Why your intranet must budget for change management
Change management is key to driving intranet adoption, and good levels of adoption are a prerequisite for intranet success.
Change management is key to driving intranet adoption, and good levels of adoption are a prerequisite for intranet success.
One of the early critical milestones on the path to implementing a new intranet is ensuring you have the support of your senior management and, ideally, your budget holders.
Have you got an up-to-date and documented intranet strategy? And by that we mean a proper intranet strategy that has been researched, well thought out and signed off by key stakeholders.
Listening to your intranet users is important, but you have to be able to put it all together in a structured business case so that you raise the money and give people what they need.
The digital workplace doesnt reach everyone. The most efficient way of working isnt always adopted. Companies are doing real-world work and prioritise their projects, deliverables, and customers over digital workflows.
Visual design is more than choosing colours and getting the ‘look n feel’ right. There are four crucual reaons why visual design is so important to intranet success and employee engagement.
‘Design’ is much more than just how your intranet looks, it’s about how it works. Prototypes help stakeholders and end users understand and critique layout and interaction, helping us create an intranet that meets expectations.
One of the first things you define when designing a new intranet is the navigation. This can be done long before any intranet ‘designs’ are created.
At the start of most intranet projects, we need to find out more about the business and the things people want to fix and the challenges they face. But also, we need to get ‘buy-in’ from stakeholders across the business. We start with a discovery workshop with those stakeholders.
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.