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Andr\u00e9 Wei is one of Europe’s leading IT directors and the CTO of French lingerie manufacturer Chantelle. Earlier this year he\u00a0<\/em><\/span>described the challenges of Digital Workplace implementation within businesses at an IT conference I attended in Paris, one of the few before the dreaded lockdown and its consequences. The Coronavirus crisis, if anything else, has turned the digital workplace from nice-to-have into a must-have. Andr\u00e9’s tips will come in handy for all those businesses wanting to catch up with their digital workplace implementation.<\/em><\/p>\n

3 challenges for digital workplace implementation in businesses<\/h2>\n
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The challenges surrounding the implementation of a Digital Workplace are manifold. Chantelle’s Andr\u00e9 Wei described them to us at the IT for Business morning event on February 26th in Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Very often, we are still witnessing the difficulties encountered by users in sharing information, accessing their information systems, connecting to video conferences … “there are many pain-points related to the Digital Workplace” said Andr\u00e9 Wei, CTO of Chantelle in his introduction to the February 2020 IT for business morning conference. Many other CTOs, and IT users, will readily agree with him.<\/p>\n

Let’s face the music, we may well be in the twenty-first century, but all these challenges have been around for ages.<\/p>\n

Digital Workplace: different things to different people<\/h3>\n

The term ‘Digital Workplace’ means different things to different people. At a time where most businesses and users if not all, are moving en masse to online collaboration, there are still, however, quite a few open questions surrounding its implementation.<\/p>\n

“Before, the focus was on workstations, but now it’s the Digital Workplace,” added Andr\u00e9 Wei. Now I understand. Beyond the name change, the onus is on IT departments to foster new ways of working and the fact that everyone, or nearly everyone, in the business environment, is concerned.<\/p>\n

As a result, I noticed that the term sometimes was related to the IT infrastructure, at other times collaborative work, or even human and organisational issues. Bottom line, the Digital Workplace is at the heart of all business matters.<\/p>\n

Digital Workplace: When the rubber meets the ground field-proofed<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Thus, Andr\u00e9 Wei shared with us his experience upon his arrival at Chantelle in 2017, after a stint with a very agile consulting firm (Bain). Arriving at the time of the budgets, he witnessed a “high mass based on XL files”.<\/p>\n

It was for him a “return to the 90s”, and he worked to change that. “The user has applications on his phone and he is used to communicating, so how can we imagine a return to the corporate world? “he added, echoing a post we published earlier<\/a>.
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\nAccording to Chantelle’s CTO, there are 3 main challenges to implementing a Digital Workplace, improving business processes and instilling new ways of working.
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