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Nov 2014
Intranet of Things
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The Internet of Things is the idea that we can digitally connect everything around us for sensing, tracking, and control. How might this concept apply to the office – an intranet of things?...
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Digital Workplace
05
Nov 2014
This year's Intranet Innovation Awards by Step Two unearthed a rich set of interesting practices in the intranet and digital workplace world. Notably, it was often the smaller organisations that set the standards. On November 3rd, the European-based winners and commended entries came together. Thanks to Richard Hare of Intranetters for hosting the event, and Steve Bynghall for organising the awards on behalf of Step Two.As...
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03
Nov 2014
Plenty of companies have early success with Yammer. And then it stalls. Or they hit growing pains and the early enthusiasm wanes.This scenario can happen to any enterprise social network (ESN), but it seems most pronounced in Yammer, partly because Yammer has such a large market share, but also because its freemium model means that the usual business-case test criteria (and the useful thinking that...
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25
Sep 2014
A record of September's SMiLE conference, live blogged through the day, encapsulating the case-studies that might inspire you to make more use of your enterprise social networks to support change, engagement, and communication....
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22
Sep 2014
Lundbeck is a company focused on creating a ‘high performance workplace’ and so offers virtual and classroom training to help individuals make better use of their everyday software, and save 15 minutes each day....
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15
Sep 2014
The intranet design and launch project may have been a vast investment of time and energy, but that’s now in the past. You need to help make the intranet an integral part of the people’s ways of working. Creating and delivering specific training topics will give people the confidence and competence to make best use of the intranet....
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01
Sep 2014
Hierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers, hoarding information like Gollum with a hangover. Presumably some of these managers were promoted from honest worker level, so does hierarchy bestow power, which immediately corrupts?Not so fast. There are definitely bad hierarchies,...
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28
May 2014
Guest writer Beth Gleba shares her IKEA intranet experiences and offers insights as to the purpose, use, and challenges of portals....
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23
Apr 2014
Many employees expect mobile access to internal systems, and there are clear benefits for field-workers of all kinds. As you design your mobile intranet strategy, consider these four questions. ...
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31
Mar 2014
A technology-driven strategy does not reliably lead to changes in people's behavior. Watch the two-minute video as Sam summarises the focus needed for a digital workplace strategy....
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