This year the Intranet Innovation Awards are five years old. The global competition, run by Step Two Designs, has uncovered another set of great examples of innovative work from intranet teams worldwide. Collectively they give us a compelling glimpse of where intranets are at this moment in time, as well ...
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Mobile intranets have come of age
[caption id="attachment_4846" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Screenshot courtesy of UK Parliament"][/caption] Mobile devices become ubiquitous in the consumer space, with “there’s an app for that” reshaping how people get access to information on the move. Up to now, however, the situation within organisations has lagged ...
Award winners in London
[caption id="attachment_4835" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Left to right: Sharon O'Dea (UK Parliament), Alex Jackson (Framestore), James Robertson (Step Two Designs), Adam Pope (Arup)"][/caption] We had a lovely informal awards ceremony in London yesterday for the recently announced Intranet Innovation Award winners for 2011. ...
Intranet Innovation Awards roadshow (Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney)
As you'd be aware, the winners of the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards have just been announced. Each year, we run a free roadshow throughout Australia, where you will hear all about the winning entries, see screenshots and hear what set these entries apart from the rest. These afternoons will be ...
Meet the UK’s Intranet Innovation Award winners in London
The winners of this year's Intranet Innovation Awards will be announced in the coming fortnight, and as always, we have a remarkable collection of intranets to reveal. While I can't tell you who has won (it's still a secret!), I can reveal that there is more than one UK-based ...
Introducing our practitioner judge for the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards
In recent years, we've included a practitioner judge on the judging panel for the Intranet Innovation Awards. This ensures we're "keeping it real", and surfacing the ideas that will have the greatest impact on intranet teams in the ...
What we’d love to see entered into this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards
Each year, we wait with breathless anticipation to see what entries we'll get for the Intranet Innovation Awards. Organisations still have until May 31 to enter, so it's early days yet. To pass the time, we asked our judges and supporters what sorts of things they'd like to see. We ...
2011 Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for entries!
Now in their fifth year, the global Intranet Innovation Awards uncover great ideas for the benefit of the whole intranet community. Winners have come from countries around the world, from both small and large organisations. This year's Awards are now open for entries, with submissions closing on ...
Inspiration for your 2011 Intranet Innovation Award entry
As mentioned last week, the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards open for entries very shortly. So now is a great time to starting thinking about what you're going to submit, and to register your interest. To help you identify the best of your work to submit, here are four video ...
Start thinking about your entry for this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards
It's only a few weeks until the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards opens for entries. So now is a great time to start thinking about what you're going to enter. To make sure you don't miss out, register your name to be reminded when the awards open for entries. A ...
Video interview with Deb Reilly from IMF
When I was in Washington DC late last year, I had a chance to do a video interview with Deb Reilly from IMF, on their Gold winning entry to the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. On the ...
Interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup
When I was in London late last year, I was pleased to have an opportunity to record a video interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup. Gold winners of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards, their skills ...
Video interview with Bennett Jones, Platinum Intranet Innovation Award winner
KMWorld in Washington DC last week gave us a wonderful opportunity to meet up with many of our Intranet Innovation Award winners for 2010. Their work was also of keen interest to the rest ...
Video of Intranet Innovation Award ceremony at KMWorld 2010
I've had a great time at the KMWorld 2010 conference in Washington DC this week. The highlight was handing over trophies to many of the Intranet Innovation Award winners for the 2010. It was great ...
Award ceremony at next week’s KMWorld conference in Washington DC
I'm pleased to report that KMWorld 2010 will again the be the host for an Intranet Innovation Awards ceremony. In front of the assembled crowds, Martin White and I will be honoured to handout glass trophies to a number of the winners. This year, in addition to the ...
Intranet Innovations 2010: key themes from this year’s awards
2010 is the fourth year of the Intranet Innovation Awards, the global competition run by Step Two Designs. The awards were created to help uncover the work and achievements of intranet teams worldwide, and every year they give unparallelled insight into the leading edge of the field. In 2010 there ...
Brilliant intranet video from Rijkswaterstaat
The best thing about the Intranet Innovation Awards is its ability to uncover great stuff done in hidden corners of the intranet community. This video from Rijkswaterstaat (Dtuch government waterways authority) is a perfect example. Like ...
Intranet Innovations 2010 annual report
In conjunction with the Intranet Innovation Awards, the Intranet Innovations 2010 annual report has just been released. A must-have for all intranet teams, it shares details on the 2010 winners of the global Intranet Innovation Awards, and gives insight into the leading edge of intranets. Use ...
Congratulations to this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners!
The winners of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards were announced today. With over 50 entries this year, there was fierce competition for the coveted glass trophies. The awards are unique in that they focus on specific enhancements that add value, rather than intranets as a whole. This makes for a ...
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just one week left to enter!
It's Friday 16 April, and this year that means just one more week left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close next week - Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on ...
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just two weeks left to enter
It's Friday 9 April, and this year that means just two weeks left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close on Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on past winners, judging ...
Just one month left to submit your Intranet Innovation Award
Intranet Innovation Award judge and publisher of the annual Global Intranet Trends report, Jane McConnell, has quite rightly pointed out that there's just one month left to submit your entry for the 2010 Awards. Why should you enter? Here are Jane's thoughts: The Intranet Innovation Awards are in ...
