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 [...]

Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Future intranet, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, digital workplace, digital workplace teams, intranet teams, Intranets, leadership, roles

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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 [...]

Categorised under: Collaboration, Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Intranet Leadership Forum, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, Intranets, social intranets, social media

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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 [...]

Categorised under: Conferences & presentations, Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Future intranet, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, intranet, social business, social intranet, social tools

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This year was a real vintage for the Intranet Innovation Awards, the global competition run by Step Two Designs which is now in its sixth year. With over 80 entries (a leap of over 50 per cent on 2011) and many high quality entries, we were able to see that intranet teams are more professional [...]

Categorised under: intranet innovation awards, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, dashboards, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, mobile, social tools

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Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful, the common story was the challenge of explosive growth in team sites. Over a 2 hour session, we explored practical ways of bringing order to chaos. Some of these involved [...]

Categorised under: Intranets, SharePoint

Also tagged: Collaboration, governance, Intranets, SharePoint, team sites

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