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Social Networks Don't Need Management's Blessing
It's widely believed that one of the best ways to encourage Enterprise Social Network (ESN) adoption is for leaders to set an example. However, research we’ve conducted over the last four years places much more emphasis on personal interest. When working with clients to develop digital workplace strategies we often
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How to Get Employees to Fill In Their Directory Profile
“Can my manager make me fill in my profile?” The Guardian featured this question in a workplace column called "Dear Jeremy." The profile was for the person's intranet (which sounded a lot like a SharePoint My Site) and the reader worried that strangers would see their personal information.
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Digital Workplace Trends From the IntraTeam Event #IEC16
When it comes to intranet conferences, Scandinavia punches above its weight. The region hosts roughly half a dozen events a year, all drawing crowds of 150 or more. IntraTeam Event, held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the longest-running.
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Comparing 6 SharePoint Intranets-in-a-Box
Creating an intranet on SharePoint can be a slow process – six months is good going; 18 months is not uncommon. Shortcutting this process with a readymade solution sounds appealing and a growing list of vendors offer this option.
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What Digital Workplace Transformation Looks Like at VELUX
When the digital workplace team at the VELUX Group were told “you’ll need top manager support” for their launch, they didn’t take it lightly: they engaged their 100 most senior leaders one by one, with briefings, Skype calls and access to the new intranet two weeks ahead of anyone else.
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2015 Contributors of the Year: Sam Marshall
Before Sam Marshall started writing as a contributor for CMSWire, he wrote for CMSWire. Let me explain. Sam's thoughtful comments on the site complemented and furthered the thoughts shared by our contributors. It only seemed natural to take the next step and ask him to write posts of his own.
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6 Factors for Organizational Innovation
Organizational innovation isn’t just about having original ideas — it isn’t even always about originality — it is about the ability to mobilize those ideas into a product or service. Innovation: The Organizational Amplification of an Idea The knowledge spiral or SECI model by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi is
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Hubs, Hives and Hangouts: Adapting Your Digital Workplace
Physical workplace design has ditched the uniform cubicles and desks to optimize office space for different kinds of interaction (sometimes called Activity Based Working or ABW), be it quiet working, team meetings, social or creative interactions. Some of this same thinking can be applied to digital workplaces. Just as
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A Conference For the Community, By the Community #IntranetNow
Intranet Now is a UK community-driven event billed as an "un/conference for comms and intranet people." The morning involved rapid back-to-back talks, some as short as 5 minutes (I’ve never seen an agenda that had timings such as 11:29 to 11:37am!).
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IT vs. Communications: Who Drives Your Intranet?
Who sets the agenda for your intranet? This is one of the questions we were interested to find out when my company worked with Warwick Business School last year to look into intranet governance. As you might expect, the majority answer was "Internal Communications" (see the pie chart below).
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Intranets Aren't Essential (But They Still Have a Role to Play)
Should intranets be essential to a business? Logic says yes. Intranets should aim to support the most important elements of a business, and thereby become essential. But often found behind such an objective is a desire to drive traffic to an intranet in the belief that high usage constitutes success.
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Why Collaboration Works for Others, But Not for You
Imagine I told you about a wonderful family vacation I’d just enjoyed. Duly inspired, you book the same hotel, same excursions and visit the same restaurants. But your family finds it a drag. Why? Because your family is different — maybe they don’t like museums, or wanted more nightlife.
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We Need Answers: Bring Cards to Enterprise Search
Imagine you wanted to know what time the next train to London was from Oxford. When you search in Google the first hit isn’t a link to a site but a card like the one below.
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Intranet Value Lies in Employee Satisfaction
Saying that intranet value is about how employees feel may seem counterintuitive -- surely it is about sales, profits and customers.
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