How to generate business support for intranet innovation
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards, Intranets
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 Intranet Innovation Awards roadshow session, and came away asking: why shouldn’t we be winning awards too?
They have a great team, good resources (they’re a bank after all), a strong technology platform, and a core intranet that now works. The last thing the intranet team wants is to settle into “business as usual” before the full value of the intranet is realised.
So I was invited to give a 1.5 hour presentation on this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners. Business stakeholders and intranet owners were invited from across the organisation. Despite being only a few days before Christmas, we ended up with two dozen in the room.
The aim of the session was to show what intranets can do at their best, and to generate excitement for further in-house intranet improvements. I think we achieved that. They are also structuring their immediate planning around innovation, and the concrete objective of winning a 2010 award.
I think they can do it. There is still 3 months until the 2010 awards open for entries in March, and this fits perfectly with their “100 day sprint” planning.
Maybe you should be doing the same too, and giving the bank a run for their money!
James Robertson is the Managing Director of 