Step Two Designs

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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Enterprise software applications aren’t “designed”. At best, they’re “developed”, but often they’re just “built”. Whether provided by a software vendor, or created in-house, enterprise solutions are heavy on developers, and it shows. There may be a number of BAs involved, but typically not UX folk or designers. The result are solution that at best meet [...]

Categorised under: Design & usability guidelines, Digital workplace, Intranets, Mobile

Also tagged: design, design thinking, intranet, mobile

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A few weeks ago, we ran a day-long enterprise mobile strategy session at a government agency client of ours. We’ve been helping them design their new intranet, and it was recognised that mobile would be a key part of this. This agency has a substantial field workforce, who check compliance with their particular legislation. This [...]

Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, Mobile

Also tagged: enterprise, intranet, mobile, strategy

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Yesterday I gave the keynote presentations at Intranätdagarna (Intranet Days) 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. A friendly crowd, and some great presentations from the other speakers. The talk shared in this post looked at social tools within organisations, a hot topic for many. My key points: There are many different types of “social tools”, under the [...]

Categorised under: Collaboration, Conferences & presentations, Enterprise 2.0

Also tagged: business case, intranet, social media, social tools

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