Step Two Designs

This week we start discussing the digital workplace with a bang. (Watch this space for a big release in the next few days.) Observing the discussions to date, it’s interesting to step back and observe the activity and momentum of the movement as a whole. There’s no question that organisations need to work better and [...]

Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, Knowledge management

Also tagged: digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, intranet 2.0, Intranets, Knowledge management

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Mobile is hot, increasingly so within enterprises. This has been picked up by the major technology vendors, who are all scrambling to deliver mobile functionality, from mobile-friendly web interfaces to iPhone apps that connect to their systems. Despite their enthusiasm, I say: Don’t rely on vendors to meet your mobile enterprise needs. Let’s go back [...]

Categorised under: Information management, Intranets, Usability & user-centered design

Also tagged: enterprise, intranet 2.0, mobile, mobile devices, user experience

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Toby Ward outlines his take on social intranets vs intranet 2.0. To quote: An intranet that features multiple social media tools for most or all employees to use as collaboration vehicles for sharing knowledge with other employees. A social intranet may feature blogs, wikis, discussion forums, social networking, or a combination of these or any [...]

Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets

Also tagged: intranet 2.0, Intranets, social intranet, social software

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Toby Ward ran an Intranet 2.0 survey last year, which generated some interesting results. He’s just launched the Intranet 2.0 Global Survey 2010, and you should definitely consider participating in this. Taking just 10 minutes to complete, participants go into the running for a cash prize. To quote: Respondents who complete the survey will be [...]

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Toby Ward shares a case study of IKEA’s sales intranet. To quote: IKEA U.S. has 37 stores, with over 12,000 co-workers; an employee audience that is both geographically dispersed, and has limited capacity to connect to the intranet. However, a challenging retail environment with a dispersed target audience and a limited attention span has not [...]

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Also tagged: ikea, intranet 2.0, sales

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