Creating a modern and well-managed digital workspace

Digital transformation investments have often majored on externally-facing systems such as customer engagement, but employees remain critical so must also be ‘digitally-enabled’. With this in mind, modern working practices, and the systems and services that are key to employee empowerment and productivity come into sharp focus.

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Customer and employee experience
5 November 2021

Time to join the dots[...]

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How to avoid that hook at the end of a fraudster’s line[...]

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