I love my dysfunctional intranet because of what it can achieve 4 the employee & org, not 4 what it looks like now
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Intranet love is… being passionate about the intranet, and staying passionate about it (even when others in the organisation don’t get it)
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Intranet love is… when you visit your homepage and your intranet knows what you need without you even asking
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I know someone whose intranet got old and flabby so they ran off with this slinky little Yammer thing.
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Idea management platforms: are they a good idea?
One of the longest standing features of what might be considered as a “Web 2.0” initiative are idea management or ideation programmes. These support the submission, discussion, rating, approval, analysis and ultimately the “putting into action” of ideas from a large group of people. Often introduced as part of an innovation programme, they can be…
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Time for a change of mindset with the UK government’s “Anywhere Working” program
November has seen a surge of activity in support of agile working practices from governments in the UK, Netherlands and the US. The momentum is clearly building. The technology to do it is available and the cost is not prohibitive. But mindsets still seem to be stuck in old ways of working.
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The “New Way of Working” week in the Netherlands
Yesterday morning many commuters on roundabouts, traffic lights and train stations in the Netherlands were surprised to see people in pink bathrobes, urging them to travel to work outside the rush hours. “Start your workday in your bathrobe, not in a traffic jam” was their motto. Yes, it is the “New Way of Working” (NWOW) Week…
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Never fall behind the Dalai Lama – technologically!
Yesterday I was fortunate to be part of a Digital Workplace panel at the 10th annual Strategic Communication Management Summit at a very plush hotel in London’s Mayfair with about 200 internal communications managers from a host of household name organizations. There was a talk from Fiona MacAllan, a very impressive woman from Nationwide Building…
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Why aren’t execs satisfied with social intranets?
Social intranets are the wave of the future, right? Then why aren’t more executives happy with them? According to a recent survey from Prescient Digital Media, only 28 percent of executives whose companies have social intranets say the functionality is “good” or “very good.” About 35 percent called it “poor” or “very poor.” The rest…
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Gamification and intranets: from passing fad to permanent feature?
In the past eighteen months “Gamification” is one of those circulating business buzz words which seem to have been everywhere. Loosely defined as the application of gaming techniques for uses which aren’t gaming, it has been applied to various scenarios and tools in the workplace, including the intranet. Although media interest in the term has…
Blog Collaboration Digital workplace A little strategy with your social? Yes, please!
On the next IBF Live, we invite Accenture and Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare) to compare notes on their enterprise social strategies. And Modus Associates also pays us a visit to share the highlights of their award-winning strategy project for the Cleveland Clinic intranet. Join us Tuesday, August 2nd on IBF Live for another month of…
Blog Collaboration DWG24 Strategy & governance Naming your intranet: How quirky is too quirky?
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but what about a blog? That was one of many intranet-related questions the hosts and guests of this month’s IBF Live broadcast from the Digital Workplace Group considered in Tuesday’s 90-minute program, which included intranet tours from architectural firm Woods Bagot, the provincial government of…
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