The Ultimate Guide To Supercharge The Modern Workplace

From getting started to stepping up, organization leaders must steer the ship to enable their global workforce to operate more efficiently than ever before

Bastian Lossen, Andreas Rudolph und Jasmin Alic, Michael Schwan, Michael Schwan

• Publisher: tredition
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783347267695
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Careers

The so called 'new reality' is here and it is here to stay. The 'new normal' is a reality with a mix of home, mobile, and classic office environment. We run a software and consulting house serving clients around the world and when the pandemic hit in 2020, we had to adjust quickly. In the beginning uncertainty about future was strong, and we had to change the way how we do business. Our consulting teams changed from 41% remote consulting to 98% remote consulting. And did not lose one client. On the software side, we have been lucky as our solution improves data collaboration in remote settings, we benefited winning new partners and clients.Based on our own experience, many conversations within the team (yes, we also had to home school), with clients, partners and by an active sounding of the market we decided to put thisbook together. What this book is not is a scientific review of work behavior and a description of productivity losses and gains. The book was planned as the ultimate practical guide tonavigate the Modern Workplace. The three chapters structure the book in a first part where we gather some facts and figures on the quick changes caused by the pandemic. In the second chapter we give helpful tips and advice on how to work remotely and finally we gathered ideas how to lead yourself and others within the 'new reality'. We hope you enjoy the reading.

Collaboration: The holy grail of the remote workforce

Dealing with large volumes of digital files, data insights, and collaboration requests is a daily occurrence for the remote worker of today.

It is how team members deal with all of this information that determines how they actually perform. The name of the game is Collaboration!

Make it fast & seamless

Collaborate in real-time

Make all data accessible

Set access rights to specific data

Focus on standardized reports

Make reports comprehensive

Embed data into communication

Choose powerful tools

Excursion: Collaborative Business Intelligence

Dealing with data is very complex and many companies struggle to take full advantage of their data treasure. In some cases, handling data is more complex and costly than the benefits gained from the information.

Dealing with data becomes a liability, a cost factor and does not deliver the competitive advantage it should. The result - many businesses struggle to arrive in the digital age.

The first reason is, that while integrating, visualizing and sharing data, it is common to underestimate the key resource: the human factor. Human-to-Human dialog is often undervalued, where human communication continues to be very important.

Miscommunication in data management and business intelligence leads to significant inefficiencies and mistakes. This challenge became even more obvious during the current global pandemic where teams need to collaborate more and more in remote setup utilizing a digital infrastructure .

Modern Collaborative Business Intelligence must be Data-Point-Depended

In times where automation becomes the flavor of the month and machine learning and artificial intelligence are key trends, the data- po¡nt-spec¡f¡c human-to-human dialog is essential in delivering any data driven business strategy.

Misinterpretation of the information or miscommunication between different parties in any data-point specific dialog can lead to significant mistakes and misjudgment – e.g. a top management team discussing the quarterly results of a company. Misinterpretation of important data-points can lead to strategic mistakes which can result in opportunity cost or negative real cost impact for a company.

During data-specific management or other business conversations common and highly valued communication tools like Zoom, Slack, Microsoft’s Teams or Skype have limitations. What is missing is the possibility to link the con...