[caption id="attachment_4835" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Left to right: Sharon O'Dea (UK Parliament), Alex Jackson (Framestore), James Robertson (Step Two Designs), Adam Pope (Arup)"][/caption] We had a lovely informal awards ceremony in London yesterday for the recently announced Intranet Innovation Award winners for 2011. ...
Blog category: intranet innovation awards
October 12, 2011 by James Robertson
Award winners in London
October 11, 2011 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovation Awards roadshow (Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney)
As you'd be aware, the winners of the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards have just been announced. Each year, we run a free roadshow throughout Australia, where you will hear all about the winning entries, see screenshots and hear what set these entries apart from the rest. These afternoons will be ...
October 6, 2011 by James Robertson
The best intranet ideas from 2011
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October 6, 2011 by James Robertson
Congratulations to the 2011 winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards!
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September 28, 2011 by James Robertson
Meet the UK’s Intranet Innovation Award winners in London
The winners of this year's Intranet Innovation Awards will be announced in the coming fortnight, and as always, we have a remarkable collection of intranets to reveal. While I can't tell you who has won (it's still a secret!), I can reveal that there is more than one UK-based ...
May 18, 2011 by James Robertson
Introducing our practitioner judge for the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards
In recent years, we've included a practitioner judge on the judging panel for the Intranet Innovation Awards. This ensures we're "keeping it real", and surfacing the ideas that will have the greatest impact on intranet teams in the ...
May 5, 2011 by James Robertson
What we’d love to see entered into this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards
Each year, we wait with breathless anticipation to see what entries we'll get for the Intranet Innovation Awards. Organisations still have until May 31 to enter, so it's early days yet. To pass the time, we asked our judges and supporters what sorts of things they'd like to see. We ...
April 19, 2011 by James Robertson
2011 Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for entries!
Now in their fifth year, the global Intranet Innovation Awards uncover great ideas for the benefit of the whole intranet community. Winners have come from countries around the world, from both small and large organisations. This year's Awards are now open for entries, with submissions closing on ...
April 12, 2011 by James Robertson
Inspiration for your 2011 Intranet Innovation Award entry
As mentioned last week, the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards open for entries very shortly. So now is a great time to starting thinking about what you're going to submit, and to register your interest. To help you identify the best of your work to submit, here are four video ...
March 28, 2011 by James Robertson
Video interview with Deb Reilly from IMF
When I was in Washington DC late last year, I had a chance to do a video interview with Deb Reilly from IMF, on their Gold winning entry to the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. On the ...
Tags: imf, intranet innovation awards, Intranets
March 7, 2011 by James Robertson
Interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup
When I was in London late last year, I was pleased to have an opportunity to record a video interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup. Gold winners of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards, their skills ...
Tags: communities of practice, cop, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, Knowledge management
November 24, 2010 by James Robertson
Video interview with Bennett Jones, Platinum Intranet Innovation Award winner
KMWorld in Washington DC last week gave us a wonderful opportunity to meet up with many of our Intranet Innovation Award winners for 2010. Their work was also of keen interest to the rest ...
Tags: intranet innovation awards, Intranets, legal firms, precedents
November 19, 2010 by James Robertson
Video of Intranet Innovation Award ceremony at KMWorld 2010
I've had a great time at the KMWorld 2010 conference in Washington DC this week. The highlight was handing over trophies to many of the Intranet Innovation Award winners for the 2010. It was great ...
Tags: intranet innovation awards, Intranets, kmw10
November 12, 2010 by James Robertson
Award ceremony at next week’s KMWorld conference in Washington DC
I'm pleased to report that KMWorld 2010 will again the be the host for an Intranet Innovation Awards ceremony. In front of the assembled crowds, Martin White and I will be honoured to handout glass trophies to a number of the winners. This year, in addition to the ...
November 10, 2010 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovations 2010: key themes from this year’s awards
2010 is the fourth year of the Intranet Innovation Awards, the global competition run by Step Two Designs. The awards were created to help uncover the work and achievements of intranet teams worldwide, and every year they give unparallelled insight into the leading edge of the field. In 2010 there ...
November 8, 2010 by James Robertson
Brilliant intranet video from Rijkswaterstaat
The best thing about the Intranet Innovation Awards is its ability to uncover great stuff done in hidden corners of the intranet community. This video from Rijkswaterstaat (Dtuch government waterways authority) is a perfect example. Like ...
Tags: change management, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, videos
November 3, 2010 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovations 2010 annual report
In conjunction with the Intranet Innovation Awards, the Intranet Innovations 2010 annual report has just been released. A must-have for all intranet teams, it shares details on the 2010 winners of the global Intranet Innovation Awards, and gives insight into the leading edge of intranets. Use ...
November 3, 2010 by James Robertson
Congratulations to this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners!
The winners of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards were announced today. With over 50 entries this year, there was fierce competition for the coveted glass trophies. The awards are unique in that they focus on specific enhancements that add value, rather than intranets as a whole. This makes for a ...
April 16, 2010 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just one week left to enter!
It's Friday 16 April, and this year that means just one more week left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close next week - Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on ...
April 9, 2010 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just two weeks left to enter
It's Friday 9 April, and this year that means just two weeks left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close on Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on past winners, judging ...
March 24, 2010 by James Robertson
Just one month left to submit your Intranet Innovation Award
Intranet Innovation Award judge and publisher of the annual Global Intranet Trends report, Jane McConnell, has quite rightly pointed out that there's just one month left to submit your entry for the 2010 Awards. Why should you enter? Here are Jane's thoughts: The Intranet Innovation Awards are in ...
