tools that increase engagement so businesses can empower people to work where they are most comfortable. Giving employees the power to choose their location during work hours is an important step towards increasing productivity throughout an organization.
Manfred Leu
Psychotherapist, Lecturer and Author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.
Videos
Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
Alexandra Levit, best selling author and journalist, talks about issues in the digital workplace.
Aaron Levy, founder and CEO of Raise the Bar Consulting, talks about Technology and Millenials.
Dr Paul Root Wolpe, Professor of Bioethics at Emory University, talks about the ethical implications of technology addiction.
Aaron Levy, founder and CEO of Raise the Bar Consulting, talks about Technology and Millenials.
Alexandra Levit, best selling author and journalist, talks about issues facing people in the digital workplace today.
Dr Paul Root Wolpe, Professor of Bioethics at Emory University, talks about the ethical implications of technology addiction.
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Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin - YouTube
Nov 12, 2015
It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength…
News
The nature of work is changing but are organisations ready to embrace remote working? As technological advances, such as autonomous cars and virtual reality (VR) take hold, it will be interesting to see how employers’ views shift when the ‘work from anywhere’ paradigm begins to infiltrate new parts of our daily life. Read more
We face increased competition for our attention at home and in the workplace, and this is cause for concern. Increased use of addictive technology makes it hard for us to focus for extended periods of time. While this hardly news, what is new is that industry insiders are, for the first time, starting to take action to mitigate these effects. Read more
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