Digital workplace blog
Intranet governance teams and responsibilities
Overlapping responsibilities and unclear accountabilities make for hazy intranet governance and a woolly intranet. To realise the full value of your intranet, simple, explicit governance is needed.
Redesigning SharePoint for visual impact and usability
Its common to hear that SharePoint is difficult to use; there are now a plethora of companies selling out of the box SharePoint solutions to improve the experience. But we know that SharePoint can be designed to be easy to use and even beautiful. Heres what we offered one big client.
How beautiful is your intranet?
Corporate websites are meticulously designed to evoke trust, retain attention, and to be easy to use. Intranets often lag behind such attention to detail.
Content strategy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rihanna
Your intranet can become bloated; up-to-date material can be difficult to find, and the search engine becomes clogged with results from last year. You need to cut the rot from your content.
Using email newsletters to improve internal communications and drive traffic to your intranet
Email is not dead the numbers dont lie. Exploring how best to deliver internal email newsletters, when everyone is complaining about email overload.
SharePoint user adoption tactics
A dozen tactics to support your intranet adoption strategy, for before and after relaunch.
An intranet governance checklist
Why do intranets fail? Before going through an intranet governance checklist it’s useful first to think about the context and purposes of intranet governance. In our work we are often called in to rescue failing intranets. The following is a list of problems that we typically come across. They are all signs
Intranet hierarchy of needs
There are many ways to build a new intranet, or revamp an ageing one. Whatever your approach, your objective must be to create a useful, useable intranet that adds value to your business.
Reputation and trustworthy communications
The pharma industry has a reputation problem. HCPs and patients can be brand loyal to the drugs they rely on and believe in, but suspicious of
the companies behind the drugs.
How Microsoft is integrating Yammer into SharePoint 2013
Discover how Microsoft integrated Yammer with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 to create a more social, collaborative and connected intranet experience.
The Microsoft digital workplace new tools to get to grips with
Explore Microsoft’s digital workplace tools and discover how new technologies can enhance collaboration, communication and the employee experience.
Align your internal and external communications
Marketing communications may seem wholly separate to internal communications, and in turn the marketing team may feel worlds apart from the internal communications team. Yet marketing campaigns are stronger and more authentic when employees are involved. Dont be that company where the staff know less about your news than industry experts.