• Enterprise 2.0 functionality seamlessly part of the intranet. There are so many new ideas in this space, and I’d love to see these put into practice and used widely by staff, showing how they can change the way staff work.
• Great examples of personalisation. This is something that the industry has been talking about for some time, but it’s hard to find examples that work for staff, are used widely, and demonstrate business benefits.
• Delivery to mobile devices. We are now all carrying our Blackberries and iPhones, so it’s time to extend the reach of the intranet into the field and out on the road.
• RSS as an enterprise news channel. The news box on the intranet homepage quickly runs out of puff when we increase the volume of news. Delivering multiple news channels via RSS provides an extremely interesting way of reaching staff.
• Completing tasks on the intranet. This year’s Platinum winner, Fuller Landau, demonstrated the benefits of automating key business tasks on the intranet, but I’d like to see intranets go even further.
• Integration of collaboration and the intranet. Instead of having the collaboration tools “over there”, I’m looking forward to seeing them integrated into the overall intranet user experience, with flows of content from local collaboration spaces to the global publishing platform.

Of course, these are just the personal interests of one of the five judges, and no guarantees of winning! There are also a hundred other ideas worthy of entering.

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What innovations would you like to see win in 2009?

Uniquely, the awards recognise individual intranet improvements, and not intranets as a whole. The awards are about improving all intranets, by sharing great ideas and increasing the pace of innovation across the whole of the intranet community.

With an international judging panel, this year’s awards have raised the bar, demonstrating very clearly the benefits that intranets can deliver.

Platinum award winner

• “Partner Dashboard and more”
  Fuller Landau (Canada)

Gold awards winners

• “Location Finder”
  Syngenta (Switzerland)
• “Speaking Intranet News”
  Swiss Post (Switzerland)
• “Team Sites in a Box”
  Transfield Services (Australia)
• “Crew Community Forums”
  British Airways (UK)
• “Competitor Wiki”
  Scottrade (USA)
• “Project Finder”
  Urbis (Australia)
• “Juice”
  Janssen-Cilag (Australia)
• “Meter Reading Application”
  YHA (UK)

Learn more

Full details on all the winners can be found in the 148-page Intranet Innovations 2008 report. This includes screenshots and detailed information on how the innovations were designed and delivered, along with judges’ commentaries and more.

Download the Executive Summary (2.6mb PDF) for an overview of the awards, as well as full details on two of the winners (Scottrade and Janssen-Cilag).