Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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The Number One Way To Get Employees To Use Collaboration Technologies

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Many of the themes surrounding the Future of Work are enabled by technology. The big challenge for many organizations involves getting employees to use new technologies such as collaboration tools and internal social networks. If employees do not use them, it makes it difficult for the components and themes involving the future of work to actually become possible for example flexible work, real-time feedback, or abolishing annual employee reviews. Typically, when technology is deployed within an organization, the focus is on its benefits to the organization as a whole. Pushing forward the benefits such as cost cutting, productivity, and making money for the organization does not always appeal to the employee as an individual benefit.[…]

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What Should You Invest In First, Technology Or Corporate Culture?

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Today’s Future in 5 comes to you from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I just came back from Santiago, Chile where I spoke to around 1,000 HR practitioners and leaders from many different companies in the Latin American and South American regions. After my talk, I was asked a question I thought would be a great topic for this week. When trying to drive change, should a company invest in the technology piece first, or invest in corporate culture first? […]

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Why you Should Treat your Physical Space like Software

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There is a popularized concept of using the lean approach when designing software. In this process you bring customers in, to test and iterate as you go along. Incremental changes are done instead of dumping all your eggs into one expensive basket. Basically, you make several small changes instead of just designing one thing and showing it to people. […]

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Why Smaller Companies Will Dominate The Future Of Work

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Oftentimes when I (and many others) talk about the future of work it’s in reference to larger companies, that’s not intentional it’s just where most of the conversations tend to gravitate towards. However, I actually think the future of work definitely favors the small organizations. In the latest episode of the #futurein5 I explore why I think the future of work favors the small! […]

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Want Privacy And Security? You Must Be Joking!

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Yesterday I gave a talk at PARC (Xerox) and one of the attendees asked me what I think about the future of privacy and security, to which I replied, “you must be joking.” The only way anyone can have any privacy today is you raise them from birth in the woods without being anywhere near technology of any kind. […]

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