IBF at Interaction 2012
IBF and its associates will be out in force at the UK’s largest intranet conference, Interaction 2012, which takes place in London on 3 October. Among the speakers at this year’s event are Helen Day, Managing Director of the Digital Workplace Group (DWG’s parent business), IBF lead benchmarker Sam Marshall and Martin White, author of…
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10 intranets that have defined the industry – from 10 years of IBF
On 13 June IBF celebrated its 10th anniversary in a live joint meeting of its 100 plus members between London and New York. The Digital Workplace Group’s CEO and Founder Paul Miller chooses the 10 intranets that, in his belief, have defined the intranet industry in the past 10 years. Kellogg’s – Branding that delivers In…
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GigaOm Interview Paul Miller
Watch the GigaOm interview with DWG’s CEO and founder, Paul Miller, talking about the symbiotic relationship between the physical and digital work spaces.
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Major organisations at IBF Paris meeting call for accelerating change for intranets
IBF recently brought together a gathering of member and guest organisations in Paris to discuss intranet and digital workplace trends and challenges. Over a lovely lunch at Le Laurent on the Champs-Élysées, the group shared rich, practitioner conversations on a range of intranet themes, from user experience to the ongoing relevance on the intranet in…
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ConocoPhillips’ intranet culture: ask questions, don’t hoard answers
Its management sets the tone for its internal community, which is full of people unafraid to say they need help or can offer it. By Matt Wilson www.ragan.com Energy giant ConocoPhillips’ intranet, eStream, doesn’t run on the newest platform. It doesn’t even run on the second-newest. It uses the nearly decade-old SharePoint 2003. “It’s not…
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An inspiring time with IBF at Intranatdagarna 2011
Ability Partners held another of their regular ‘Intranet days’ conferences in Stockholm. Apart from myself and Paul Miller – CEO and Founder of the Digital Workplace Group, there were some excellent speakers including Martin Risgaard, Oscar Berg and Gabriele Ollson and Menno van Doorn. After a SharePoint workshop, the two day conference covered subjects including…
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Intranet thought leader Andy Jankowski to deliver keynote at the Ragan Communications 2011 Intranet Summit in Chicago
21st October 2011, New York The Digital Workplace Group is delighted to announce that IBF Global Director Andy Jankowski will be delivering the opening keynote speech at the forthcoming Ragan Communications 2011 Intranet Summit in Chicago on 15th November. Jankowski’s presentation is entitled “The Digital Workplace Maturity Model: Moving from publishing to people.” The 2011 Intranet Summit,…
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Collaboration at Interaction 2011
Interact held ‘Interaction 2011’, their first intranet conference in London, UK, on 13 October. A great theme, set of speakers, enthusiastic audience combined to make it a day to remember by everyone involved. Over 130 delegates arrived for a feast of intranet offerings with James Robertson starting the keynote presentations with ‘Making an intranet essential’. …
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Managing Risk in the Digital Workplace
DWG’s latest research paper investigates the challenges facing intranet and digital workplace managers and organisations as digital working reaches critical mass. As intranets expand into the digital workplace, organisations are presented with new opportunities to communicate, collaborate and share information more quickly and freely both internally and with business partners. With these opportunities the challenge…
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IBF to host intranets breakfast in Cleveland
17 August 2011 New York, NY The Digital Workplace Group (DWG) is delighted to announce another of its highly successful “Wake Up and Smell the Intranets” breakfasts. This time hosted in Cleveland, the session provides an excellent opportunity for both current and potential DWG members to network, share perspectives and view two world-class intranets from…
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Cummins Inc., becomes the latest global organisation to join the Digital Workplace Group
16th August 2011, New York The Digital Workplace Group today announced Cummins Inc., as the latest global organization to join the exclusive community of DWG members. Cummins Inc., designs and manufactures engines and related systems, serving customers in nearly 200 countries. Paul Miller, CEO and Founder of DWG, commented “It’s a great pleasure to welcome a prestigious and…
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Building the Social Media Ecology – Part One
Five years since MIT’s Andrew McAfee coined the term, “Enterprise 2.0,”[1] for enterprise social media, skeptical senior executives are still struggling with how to realize social media’s vaunted benefits – innovation, knowledge-discovery, strengthened ties, and efficient online problem-solving, to name a few. At a presentation last week I asked the 50 participants to name obstacles…
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