Jacob Morgan
Jacob Morgan
I'm a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and futurist who explores what the future of work is going to look like and how to create great experiences so that employees actually want to show up to work. I've written three best-selling books which are: The Employee Experience Advantage (2017), The Future of Work (2014), and The Collaborative Organization (2012).
Aligning on Purpose
One of the things we can't neglect when thinking about the future of work is for organizations to align on a sense of purpose....
Enterprise Collaboration Technology Deployment Scenarios
I'm seeing a few trends around how organizations are deploying enterprise collaboration platforms. Typically one of four paths are taken which are: a...
The Gap Between the Consumer Web and the Enterprise
Much of what we are seeing in the enterprise is being fueled by the consumer web. For example if there would have been...
The Future of Work is NOT About Replacing Sharepoint and Email
Some still believe that the whole point of investing in enterprise collaboration tools and strategies is simply to replace existing systems that organizations are...
Investing in Enterprise Collaboration Can Help You Attract and Retain Top Talent
According to a Forbes article by Jeanne Meister: "The average worker today stays at each of his or her jobs for 4.4 years, according to...
Three Reasons Why Your Department Shouldn’t Wait for Corporate to Invest in Collaboration
In an ideal scenario the corporate management team at your organization will make the necessary technology and strategy investments around collaboration and the future...
The Five-Step Maturity Model for Building a Collaborative Organization
In my book, The Collaborative Organization, I featured a maturity model that Chess Media Group created based on our client experience and research. ...
When is the Best Time to Get Started With Collaboration?
Getting started with your future of work and collaboration initiative is typically the biggest step that an organization has to make. It's that...
The Future Employee Must Posses the Skill and Will to Learn
Thomas Friedman recently wrote an article for the NYT titled, "Need a Job? Invent It" which addresses how our educational institutions are not teaching...
The Evolution of the Networked Enterprise: New McKinsey Research
McKinsey just released some more research on the use of social and collaborative technologies within the enterprise. Not surprisingly they found that adoption...
Mozilla Launches Open Badges; Creates an Educational and Skill Currency
Mozilla recently unveiled a project that they have been working on for over a year and a half called Open Badges. The concept...
How Does Your Company Want to Approach Uncertainty?
We really can't be certain of anything; not just in relation to our companies but in our personal lives as well. We talk...
Six Principle Keys to Employee Engagement at The Motley Fool
I've been a huge fan of what the folks at The Motley Fool are doing around employee engagement. In fact a few months...
ING Direct CEO Gives Employees “The Right to Bitch”
While I was speaking at the Newsgator conference in Amsterdam I learned of a very interesting story at ING Direct (Canada). For those...
The Future of Work
A lot of companies are interested in what the future of work looks like and what direction companies are going to be heading towards....
How Would You Work Without Email?
Sometimes when I speak with clients or companies interested in understanding the future of work and collaboration it helps to put things into an...
Improving Employee Adoption for Enterprise Collaboration
One of the most common challenges I see with organizations that deploy collaborative platforms and technologies is the employee adoption rate. In other...
Humans are Taking Jobs Away From Robots, Not Vice Versa
First let me set the stage. I'm a big fan of Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson who are the authors of Race Against the Machine,...
Why Did Yahoo! Ban Telecommuting for Employees?
If you haven't heard the recent news, Yahoo! decided to ban telecommuting and is now forcing all employees to physically come into the office...
How to Avoid Losing Your Collaboration “Steam”
Collaboration initiatives for virtually all companies take time and we're not talking about a few hours or days, we're talking about many months and...