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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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What's the Sweet Spot Between Intranets and ESNs?
A speaker at a recent intranet conference declared “Intranets will be dead within five years.” He waited for the horrified gasp, but none came.
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Open Up Your Digital Workplace
Who works for your organization? Employees probably come to mind first, but usually there are also contractors, contingent or seasonal workers, some consultants, agencies that you outsource to, partner organizations or even whole service departments like payroll that are outsourced.
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Stay Alert: The Future of the Activity Stream
How do you keep track of everything going on that might affect your work? It’s probably a combination of internal and external social media, email, word of mouth and a whole range of other notifications, an approach that can be both ineffective and overwhelming.
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What a Digital Workplace Is and What It Isn't
An effective digital workplace decouple work from physical locality and deliberately focuses on a more consumer-like employee experience.
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Exercise Your Intranet Muscles
Buying an intranet platform is like buying gym equipment. You get very detailed instructions. You may even get a few slick videos and diagrams of sample exercises. But what you won't get is advice what program you should follow.
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What to Do When Yammer Adoption Stalls
Plenty of companies have early success with Yammer. And then it stalls. Or they hit growing pains and the early enthusiasm wanes.
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