In our latest Intranets and Employee Experience Platforms report we evaluated leading digital products against eight scenarios. The third of these real-world business scenarios is ‘community and engagement’. ...
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Sharing highlights from one of our assessment scenarios - along with the scores for 20 intranet products....
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The first edition of our independent intranets report is out now and is packed full of reviews to help you explore the intranet market....
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We’ve updated our in-depth SharePoint intranets in-a-box report and V5.4 is available to purchase....
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Live blogging from Step Two's Intranet Conference 15-16th May. Conference agendaIntroduction - James Robertson The conference theme is "Intranets Unite", both in the sense of Intranets uniting people in our organizations, and as an event for intranet managers to come together and share. A lively audience of about 160 have come togetherJames argued that on the theme of uniting mobile intranets, we don't want 20 different apps...
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Intranets have always straddled multiple functions, but with the growth of the digital workplace, balancing what is in and out of scope for an intranet is getting trickier. Often related initiatives such as SharePoint, Yammer, mobile access or BYOD risk confusing employees, but are not necessarily within the remit of the intranet manager to set their strategy. Here we present five guiding principles for that balancing act: 1. Don't Plan Your...
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Many people are boldly doing 2012 predictions, which is nice guesswork if you can get it. I’m going to stick to more certain ground and talk about the 10 things that stood out for me in 2011.1) Intranets remained stubbornly not dead. There seemed to be a rash of articles by people writing headlines “The Intranet is Dead” and then saying why it wasn’t. Unfortunately...
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There’s an interesting article on how Accenture used gamification to drive intranet adoption. But there’s a risk that game theory (aka gamification) on intranets can reduce creativity and co-operation because it relies on shallow motivators.There have been a number of other good posts on intranet and gamification such as:Alex Manchester: Enhancing the Intranet with Game Theory and Gaming Mechanics Scott Hitchins on Interact: The Power of...
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