Step Two Designs

As new technologies are gaining a presence within organisations, we’re seeing some strategic conversations shifting from the “intranet” to the “digital workplace”. This encompasses traditional content publishing, news, social, collaboration, mobile (and beyond). This came into focus for us on a recent consulting project for a high-profile media company. With big changes needed, it was [...]

Tags: Collaboration, digital workplace, digital workplace teams, intranet teams, Intranets, leadership, roles

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Over the last few years, social and collaboration become a big topic, with active interst in many organisations, as well as in the wider community. Amongst some writers and thinkers, this has been painted as a war between old and new thinking. The two sides are drawn like this: “Traditional” or “old” intranets content heavy [...]

Tags: Collaboration, intranet, social business, social intranet, social tools

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Something a bit different this week. While none of the scenarios outlined above are earth-shaking, they are extremely common, and the question needs to be asked: why can’t we do this things today? It also highlights that while we typically think of field and frontline needs when taking about enterprise mobility, it’s just as relevant [...]

Tags: byod, digital workplace, iPad, iPhone, mobile, phone, strategy, tablet

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The digital workplace is an emerging term that describes how the working environments in organisations of every type are being transformed by new technologies and behaviours. While the digital workplace offers a holistic view of the enterprise space, the challenge is to understand it in concrete terms. As mentioned earlier this week, we’re now talking [...]

Tags: digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, future, Intranets

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Last week in London I had the pleasure of presenting at the Interactions 2011 conference. This was my opening keynote, outlining a vision for the role that intranets should play within organisations. Key points: There are three broad “life stages” for intranets (see Introducing the essential intranet, noting that “new intranets” are now called ad-hoc). [...]

Tags: business case, essential, Intranets, roi, strategy

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