WestJet’s mobile app for employees – live tour August 5th
Webinar summary: In nine months WestJet’s intranet team went from a blank slate to launching a mobile app for employees. See the results and hear how they did it on the August 5th episode of Digital Workplace Live. Show topic: Live tour of WestJet’s mobile app for employees Date & time: Tues, August 5th |…
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37 screenshots of mobile intranets
We’ve launched a “mobile intranets” board on Pinterest with a variety of excellent screenshots. If you have a mobile intranet, submit a screenshot to the “mobile” track of My Beautiful Intranet 2014. My Beautiful Intranet 2014 goes mobile! [asideleft]Does your intranet feature a responsive design? Have you launched mobile apps for employees?Enter contest[/asideleft] Enter your…
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10 advantages of focusing enterprise mobility on frontline workers
Synopsis: Enterprise mobility is still at an early stage of maturity in most organizations, but interest is accelerating. There are ten core advantages of mobility, including portability and the ability to capture data in real time, which help unlock value for frontline workers. Download a free executive summary of DWG’s new research report – Success…
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With the digital workplace, focus is everything
Synopsis: Trying to overhaul your entire digital workplace simply won’t work. Instead, examine these four ways to narrow the scope of your digital workplace improvements. Download a free executive summary of DWG’s new research report – Success with enterprise mobile: how tools for frontline employees drive value. The dinosaurs of enterprise mobile Mobile is a…
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We finally found the world’s best intranet
Synopsis: As with the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, we always assumed the perfect intranet was a myth. But now we’ve found the world’s best intranet and have created annotated intranet screenshots explaining its many strengths. What does the best intranet in the world look like? And what makes it so great? From a thoughtfully…
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Research on enterprise mobile – value lies in tools for frontline workforce
Synopsis: While large companies have struggled for several years with advanced use of smartphones and tablets, digital workplace frontrunners are seeing huge value from enterprise mobile tools designed for frontline workers. This article pulls from DWG’s new research report – Success with enterprise mobile: how tools for frontline employees drive value. One of the genuinely…
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Enterprise mobility or mobile intranet?
Smartphones have made us focus on the devices themselves and it is natural to want to get the intranet onto them. But that perspective can be just as backwards as picking SharePoint and then figuring out what the intranet’s actual requirements are. I’d like to suggest that we should consider the idea of mobility being…
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DW24 guest wins international prize for urban mobile app
It was 4:00 AM UK time on Wednesday, May 15th when the creators of the Colab mobile app presented on Digital Workplace 24 (DW24). So there’s a slight chance you missed it if you live in certain time zones. If that’s the case here’s what you need to know: Mobile app helps residents improve city…
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Intranet usability and the death of the corporate app store
This might sound like a crazy thing to say in the heyday of the app marketplace, but we need to eliminate applications from the computer user’s experience. “Application” is a technical term that means “a piece of software” and traditionally belonged in the realm of IT departments. Its prevalence in mainstream culture indicates the triumph…
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Fortune 500 intranet managers bare their souls at DWG’s member meeting
Imagine you’re in a room full of intranet managers from some of the largest companies in the world and you’re going around the circle honestly discussing your toughest intranet challenges and recent successes. That’s how every DWG member meeting starts (what is an DWG member meeting?). What we call the “Stop Press” session allows all…
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The “hidden gem” that is DWG Research
Over in the UK the nation is getting into party mood as we start the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It’s also a year of celebration at DWG (formerly IBF) as it’s our 10th year anniversary and we’re excited about the New York and London member meetings coming up on 13-14 June. Something I’m very passionate…
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What’s in store for the world of intranets in 2012?
Paul Miller, CEO and Founder, Digital Workplace Group tells us what will happen in the intranet industry in 2012 As is my habit, each year I take a risk and look back over what I predicted for the past 12 months – and again I am pleasantly surprised that most of what I forecast has…
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