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How Nationwide’s intranet went from caterpillar to butterfly
Within the space of three years, Nationwide climbed from near the bottom of Digital Workplace Group’s benchmarking tables to almost top. In this episode, Paul Miller talks to Jon Simons, Digital Channels Senior Manager at Nationwide, about how the team achieved such a radical result, and how DWG Benchmarking and Membership helped the organization go from caterpillar, through cocoon, to butterfly.
Who is Paul Miller?
Paul Miller is CEO and Founder of the Digital Workplace Group. His latest book, ‘The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future’ (co-authored with Elizabeth Marsh), was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2016 Award. Paul’s previous book, ‘The Digital Workplace: How technology is liberating work’, helped to popularize and explain the term “digital workplace”. Paul has given many inspirational talks on the digital future of work, for audiences at Microsoft, IKEA, Google, Accenture, Harvard Business Review, Cisco, European Commission, Adobe and Oxford University.
He was ranked one of the world’s Top 50 Social Employee Advocacy Leaders in 2015 and was a Judge and Mentor for the Duke of York’s Inspiring Digital Enterprise Awards. Paul hosted the pioneering internet radio show Digital Workplace Live for five years and is Executive Producer of the 24-hour global digital experience Digital Workplace 24.
Prior to founding DWG, Paul was Founder and CEO of communications company The Empowerment Group; Publisher and Editor of social and digital innovation magazine “Wave”; and, in pre-internet days, co-founder of the Ideas Café salon. He now lives in the Cotswolds in the UK.
Follow Paul on Twitter @paulmillersays
Other episodes
Human + Machine – with Accenture’s visionary leader Paul Daugherty
In reaction to the dystopian view of AI and unwilling to accept it, Paul Daugherty and H James Wilson set about writing Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Written as a guide to help people make informed decisions and plan for the future, Paul Daugherty talks to Paul Miller about some of the key themes from the book.
How Philips put power back into its intranet
Philips employs more than 70,000 employees in 100 countries. Before it launched its new intranet, Communication Channels Director, Dennis Agusi, relayed the organization’s global message through a myriad of local intranets.
But with Philips’ strategic shift into the healthcare sector, came razor-sharp focus for the new intranet, which boasts content governance, content lifecycle management and a hugely successful search functionality.
Fluid, agile, radical – that’s Dutch bank ING
ING has recently undergone a huge project to bring 500 intranets in 40 countries into one shared intranet. As well as that, ING has restructured the company to enable the organization to get the best out of technology. Paul Miller talks to Joris Kok, Product Owner of ‘One Intranet’, who is in charge of the ongoing development of the platform.
Joris tells us about the benefits of their agile approach; how to create the optimal team; and how the building itself has been renovated to reflect the new ways of working.
