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Pragmatism and Innovation: The Perfect Partnership in Uncertain Times
Against the backdrop of a somewhat tumultuous economic landscape, a new trend is emerging: many companies are assessing the environment and deciding to direct their innovation efforts inwards, towards the more pragmatic matters of organizational efficiency and agility. When it comes to nurturing both long-term growth and customer value, this is a strategy that makes sense.
Innovation Operational agility Organisational design Post-Covid workplace
How Organizations Can Accelerate Growth and Self-Fund Their Digital Journey
We’re experiencing a time of constant disruption. Global pandemics, geopolitical struggles and economic challenges have leaders looking for ways to move beyond merely surviving. How can businesses capitalize on constant change, transforming even when budgets are tight, finding talent is tough, and legacy systems can hold us back from innovating faster on behalf of customers?
Digital transformation Operational agility Organisational design Post-Covid workplace Strategy
Let’s Design a Future That Puts Humans First
While science fiction often conjures visions of a future filled with threats that we can imagine, we need to prepare for threats that we have yet begun to dream up. And we’ll do that by focusing on humans – all humans – and the environment, and their combined sustainability.
Diversity, equity & inclusion Employee wellbeing Post-Covid workplace Social impact
Show Them Some Respect: Doing Better At Diversity and Inclusion
How have employee relationships and experiences changed over the course of the pandemic? NTT DATA Romania sought to find out, with results showing a wide range of perceptions: some celebrated the new forms of communication and others were dispirited by the decrease in in-office interaction. This leads to a challenging but crucial question: how can we make sure we all feel included in our organizations?
Diversity, equity & inclusion Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Team dynamic
Leadership First, Location Second
No matter how you feel about it, remote work is here to stay. As leaders, how confident and comfortable you are with this shift will depend on your own experiences, background, and even your seniority. There are very real changes involved in working remotely or in hybrid teams, but there is good news: when we take the time to be intentional, the proper courses of action become clear.
Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Strategy Trust
A Recipe for Hybrid Working
How have employee relationships and experiences changed over the course of the pandemic? NTT DATA Romania sought to find out, with results showing a wide range of perceptions: some celebrated the new forms of communication and others were dispirited by the decrease in in-office interaction. This leads to a challenging but crucial question: how can we make sure we all feel included in our organizations?
Employee wellbeing EX Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture
Designing the Future Workplace
The impact of the pandemic and advancing technologies have made designing the future workplace a complex task. As well as focusing on flexibility and comfort, a good workplace design must support collaboration, interaction and innovation – and have connectivity at its heart. The interoperability and opportunities presented by the metaverse may hold one of the keys to overcoming legacy problems and providing your employees with the best possible experience.
AR Hybrid working Organisational design Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture VR
People Embody the Success of an Organization
Many businesses are struggling to make the right decisions about how to engage their people in this new, almost unrecognizable world of work. Employee engagement is down, reports of burnout are getting worse and worker satisfaction in many organizations is low. Now more than ever, success for any business lies in creating a culture that helps its people grow. But it’s one thing to say that you want to be people-centric, and another to create an environment where this ethos is upheld. In-depth feedback around employee perceptions ensures companies can walk the talk.
EX Post-Covid workplace Recruitment Shaping culture Talent management
The Hybrid Office: A Work in Progress
As interactions between corporate teams reach the point where virtual is as effective as in-person, the very nature and purpose of the physical office has permanently changed. Hybrid working has proven productive for organizations and rewarding for individuals, and is here to stay. Rather than cling to the past, we must embrace the opportunities of this new post-pandemic business environment – and as such improve speed of decision-making, efficiency of operations and the wellbeing of the entire workforce.
EX Hybrid working Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Talent management
Creating Balance, Transforming Work, Empowering People
Covid has changed how people view their professional trajectories, as well as the way in which companies perceive their employees. Leaders now have the opportunity to experiment, testing hybrid work formulas in order to secure both the health of the company and of the individuals working within it. At the core is balance, fairness and inclusivity.
Employee wellbeing Post-Covid workplace Recruitment Shaping culture Talent management Trust
The Future of the Workforce Is Here, Are You Ready?
With so much upheaval to the work environment in just a few years, our expectations of and relationship with work have changed completely. How can organizations prepare for these shifts as employees set new boundaries and seek purpose at work?
Post-Covid workplace Purpose Working practices
Hybrid Happiness: Designing the Work Environment of the Future
With organizations currently looking at an increasingly detached workforce and a fierce talent war, a human-centered approach to HR is certainly gaining traction. This is where design thinking comes into play – to remain competitive, companies need to involve people in co-designing an environment where they want to show up.
Design thinking EX Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Team dynamic
Employee Wellbeing is the Core of Connected Workplaces
Leaders will need to learn to manage wellbeing and the social aspects of team relationships, if they want to successfully build connection and productivity in the workplace of the future.
Employee wellbeing EX Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Team dynamic
How Data Can Enhance the In-Office Employee Experience
In a world where talent is demanding flexibility and employers want connection, data can provide the answer. Using the data you already have available in your office building can help you both to maximize resources, and make the office attractive to employees.
