Articles tagged: innovation

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 ...

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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 ...

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Future scenario: driving the engine of change

This is the second future scenario exploring the future of intranets (and beyond) in organisations. The first covered Sarah's first days at work, and this looks at innovation, product management and streamlining business processes. It's an impressive list. When all laid ...

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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 ...

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Winners announced for this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards!

The day is finally here, and we're excited to announce the winners of the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards! These are global awards that celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets. Winning entries in 2009 include CRS Australia (Australia), IDEO (USA), IBM (USA), SunGard (USA/NZ), ...

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Intuit brainstorm offers innovation management

Bill Ives shares a case study of the innovation management system at Intuit. To quote: Intuit Brainstorm was designed by employees operating as innovators, rather than as a tool for senior management to track the status of efforts. It was designed to meet the needs of these innovators. It enables ...

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Intranet Innovation Awards: 3 weeks to go

Just a reminder that there's now less than 3 weeks to get your entries in for this year's Intranet Innovation Awards. In these tough economic times, this is not the time to be shy! Instead, it's a great opportunity to get some visibility for work already done, as external ...

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Why you should enter the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards

Last week we launched the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards. Why should you enter this year? Aside from a beautiful glass trophy, extensive, global coverage of your story, and the opportunity to say, 'We won an award!' there's a more serious side. Winning at Urbis Last year, Andrew MItchell's team at Urbis Australia won ...

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The 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards are open for entries!

We're pleased to announce that the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for submissions, with a closing date of May 1. All the details are available on the awards homepage. The Intranet Innovation Awards are open to any professional or team that works directly on a company intranet ...

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Video interview: Urbis on their Project Finder

Just before Christmas I recorded an interview with Andrew Mitchell from Urbis. This discusses their Project Finder solution, a gold winner in the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards. This directly addresses the age-old challenge for all ...

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Intranet Innovation Award winners spread their wings

One of benefits of being a winner of the global Intranet Innovation Awards is that you get invites to great places in the world to share what you've been doing. One such example: The International Intranet Day run by J. Boye in Denmark (March 25), includes presentations from three ...

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Intranet Innovation Awards 2009

2009 will mark the third year of the Intranet Innovation Awards coordinated by Step Two Designs, and we're hoping to see even more fantastic intranet work from organisations far and wide. Uniquely, the Intranet Innovation Awards recognise individual intranet improvements, and not intranets as a whole. The awards are ...

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What does intranet innovation mean?

Today in Melbourne is the last of this year's Intranet Innovation Awards roadshow sessions. Running these has helped me to refine my thinking about what innovation really means, and how to put it into practice on our intranets. These are the key messages I've been highlighting at the sessions: Steal good ...

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Intranet Innovation Awards: Melbourne (December 4)

We've now organised an Intranet Innovation Award Roadshow event for Melbourne, providing a free afternoon session sharing insights and ideas from this year's winners. Discover approaches that can be reused in your ...

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Intranet Innovation Awards Roadshow: Brisbane

We've now organised a Intranet Innovation Award Roadshow event for Brisbane, providing a free afternoon session sharing insights and ideas from this year's winners. Discover approaches that can be reused in ...

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Janssen-Cilag: Juice

Janssen-Cilag are a leading parmaceutical company within the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies. They are also a Gold award winner in this year's Intranet Innovation Awards for Juice, their innovative intranet solution for ordering IT supplies. We recorded ...

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Scottrade: Competitor Wiki

This year we held the awards ceremony for the Intranet Innovation Awards at the KMWorld & Intranets conference in San Jose. That gave me an opportunity to hand over more of the trophies in person, which is always ...

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British Airways: Crew Community Forums

At the beginning of my recent round-the-world trip, I went straight from touching down at Heathrow to the British Airways head offices nearby. Ignoring 24+ hours of jetlag, it gave me an opportunity to hand over the trophy for ...

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Best-practice approach to SharePoint team spaces

SharePoint is rapidly spreading through organisations at the moment, and in terms of team collaboration, this is a good thing. There is a very real need to be met, and it will require a mix of tools, including team spaces. That being said, we've argued before that the unmanaged spread of ...

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Announcing the winners of the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards

The winners of this year's Intranet Innovation Awards have now been announced. Global in nature, these awards celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets. Uniquely, the awards recognise individual intranet improvements, and not intranets as a whole. The awards are about improving all intranets, ...

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