Most analytics packages will generate a host of beautiful-looking charts, but how many of those actually change how your digital workplace is managed?...
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There's no such thing as a 'standard' intranet strategy, but yours should cover certain matters and answer some specific questions. Your intranet strategy must have defined goals that support the organisation's existing goals. ...
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Without a strong governance foundation, a digital workplace can become a hard to navigate maze....
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What are your personal priorities for the intranet and how do they influence its development? Your daily activities demonstrate your approach more than any strategy document. ...
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Twelve clean months stretch out before you and, although each will bring unexpected challenges and changes, having a plan for monthly enhancements can keep you on track....
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Most intranet platforms are like buying gym equipment. They come with very detailed instructions about how to bolt the parts together. They may even come with some slick videos and diagrams of sample exercises. But what they don’t do is tell you what programme you should follow. If you want to run a marathon, the way you use that equipment would be entirely different to...
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Like with any intranet, how you manage and use SharePoint will influence how well your organisation communications and collaborates. There are pitfalls with SharePoint, and there are ways of overcoming the common challenges. ...
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There's lots of excitement about flexibility in the physical workspace, but this is largely underpinned by flexible digital working: we're not anchored to a specific desk by a filing cabinet or in-tray anymore. All the same, the two worlds do intersect, and there doesn't seem to be enough cross-border thinking at the moment to give employees a joined-up experience between their physical and digital workplace...
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Introduction Jane McConnell kindly shared with me a copy of her latest Digital Workplace Trends report, based on a survey of 362 organisations covering their current activities and future plans. This is the seventh time she has run her survey (it began as the Global Intranet Trends report in 2006), so can genuinely claim to be an insight into longer-term trends.The way the report defines the...
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[caption id="attachment_1251" align="alignright" width="200"] image: Kheel Center, Cornell U.[/caption][alert]This post has been superseded by an illustrated version of the Digital Workplace Manifesto[/alert]The agenda for the digital workplace is becoming established from an architectural perspective, but what are the things we need to preserve from the employeeworker point of view? Inspired (like so many) by the market-driven Cluetrain manifesto, here is our take on a manifesto...
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