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Build a Digital Workspace Strategy

Ensure people spend less time searching, more time getting work done while working remotely.

  • IT must figure out what a digital workspace is, why they’re building one, and what type they want.
  • Remote work creates challenges that cannot be solved by technology alone.
  • Focusing solely on technology risks building something the business doesn’t want or can’t use.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Building a smaller digital workspace doesn’t mean that the workspace will have a smaller impact on the business.

Impact and Result

  • Partner with the business to create a team of digital workspace champions.
  • Empower employees with a tool that makes remote work easier.

Build a Digital Workspace Strategy Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should partner with the business for building a digital workspace, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Identify the digital workspace you want to build

Create a list of benefits that the organization will find compelling and build a cross-functional team to champion the workspace.

3. Identify initiatives and a high-level roadmap

Take an agile approach to building your digital workspace.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Guided Implementation 1: Identify the digital workspace you want to build
  • Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges. Review how digital workspaces can change by IT role.
  • Call 2: Identify and discuss in-scope benefits, metrics, and goals.
  • Call 3: Review project leadership, project team, and operational roles

Guided Implementation 2: Identify high-level requirements
  • Call 1: Introduce value proposition activity. Identify service provider roles to analyze.
  • Call 2: Review service provider value proposition diagrams. Identify business roles to analyze.
  • Call 3: Discuss requirements for policies, people, and organizational processes.
  • Call 4: Discuss requirements for information, technology, and service providers.

Guided Implementation 3: Identify initiatives and a high-level roadmap
  • Call 1: Introduce agile project management. Identify initiatives and phases to include on your roadmap.
  • Call 2: Introduce scrum poker. Estimate the effort and complexity of project phases.
  • Call 3: Finalize the executive presentation.

Author

Ken Weston

Contributors

  • Andrew Kratz, President, Social Edge Consulting
  • Kieran Kelly, Managing Director, Sei Mani
  • Toni Portmann, Co-Founder & CEO, Walkabout Workplace
  • Robert Oh, Executive Vice President, Digital Transformation, Doosan Group
  • Dwayne Weppler, Manager, Corporate Communications, Igloo Software
  • Nathan Mote, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Citrix
  • Danelle Peddell, Director, Project Management Office, EMCO
  • Michael Corso, Manager, IT Operations, Edelman Financial Engines
  • Shubnum Nazeer, IT Strategy & GRC, Transnet Freight Rail
  • Brandt Melick, IT Director, City of Springfield, Oregon
  • Daniel Haigh, GIS Manager, City of Springfield, Oregon
  • 5 anonymous contributors
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