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Employee personas and how to create them

By: James Robertson Posted: June 23, 2020

Creating employee personas is an effective way to understand the needs of your workforce, and to plan and design solutions accordingly.

What’s next for your intranet?

By: Amanda Broomhall Posted: February 24, 2015

The start of a new year is an ideal time to plan the next round of intranet improvements.

Intranets can mitigate business risks

By: James Robertson Posted: December 18, 2014

While intranets can’t prevent disasters, they can mitigate a wide range of business risks.

Information management strategy consists of projects, not policies

By: James Robertson Posted: December 18, 2014

Avoid the trap of seeing an information management strategy merely as a set of policies.

Finding staff for intranet research

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: July 29, 2014

There are both formal and informal ways of finding staff for user research

Five intranet enablers

By: Steve Byrne Posted: July 29, 2014

Is your organisation positioned to deliver and sustain a great intranet?

Use the intranet to improve customer service

By: James Robertson Posted: June 27, 2014

Customer service is make-or-break for many organisations, and intranets can help.

There is (largely) nothing to fear from enterprise social

By: James Robertson Posted: December 19, 2013

Experience from many organisations is that enterprise social tools generate few (if any) problems.

Designing intranet role pages

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 27, 2013

Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.

Five hats for global intranet teams

By: James Robertson Posted: October 23, 2013

Global intranet teams can (and must) play a mix of roles within large and complex organisations.