Taking the initiative on agility
This report has highlighted the requirement for more flexible workspaces, the barriers to change, and some of the ways in which organisations are seeking to overcome them.
It is clear that the impact of the workspace on the organisation is increasing, and now directly affects productivity, mobility, premises strategy, and the recruitment and retention of staff.
There is also a growing awareness that the workspace and the ways of working that it enables, directly affect both business outcomes and the environment.
What is less clear is how organisations simultaneously run the existing services and at the same time drive forward with change needed to support the digital transformation agenda.
The biggest challenges remain around the high up-front capital cost of investing in new solutions, and in the size and complexity of legacy application estates which remain essential to day to day operations. Initiatives like BYOD or SaaS may hold part of the solution, but the scope of change required remains much broader.
Building a modern, digitally-powered workspace capable of delivering modern and legacy applications is a potential way forward, and the rationale for doing so is clear – enabling employees to be productive and efficient is central to meeting business objectives.
For the majority of organisations, however, the capital cost, timescales, and expertise required are prohibitive, and most are seeking to move away from developing complex, bespoke solutions that require large in-house teams to support them.
In response to this, Capita IT and Networks has partnered with Microsoft and Citrix to create Workspace Agility, the world’s first user-centric, pay-as-you-use service specifically designed to address the user, technology, and commercial issues that slow digital transformation.
Technology has the power not only to improve user experience, but also to support digital transformation by making users and information truly mobile – an agile workspace which removes the cost barriers and bridges the gap between legacy and future, will allow organisations to reap the benefits of this potential.