Tag: future of work

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman sit down with AWS’s GM of Industrial IoT and Edge Services, Michael MacKenzie, to talk all things automation and robotics, which is the A and R in re:MARS.
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the partnership between Intel and Dell and the American Association of Community Colleges to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) education in community and technical colleges in all 50 states by 2023 as part of Intel’s AI for Workforce Program.
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the newest application and solution announcements to come out of SAP’s TechEd Conference this week offering insight into how these tools can drive continuous learning initiatives and close the skills gap.
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman breaks down Tableau’s recent pledge to train 10 million people in order to close the data literacy gap, diving into the specifics of the pledge and offering insight on what this means for the future of work.
The metaverse is clearly in the news of late, and it appears to be on pace to be one of the biggest trends of 2022. Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement out of Microsoft’s Ignite event of the launch of its Mesh for Teams, a new offering intended to blend the digital and physical worlds, expected to roll out to users in 2022, and offering insight on what this means for the future of the metaverse in the workplace.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast - Women in Tech Interview Series Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Hello Career Guru’s Suzanna Keith and Sonal Rinello for a conversation on the future of work, women in the workplace and what kind of support they need to fight their way back after slogging through the last 18 months of pandemic times.
In this episode of Future of Work Talk and the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Shameem Smillie, the Director of Global Contact Center Solutions at Mitel for a conversation around connection, personalized customer experiences, and what ‘meaningful connections’ mean in a digital world, what the future of work looks like in post-pandemic times — and some practical ways businesses can think about strengthening their communication skills.
As remote collaboration continues to become the new bedrock of digital collaboration, voice-processing technologies are increasingly embedding themselves in the very platforms that organizations depend on for those types of communications. Improving the accuracy of voice-processing technologies by applying lessons learned from adapting to atypical speech will have significant impact across the board. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard takes a look at what voice assistants trained to understand atypical speech mean to the future of work as well as a dive into some of the projects currently underway.
Microsoft finally optimizing its unified Office mobile app for Apple’s iPad devices isn’t just great news for iPad users – it’s also a clear signal from Microsoft that it intends to be more proactive about servicing segments of its ecosystem that may have, until now, been under-prioritized. Microsoft has also designed for specific segments of the Office User ecosystem, which is impressive. This ability to understand the user preferences and nuances involved in these unique segments of its ecosystem makes it clear that Microsoft has spent time and resources learning what these users’ needs are and that it has developed solutions so as to best to meet them.
Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman take a look at Microsoft Viva, a newly launched Employee Experience Platform. Microsoft Viva is comprised of four basic components (today anyway), designed to facilitate connection, learning, topics/discovery, and insights, all designed to heighten and improve the employee experience, facilitate improved knowledge sharing, communication within the organization, teams, and groups, deliver insights designed to help employees and leaders, and provide learning management solutions that help facilitate creating a culture of continuous learning.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Women in Tech Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Shelly Kramer joins forces with Oracle’s Lisa Joy Rosner to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on women in the workforce. Their conversation explores the different ways that leaders can help ease the strain that employees are feeling and what all of this means for the future of work.

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