An intranet can be thought of as having five purposes or roles, the first four of which are generally well accepted: making content available delivering communications promoting collaboration supporting task activities The fifth purpose, is to reflect, influence and help shape culture. Organisational culture is often expressed as ‘it’s the way we do things around [...]
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You’re a powerful and highly respected professional services firm, with offices high up in a tower building overlooking a spectacular view. You’re a major consumer goods company that delivers products designed for the fashion elite, constantly at the leading edge. You’re a global technology company, that attracts the brightest minds to deliver the most innovative [...]
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Also tagged: branding, culture, Intranets, reputation
It’s been a busy couple of days for enterprise social tools. IBF24, just finished, had a big focus on the social tools that are being rolled out in organisations of every size, from Yammer to team sites, from status updates to rich staff directories. There was also palpable enthusiasm for social tools amongst participants at [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0
Also tagged: culture, social media, social tools
Employee engagement continues to be a hot topic, and little wonder. Conservative estimates suggest that small increments in employee engagement levels bring very tangible benefits through increased productivity and reduced turnover. A 5 per cent increase in engagement is estimated to bring increased revenue and reduced costs of about 10 per cent of an employee’s [...]
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Also tagged: culture, employee engagement, Intranets
For the last seven years we’ve been writing about intranets, and our focus has relentlessly been on how to make the intranet more valuable for staff and the organisation. Our over-arching statement has always been this: Staff will use the intranet if it’s useful. The challenge is to uncover and understand staff needs, and to [...]
Categorised under: Intranets, James' articles
Also tagged: brand, cultural change, culture, Intranets