March 22, 2010 by James Robertson
Sharing, learning and gaining recognition with an Intranet Innovation Award
A fundamental aspect of the Intranet Innovation Awards is sharing and demonstrating what's out there in terms of state-of-the-art intranet design, applications, services and features. We see uncovering the best of the best as critically important to the global intranet ...
March 1, 2010 by James Robertson
William Amurgis joins the Intranet Innovation Awards judging panel
For 2010 we're very pleased to have a new judge on the panel for the Intranet Innovation Awards. William Amurgis, Manger - Internal communications, at American Electric Power (AEP), is our first practitioner judge, and represents the USA on the panel. He'll ...
March 1, 2010 by James Robertson
2010 Intranet Innovation Awards now open for entries
We're pleased to announce that the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for entries. Now in their fourth year, the Intranet Innovation Awards are the premier awards for intranet teams. Drawing on the best of intranet work around the world, ...
February 18, 2010 by James Robertson
Video interview with Sabre on their online social tools
Sabre Holdings is one of the largest travel services businesses in the world, quietly connecting travel agents with airlines, as well as running major sites such as Travelocity. Sabre Town, their enterprise social space, provides a ...
Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, innovation, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, sabre, social tools
February 16, 2010 by James Robertson
What do you expect in the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards?
Here at Step Two Designs we're gearing up for the launch of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards, with submissions opening in March (just a couple of weeks!). It doesn't seem too long ago that we unveiled the 2009 winners and many genuinely spectacular intranet innovations, from CRS Australia's super-smart ...
February 16, 2010 by James Robertson
Video interview with NYK on wiki-based intranet news
NYK is one of the world's largest shipping and transport firms, with 770 major ships sailing the oceans. In an incredibly competitive market, it is vital to quickly respond to industry changes and competitor moves. To facilitate ...
Tags: Enterprise 2.0, innovation, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, news, wikis
January 19, 2010 by James Robertson
Video interview with Prophet on streamlining 360 degree feedback
We often talk about using the intranet to save time, and to streamline common business tasks. This is all about taking a cumbersome existing process, and replacing it with an online version that works spectacularly ...
January 15, 2010 by James Robertson
Video interview with AEP on award-winning ideas system
When I was in San Jose for the KMWorld conference, I organised an awards ceremony for the US winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards. This also allowed me to do video interviews with a number of ...
Tags: ideas system, innovation, intranet innovation awards, Intranets
January 6, 2010 by James Robertson
How to generate business support for intranet innovation
Just before Christmas I gave an in-house presentation at a major Australian bank. In this organisation, the intranet team has recently delivered the start of a major intranet upgrade, and are now working on building support for their next steps. This came about because the intranet manager attended our Sydney ...
December 16, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: ChTPZ (Russia)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="ChTPZ's 'Mobile Employee' service is an easy-to-use, custom-designed SMS system that's housed on the intranet and tightly integrated with the organisation's corporate directory."] Post 10 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into ...
December 14, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: COWI (Denmark)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="COWI's project sites have enabled faster and more effective working across teams and departments, while maintaining compliance with the organisation's strict methodology."] Post 9 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
December 10, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: American Electric Power (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="599" caption="AEP's 'Now Ideas' helped the company identify $8 million in savings in five months."] Post 8 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's Intranet Innovation Award winners. American Electric Power’s ...
December 7, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: NYK Group (UK)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="599" caption="NYK's wiki News Room provided a cost-effective, global and user-friendly solution to sharing and distributing Group news. Screenshot courtesy of NYK."] Post 7 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
Tags: intranet innovation awards, Intranets, wikis
December 1, 2009 by James Robertson
Slidecast of the 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners
Last week we held an awards ceremony at the KMWorld conference in San Jose. In addition, I gave a 50 minute presentation that shared plenty of detail on a number of the winners. The ...
November 24, 2009 by James Robertson
Intranet Innovations 2009: insights into this year’s winners
The 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners were unveiled in Sydney on 5 November 2009. There's a wealth of great screenshots, information, tips and advice in the 2009 Awards report, which you can find on the Step Two Designs website. This article summarises the winners and hits on some of ...
November 24, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: SunGard (NZ/USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Sungard's Skills Matrix dispenses with a wall-sized spreadsheet and allows managers and other staff to find the right employee for a task. Image provided courtesy of Sungard"] Post 6 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving ...
November 19, 2009 by James Robertson
A gathering of award winners in San Jose
This morning we held an awards ceremony at KMWorld in San Jose for some of the US-based winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards. In front of the assembled masses, I was delighted to hand over the lovely glass trophies in ...
November 18, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: Prophet (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Prophet's in-house designed online performance evaluations system reduced the appraisal process timeframe from two months to one week. Screenshot courtesy of Prophet."] Post 5 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
November 12, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: Sabre (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Sabre Town is social networking for the enterprise, an in-house developed, Facebook-style platform that's led to quantifiable savings for the company. Screenshot courtesy of Sabre."] Post 4 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight ...
Tags: Enterprise 2.0, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, social networking, web 2.0
November 10, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: IBM (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="The w3 Toolbar is an active, multi-functional browser tool enabling users to recommend, share and link to content, files and more. Screenshot courtesy of IBM."] Post 3 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight ...
November 9, 2009 by James Robertson
Gold winner: IDEO (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3877" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Rich people profiles, including projects and availability. Screenshot courtesy of IDEO."][/caption] Post 2 of 10 of a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year’s Intranet ...
Tags: Enterprise 2.0, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, web 2.0
November 6, 2009 by James Robertson
2009 platinum winner: CRS Australia (Australia)
Post 1 of 10. This is the first of a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's Intranet Innovation Award winners. Workflow inbox and moreCRS Australia (Australia) CRS Australia provides vocational rehabilitation services and assistance for people with ...
Tags: integration, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, sap