Employee wellbeing EX Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace
Responsible Freedom: Creating the Connected Future Workplace
The pandemic forced businesses and organizations to abandon the physical office and adopt remote working. But with Covid now seemingly behind us, and hybrid practices well-established, is there a danger that without face-to-face interaction, organizations will lose the very thing that keeps them connected?
Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Strategy Talent management
Essential Skills in a Digital Future
Digitally enabled collaboration through hybrid working models now seems critical to all our futures. The question is, are you ready? Alongside technological advances, your employees will need new skills and capabilities to thrive.
EX Hybrid working L&D Post-Covid workplace Talent management
Leading Inclusively in a Covid-19 World
Inclusive leadership is more critical than ever as we continue to navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic. Leaders are working to maintain productivity, collaboration, and innovation during these challenging times. Those who can also address amplified issues around inclusion and belonging in a distributed workforce will be primed for superior organisational performance in the future.
Diversity, equity & inclusion Employee wellbeing Post-Covid workplace Trust
Amplifying Employee Satisfaction With Analytics
Covid has changed almost everything about how we work, and now HR is undergoing a revolution. HR’s most important role, arguably, is improving the employee experience – in turn contributing to profitability, competitiveness and, of course, the happiness of the workforce. Here’s how data and analytics support this aim.
Data strategy & BI EX Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture
White Paper: The Big Pivot – From Disruption to Digital Transformation
No industry has been left untouched by the pandemic. Since its onset, companies have been in a constant state of heightened flux: adjusting, recovering or strategising for the future, and all eyes have been on the technology that has helped carry them through. As the economy starts to recover, organisations must pivot to meet any challenge head-on.
Breakthrough technologies Innovation Post-Covid workplace Whitepaper Working practices
The Future of Work is More Flexible, Greener and Smarter
Smarter and more sustainable workplaces are essential for all businesses as we tentatively emerge from the restrictions of the pandemic. Technology is pivotal in not only providing a seamless user experience but also in building a greener IT strategy.
Breakthrough technologies Post-Covid workplace Team dynamic Working practices
Achieving Sustainable Growth By Attracting Young Talent
Worldwide retention of top talent has been an organisational issue for some time now. The recent ‘turnover tsunami’ headlines show us the problem isn’t getting better. Here’s how NTT DATA Business Solutions Turkey, Middle East and North Africa have managed to retain 97% of new employees in the last five years.
EX Post-Covid workplace Recruitment Talent management
White Paper: Lessons from the future
The sudden shock of the changes brought about as a result of coronavirus has passed, and we are now settling into what is likely to be a long period of working from home. Our sister companies, particularly NTT DATA Italia, have been coping with this situation for some time already, and we have benefitted from their experience. We would like to share some of what they have discovered.
Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Team dynamic Whitepaper Working practices
The Surprisingly Simple Formula for Smart Working
As we enter a new era of work, three key elements can help employee and employer alike respond favourably to the shift: communication, learning and a reimagined workplace. Taken together, these elements offer a model for truly smart working.
EX Hybrid working Post-Covid workplace Talent management
Welcome to the third issue of CXO Magazine
Welcome to the third issue of CXO Magazine. Our theme for this issue is ‘Agility in the Age of Disruption’
Issue welcome Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy Welcome Letters
Leading the Agility Shift: Slowing Down to Go Fast
Organisations looking to urgently improve agility across the enterprise will find that their leaders across all levels need support in making a mindset shift. To make this shift is neither instant nor effortless, organisations must make, model and coach for it to ensure the success of agile initiatives.
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture Strategy
The Third Way: A Paradigm Shift in the Organisational and Social Models of the Workplace
In Italy, an experiment is redefining everything we know about the modern workplace. A ‘zero kilometre’ office, designed to promote relationships that transcend generational and sectoral boundaries - and overcome the conundrum of working safely and effectively in the post-Covid world.
EX Organisational design Post-Covid workplace Working practices
White Paper: Agility in the Time of Covid
How is the Covid-19 pandemic different from other crises, and how can organisations build resilience? A well kept secret of the most successful companies across the globe is speed-to-learn. If you can learn quickly, you can change quickly, and if you can change quickly, you can capitalise on crises, extreme events, and the ever-shifting inclinations of consumers.
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy Whitepaper
Five lessons learned from the Covid-19 crisis shaping our approach to citizen service delivery
Crises are usually accompanied by a host of challenges to overcome. Vicki Chauhan, Head of Public Sector at NTT DATA UK, is focusing on opportunities for improvement born out of the recent global pandemic.
Innovation Post-Covid workplace Social impact Working practices
Does Crisis Create Lessons for Successful Business Change?
We often display more resilience and inventiveness in times of crises than during business-as-usual. Can our response to pandemics and other devastating events provide us with lessons for change and innovation?
Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Shaping culture
Going Systemic: Surviving And Thriving In The Uncertainty Economy
Future-proofing our organisations is only possible when we start to see the world through a new lens, and adjust to conditions of uncertainty with radical rethinking.
Design & UX Operational agility Post-Covid workplace Strategy
The New Connectivity
A new kind of connectivity has emerged from the global health crisis and ensuing economic challenges of the last few years. Advancing technologies coupled with new ways of living and working have changed our needs for connection. With these changes, the corporate landscape must be reimagined.
CX EX Post-Covid workplace Working practices