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The Importance of Online Workplaces

Online workplaces are involved in virtually all information- or knowledge-based activities within an enterprise. By improving online workplaces, an enterprise can significantly increase the performance of these activities. However, the goals of an online workplace need to go beyond automation. When aligned with supporting culture and business practices, online workplaces can provide the basis for sustainable competitive advantage. The source of this advantage comes from the intellectual capital that can be captured and reused.

The efficiency of completing repeatable processes and transactions is the focus of workflow systems and transactional systems. In the interest of decreasing cycle time, both of these system types optimize how individuals and groups serve business processes: The process comes first and the worker is subservient to the process (cue Pink Floyd music). However, this “process first, user second” design does not work well for the many ad hoc activities that make up a typical workday, in which the user juggles multiple variables and gathers information as needed. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid call these two different modes “process” and “practice.”

Advantages based on practice are difficult to replicate because they consist of talent of the people involved and information with which those workers make decisions. This goes to the heart of the goal of an effective online workplace: Enable the enterprise to leverage assets that competitors do not have. These are the talent of its people and information only the enterprise possesses.

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02 Dec 09

Accenture Survey Identifies Companies’ Innovation Improvement Opportunities

Organizational innovation structure
Looking for the silver bullet
Advancing existing markets and products
Well-defined innovation strategy
Innovation-related challenges

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