November 28, 2012 by James Robertson
Step Two was at the SHARE conference in Melbourne this week, keeping in touch with what’s happening in the world of SharePoint. One of the key themes at the conference was how to deliver business value from SharePoint. What emerged was a strong focus on local adoption and use, targeting individual business needs with out-of-the-box [...]
Tags: adoption, Intranets, SharePoint
November 21, 2012 by James Robertson
At the Intranet Leadership Forum 2-day intensive in Sydney this week, we had several excellent sessions looking at enterprise social tools. This included case studies from a large bank and an energy company, as well as some vigorous group discussions. The discussions focused on: what’s the 30-sec elevator pitch for enterprise social tools? Despite the [...]
Tags: Collaboration, Intranets, social intranets, social media
September 24, 2012 by James Robertson
‘Social’ is now standard in the world of intranets, yet success with social intranets isn’t quite so common. There are many pitfalls to avoid and decisions to make, so it’s not simply a matter of enabling the commenting capability on a CMS (though that’s a good start), or starting a Yammer network. Here are six [...]
June 6, 2012 by James Robertson
Organisations across the globe are moving to a model of “activity-based working”, which takes the old idea of “hot-desking” and extends it. In a nutshell, it’s about eliminating traditional desks, cubicles and offices, and allowing staff to work however suits them. This promises to deliver a more productive and collaborative environment, but equally, it promises [...]
Tags: activity based working, digital workplace, mobile, workplaces
April 30, 2012 by James Robertson
Intranets have been going ‘social’ for some time now, first with lightweight aspects such as commenting on news articles, then with more embedded functionality such as blogs, wikis and document co-authoring. Now, a new breed of software products are gathering momentum in the shape of enterprise social network (ESN) tools. The likes of Yammer, Newsgator, [...]
Tags: Collaboration, evaluation, Intranets, selection, social business, social intranets, social tools