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Remote and hybrid working has gained traction. But you still need to provide a great onboarding experience to new joiners – if anything, in today's work environment this is even more critical. How do you do this?  This post outlines how you can ensure hybrid or remote work success with 8 tips for onboarding.   

What is the difference between Information Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM)? The terms are often (mistakenly) used interchangeably.

The modern office has changed significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, but we’re set to oversee further major changes to the way we work. From Gen Z entering the workforce to automation and AI, here are 10 crucial digital workplace priorities to think about for 2023:

A corporate knowledge base centralizes critical information, making it easily accessible to employees, which enhances productivity, fosters innovation, and improves decision-making. This comprehensive guide will explore the importance of a corporate knowledge base, key features, best practices for implementation, and the benefits it offers.

Remote work has become increasingly popular in the UK and elsewhere, with nearly 40% of those who earn £40,000 or more still working in a remote capacity as of 2022.   

Since 2020, remote and hybrid working has revolutionised the modern workplace. While remote working was initially implemented as a temporary solution to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, many workplaces have now shifted exclusively to remote working, or found ways to integrate a hybrid element to the employee experience.

Digital working is great for several reasons, most notably that employees enjoy greater flexibility over their working hours, while employers aren’t obliged to provide constant oversight during office time. One downside of digital working though, is that it can be difficult to track employee workload and productivity without an office presence.

In business, ideation means generating and developing new ideas to solve a problem or improve a product, process or service. Ideation is typically aimed at solving a problem or providing a more efficient means of doing or accomplishing something.

• Successful ideation
• Golden rules of ideation
• What is ideation software?
• Why use ideation software?
• How to select the right ideation software for your company
• Features to look for in ideation software
• Questions to ask an ideation software provider

I and many others think that Microsoft Loop is the future of document creation and collaboration. Here's why:

Here's a scenario we can all imagine: you're in MS Teams, and you have a team chat going on. You want to work in a table so you can capture area sales data (for example). How do you do this?

Currently you can create an Excel worksheet and save that in the Files tab of Teams. But that means leaving the chat or swapping to Excel which breaks up the flow of the chat. Loop components allow you to insert a table (and bulleted list, checklist, numbered list, paragraph and task list) directly into the chat. The great thing about this is that everyone in the chat can edit the table without having to share it separately.

You know the importance of keeping your clients happy but, let’s face it, keeping up with questions, requests and inquiries – as well as keeping track of all that information – is a daily and costly challenge. 

And then there's the issue of security; after all, many of those documents and interactions between you and your clients contain sensitive financial and business information and neither party could afford to have that information go astray.