Chief Information Officers (CIO) have been instrumental in guiding organizations through what’s been a period of rapid transformation and technological innovation. The pace of these changes has thrown up several challenges, and coupled with a declining economy, CIOs will continue to contend with difficulties as they transform their business. As members of the board, CIOs will likely be looking to drive the business forward by putting the necessary tools & processes in place enabling employees to move closer towards their purpose and their goals. However, this will need to be a balancing ac ..read more

Chief HR Officers (CHROs) are at the very foundation of a business’ success. They typically adapt strategies which enable the right talent to thrive and provide the business with a competitive skillset. However, the remit of CHROs has had to expand to encompass more technology and borderless offices, as the business landscape dramatically changes due to the surge in remote and hybrid working, These parameters have thrown up several challenges for HR, which Fujitsu are helping address through propositions such as Fujitsu Work Life Shift. As part of this, Fujitsu supports organizations to implem ..read more

Office life is changing, and technology is facilitating it. What were once traditional models of working have quickly become outdated or inconvenient – both for businesses and employees. Change in this space is now occurring regularly due to the greater uptake of flexible working and borderless offices, proliferating the rise of smarter working set ups. In fact, borderless operations are now an employee expectation. But this can be difficult to offer to frontline workers; typically classed as those who interact directly with customers or other service providers. However, the sheer scale of ens ..read more

It’s no new assertion to say the workplace has been shifting because of the pandemic. So, driven by the demand for better public services, this has caused a push for increased efficiency, often on a minimal budget in public sectors around the world. The fast-changing landscape points to a necessary drive for greater agility. Good teamwork is a differentiating factor in a department’s ability to be agile. If teams can work seamlessly together, there’s less likely to be stop-start, which can cause huge delays to delivery, especially when you consider that 80% of an individual’s work is accomplis ..read more

Today’s workplace comprises of three elements: space, technology, and people. There needs to be some level of synergy between these areas, especially when it comes to technology and people. Currently every business is being tasked to do more with a lot less. Universally, employees are constantly trying to optimize their output with less of their previous budget. To make this task achievable processes must be as efficient as possible, which means having the best people enabled with the right tools. It’s a combination that can only be matched by aligning IT and HR processes – but it’s still comm ..read more

Our world has changed beyond recognition since the turn of the decade – and these changes are here to stay. In keeping with this trend, Gartner predicts that by the start of 2022, 51% of all knowledge workers worldwide will be working remotely, up from 27% in 2019; and almost all employees (98%) believe future meetings will include remote participants. With these different working patterns and people working together from different access points, businesses must ensure their cybersecurity measures are enhanced to keep their business safe and secure as employees work from various locations. As ..read more

Since the turn of the decade, our lives have been defined by disruption. But the impact on our livelihoods has been equally as profound, which is perhaps best summed up by the 47.4 million American workers who left their jobs voluntarily in 2021. Or, across the pond, the one in four of UK employees who are planning to leave their roles this year. Such is the extent of this vocational switcheroo, it’s even got its own name: The Great Resignation. But whatever you want to call it, one thing is clear: we’re currently living in an era of talent, where organizations are either scrambling to retain ..read more

This blog is co-authored by Melanie Lougee, Head of Employee Workflow Strategy, ServiceNow and Angela Abbot, Smart Working Proposition Manager NWE, Fujitsu.   Automation is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the modern workplace. Currently, many businesses have implemented automation on a mostly ad-hoc basis and are yet to scale across the enterprise. It means there’s still a need to ensure automation is part of the overall process of digital transformation, with people front and centre, to maximise its true potential. Here, we’ll be exploring the benefits of placing people at the he ..read more

  This blog is co-authored by ServiceNow’s VP and GM, Gretchen Alarcon and Fujitsu’s Rebecca Breakell. Did you know frontline workers make up 80% of the world’s workforce? For many, it’ll come as a surprise to learn that so many employees – some 2.7 billion of the global working population – don’t sit at a desk all day. But despite the sheer breadth of deskless workers, spanning essential industries such as healthcare and manufacturing, their wellbeing and the overall employee experience has been overlooked for years, compared to their desk-based counterparts. In a recent podcast, I was j ..read more

  This blog is co-authored by Citrix’s Donna Kimmel and Fujitsu’s Jason Fowler. Every good business requires skilled talent to fuel its operations. However, this is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve as while digital operations continue to gain popularity, the digital skills level of the general workforce fails to grow at the same speed. The disparity in digital skills poses a big problem that’s only going to hinder businesses’ access if nothing is done to bolster the digital capabilities of existing workforces. Currently, security engineering, AI, machine learning, data analysis ..read more