Sharing, learning and gaining recognition with an Intranet Innovation Award
A fundamental aspect of the Intranet Innovation Awards is sharing and demonstrating what's out there in terms of state-of-the-art intranet design, applications, services and features. We see uncovering the best of the best as critically important to the global intranet ...
William Amurgis joins the Intranet Innovation Awards judging panel
For 2010 we're very pleased to have a new judge on the panel for the Intranet Innovation Awards. William Amurgis, Manger - Internal communications, at American Electric Power (AEP), is our first practitioner judge, and represents the USA on the panel. He'll ...
2010 Intranet Innovation Awards now open for entries
We're pleased to announce that the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for entries. Now in their fourth year, the Intranet Innovation Awards are the premier awards for intranet teams. Drawing on the best of intranet work around the world, ...
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 ...
What do you expect in the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards?
Here at Step Two Designs we're gearing up for the launch of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards, with submissions opening in March (just a couple of weeks!). It doesn't seem too long ago that we unveiled the 2009 winners and many genuinely spectacular intranet innovations, from CRS Australia's super-smart ...
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 ...
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 ...
How to generate business support for intranet innovation
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 ...
Gold winner: ChTPZ (Russia)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="ChTPZ's 'Mobile Employee' service is an easy-to-use, custom-designed SMS system that's housed on the intranet and tightly integrated with the organisation's corporate directory."] Post 10 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into ...
Gold winner: COWI (Denmark)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="COWI's project sites have enabled faster and more effective working across teams and departments, while maintaining compliance with the organisation's strict methodology."] Post 9 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
Gold winner: American Electric Power (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="599" caption="AEP's 'Now Ideas' helped the company identify $8 million in savings in five months."] Post 8 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's Intranet Innovation Award winners. American Electric Power’s ...
Gold winner: NYK Group (UK)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="599" caption="NYK's wiki News Room provided a cost-effective, global and user-friendly solution to sharing and distributing Group news. Screenshot courtesy of NYK."] Post 7 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
Slidecast of the 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners
Last week we held an awards ceremony at the KMWorld conference in San Jose. In addition, I gave a 50 minute presentation that shared plenty of detail on a number of the winners. The ...
Intranet Innovations 2009: insights into this year’s winners
The 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners were unveiled in Sydney on 5 November 2009. There's a wealth of great screenshots, information, tips and advice in the 2009 Awards report, which you can find on the Step Two Designs website. This article summarises the winners and hits on some of ...
Gold winner: SunGard (NZ/USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Sungard's Skills Matrix dispenses with a wall-sized spreadsheet and allows managers and other staff to find the right employee for a task. Image provided courtesy of Sungard"] Post 6 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving ...
A gathering of award winners in San Jose
This morning we held an awards ceremony at KMWorld in San Jose for some of the US-based winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards. In front of the assembled masses, I was delighted to hand over the lovely glass trophies in ...
Gold winner: Prophet (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Prophet's in-house designed online performance evaluations system reduced the appraisal process timeframe from two months to one week. Screenshot courtesy of Prophet."] Post 5 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's ...
Gold winner: Sabre (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Sabre Town is social networking for the enterprise, an in-house developed, Facebook-style platform that's led to quantifiable savings for the company. Screenshot courtesy of Sabre."] Post 4 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight ...
Gold winner: IBM (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="The w3 Toolbar is an active, multi-functional browser tool enabling users to recommend, share and link to content, files and more. Screenshot courtesy of IBM."] Post 3 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight ...
Gold winner: IDEO (USA)
[caption id="attachment_3877" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Rich people profiles, including projects and availability. Screenshot courtesy of IDEO."][/caption] Post 2 of 10 of a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year’s Intranet ...
2009 platinum winner: CRS Australia (Australia)
Post 1 of 10. This is the first of a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year's Intranet Innovation Award winners. Workflow inbox and moreCRS Australia (Australia) CRS Australia provides vocational rehabilitation services and assistance for people with ...
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), ...
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 ...
Intranet ‘innovation’ – what we’re looking for
One of the most challenging aspects of the Intranet Innovation Awards is convincing intranet professionals that the work they've done is innovative, and worth entering. While I'm sure there are many reasons for this, it's worthwhile to describe just what we see and consider as 'innovative' in the context ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Juice and Jitter
Nathan Wallace, following on from winning an Intranet Innovation Award this year, has generously shared more information on his work: Juice: An innovative and user-centric approach to IT equipment and new starters. Jitter: Experimenting with microblogging in the enterprise. (You can also see a video interview with Nathan, talking ...
The intranet innovations I would like to see in 2009
Now that we've got this year's Intranet Innovation Awards out of the way, my mind starts to turn to next year. Intranets are continuing to evolve and grow in scope, and this is what I'd like to see entered into next year's awards: Enterprise 2.0 functionality seamlessly part of the ...
Positive feedback on Intranet Innovation Awards
We've had some positive feedback on the Intranet Innovations 2008 report, which shares the winners of this year's Intranet Innovation Awards. Recent comments include: "In a time where most organizations are forced to cut costs and going through difficult budget decisions, the Intranet Innovations Award provides numerous examples of innovative ...
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 ...
Intranet Innovation Award Roadshow: Canberra
This is the first of the Intranet Innovation Award Roadshow events, free afternoon sessions sharing insights and ideas from this year’s winners. Discover approaches that can be reused in your organisation, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
