Gold winner: ChTPZ (Russia)
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards
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 this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners.
ChTPZ Group is one of Russia’s leading industrial groups. The ‘Mobile Employee’ service is a simple but clever solution for keeping in touch with colleagues out in the field, who generally only have a standard mobile phone capable of calls and SMS.
With Mobile Employee, ChTPZ employees can submit their phone number to the staff directory. When a colleague wishes to contact them, they can head to the directory and click on the ‘Mobile Employee’ icon. This opens the Mobile Employee portal, and presents a field within which to type your message. Once sent, the message is delivered to the employee in SMS format.
It’s the service’s simplicity, together with its directory integration and ease of use, that appealed to the judges, and this is one of a number of similarly small but clever applications, including intranet ‘gifts’, a manager’s portal and more, designed and implemented from scratch by the ChTPZ intranet team.
(For full details of this Award-winning entry, obtain a copy of the 198-page Intranet Innovations 2009 report.
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