Intranet Innovation Awards
Welcome to the home of the Intranet Innovation Awards. From this page you can find out all about the Awards including winners in 2009, how to enter in 2010, information on categories, examples of previous winners, who our judges are, and much more.
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Overview
The Intranet Innovation Awards are global awards that celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the design and delivery of intranets. The goal is to find these ideas (whether large or small), and to share them with the wider community.
Winners in 2009
The 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners were unveiled in Sydney, Australia on 5 November 2009. All winners and commended entries are listed below.
Purchase a copy of the Intranet Innovations 2009 report for full details and screenshots from all the winners.
Platinum award winner
Workflow inbox and more, CRS Australia (Australia)
CRS Australia provides vocational rehabilitation services and assistance for people with disabilities, injuries or health conditions.
The CRS intranet, CRSNet, is a central channel for this dispersed organisation, and is tightly integrated with SAP. It provides detailed information and advanced functionality for staff and managers, wrapped within a seamless user experience. For CRS Australia employees, CRSNet is designed to be the single online operating environment.
Gold awards: core functionality
The Tube: people and project pages, IDEO (USA)
The Tube is IDEO’s intranet, a stylised, innovative online space designed purely around IDEO employees.
Every employee has a personal page that’s linked dynamically to their location, projects, project team members, skills, personal blogs and more. It’s a perfect intranet, directory, skill finder, blogging platform and social network, all wrapped up into one, seamless user experience.
w3 Toolbar, IBM (USA)
Several intranets, dozens of tools and difficulty in knowing which tool to use for which task — and where to find it.
This was a problem identified within a small business unit in IBM, where the sheer scale of the company’s infrastructure and information systems meant employees needed a faster method to find their most commonly-used tools.
Cue the IBM w3 Toolbar, a multi-functional web browser tool, tasked with cutting through the mass of systems and content and integrating tools such as tagging and file sharing to make life much easier for employees.
Skills Matrix, SunGard (USA/NZ)
SunGard is a major provider for financial systems and applications. With a major change in organisational structure came a comparable change in the way the skills were managed. The existing system, a spreadsheet, quickly became unusable, and grew to over 90 spreadsheet pages.
In response, the intranet team created the online Skills Matrix. Built with usability in mind, and what might be deemed a “web 2.0 ethic” of user ratings, open sourcing the data and more, this is a benchmark example of a skill-finding application.
Gold awards: communication and collaboration
NYK News Room, NYK Group (UK)
NYK Group’s business is global shipping and it’s and one of the world’s leading transportation companies with over 770 shipping vessels.
The NYK News Room is wiki-based, and thus multi-faceted in its content, subscription options and viewing opportunities. It provides numerous improvements over the existing information service used by NYK, and is cheaper and has a far more extensive “reach” to employees.
Sabre Town, Sabre (USA)
Sabre Holdings is one of the largest travel products and services providers in the world.
Sabre Town is Sabre’s in-house-developed social network, which helped reconnect the organisation as it expanded globally, and began operating in almost 60 countries. Not only has Sabre Town saved the company money, with defined dollar savings, it’s delivered intangible benefits with improved staff engagement, communication and conversation throughout the organisation.
Gold awards: business solutions
Online performance evaluation system, Prophet (USA)
Prophet is a US-based global consultancy with a customer base of Fortune 500 companies.
Prophet’s online performance evaluation and appraisal system is a centralised dashboard system that takes an often cumbersome, time-consuming process and streamlines and automates it. The result? A super-fast, super-easy feedback system that’s made life dramatically easier for all involved, whether requesting and gathering feedback, or ensuring all applicable staff members are contributing to the process.
Ideas Now, AEP (USA)
AEP is one of the largest electric utility companies in the United States.
The AEP intranet, “AEP Now”, is home to “Now Ideas” — an online suggestion box and system where employees can offer ideas for business improvement, and fellow employees can rate the idea.
The result has been millions of dollars in potential cost savings, and so many good ideas that the project has been frozen while the best ideas are implemented.
Gold awards: frontline delivery
Business collaboration portal, COWI (Denmark)
Faced with a lack of effective collaboration tools and inaccessible shared drives when outside the organisation’s network, COWI deployed a Microsoft SharePoint-based document management and collaboration solution, customising it heavily to ensure it met the exact needs of employees, and the requirements of COWI’s own project methodology.
The result: powerful, embedded “project sites” that connect employees across the world, and enable teams to adhere to long-held project processes and standards.
Mobile employee, ChTPZ (Russia)
ChTPZ, a metallurgical firm in Russia, implemented the “Mobile Employee” service to enable faster and more effective communication among employees in offices and out in the field.
It’s a simple idea, just find the person you need in the directory, click within the directory to go to the Mobile Employee intranet page, type in your message and press “send”.
Commended entries in 2009
In 2009, seven organisations were commended for their intranet work:
- Swiss Post created Distripolis, a virtual world designed to facilitate better communication across the organisation.
- Raiffeisen designed a personalised homepage similar to iGoogle, and have open sourced the code.
- Oil & Vinegar created a intranet/extranet model for its rapidly growing franchised retail business.
- Initiative created ‘Insider’, a total intranet solution designed to reconnect employees.
- GE developed a content targeting tool, enabling them to focus content for their 500,000 intranet users.
- Environmental Resources Management (ERM) created ‘Minerva’, a social intranet complete with CEO blogs, podcasting and more.
- TDC Mobile launched the Mobile News Room, a mobile news application that integrates with the main intranet portal.
“The Intranet Innovation Awards are a great way to benchmark your internal projects against the best of the best from companies around the world”
Nathan Wallace, Associate Director, Janssen-Cilag (Australia)
Essential information about the Awards
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