The modern workplace – what will your workplace of the future look like?

Cutting complexity and making optimum use of modern technologies increases productivity.
One essential factor in this respect is simple and efficient collaboration and communication. This is all the more important in light of increasing diversity. Diverse teams are the key to the future – within the business and in conjunction with clients, suppliers, partners or freelancers. Sharing and collective editing of documents must be supported. Quick ballots in chats and video conferences with the virtual team are becoming a routine feature. New methods of working that don′t depend on a particular platform, terminal device, generation or discipline need to be introduced. The modern workplace supports these goals.

Agility is the key to success. Your business needs to be able to pick up on market changes quickly and flexibly and to respond appropriately.
Agile management depends on an ingrained culture of trust. Employees are encouraged to be proactive, developing individual solutions quickly and in direct contact with the client. Waiting to be assigned tasks from on high is a thing of the past. As are the paralyzing processes that arise through rigid bureaucratic planning, controlling and reporting activities. The focus is on self-responsibility and self-organization. This requires new ways of working and new technologies in the workplace.
Change management and leadership form the foundation of every successful and agile business. The modern working environment gives employees more scope to show what they can do. Successful transformation usually requires changes to the organization′s corporate culture – there′s no such thing as a universal solution.

Every employee wants to avoid complexity in the workplace and be able to work efficiently. Getting information from A to B should be a swift and straightforward process. If the company′s IT is failing to deliver here, this tends to lead to the use of unauthorized hardware and third-party IaaS and SaaS products. This results in a proliferation of IT and unmonitored data exchange beyond the company′s control.
Bans have little effect here! The Management team and CIOs need to offer alternatives that meet compliance requirements and are user-friendly to boot. If the business provides employees with a suitable solution in their familiar work environment, there will be no need for shadow IT. And compliance requirements will be met automatically.