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Intranet Innovations 2008

The 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets.

Uniquely, these 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.

Every idea, no matter how small, adds to our understanding of what it means to have a successful intranet.

Global in nature, the Intranet Innovation Awards have uncovered many innovative ideas. Fuller Landau, this year’s platinum winner, delivered a rich set of functionality to support core business processes in their accounting firm.

Syngenta created a full-featured ‘location finder’ to help knit together their 210 locations in more than 90 countries. Swiss Post delivered ’speaking intranet news’ via a 0800 number to their postmen and postbus drivers.

Transfield Services rolled out a SharePoint solution for collaboration that will be the envy of many, providing extensive support for users plus an overall governance model. British Airways used their Crew Community Forums to support peer-to-peer collaboration, and to solve a myriad of operational challenges.

Scottrade used a wiki to capture and communicate key information on their competitors in the fiercely competitive financial industry. Urbis delivered a ‘project finder’ to help their professional services firm answer the question: ‘what have we done before?’.

Janssen-Cilag took the normally behind-the-scenes task of tracking IT equipment and made it into a user-facing solution that streamlines common tasks. Finally, YHA delivered a meter reading application that helps staff in hostels and supports the organisation’s goal to reduce their energy usage by 10%.

With winners across four categories (core functionality, communication and collaboration, frontline delivery and business solutions), there are valuable ideas for every intranet team.

The 148-page Intranet Innovations 2008 report shares the full results of the awards, including screenshots and details of the winning entries. Commended entries provide further insights and examples.

Use this report to discover where intranets are innovating, and to find ideas that can be implemented on your intranet.

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)

Commended entries

• “People Search with Jitter”
  Janssen-Cilag (Australia)
• “Intranet Newsflash”
  EUMETSAT (Germany)
• “Intranet Light”
  Swiss Post (Switzerland)
• “CEO Blog: Spe@k e-asy”
  South Australian Department for Families and Communities (Australia)
• “Duty Office Briefing System”
  Department for Transport (UK)
• “Hospitality Ordering System”
  Department for Transport (UK)
• “Crew Hotel Information and Feedback”
  British Airways (UK)

The 148-page Intranet Innovations 2008 report shares the full results of the awards, including screenshots and details of the winning entries. Use this report to discover where intranets are innovating, and to find ideas that can be implemented on your intranet.

Executive summary

Download the Executive Summary (2.6mb PDF) to find out more about the awards, including full details on two of the winners (Scottrade and Janssen-Cilag).

More information

• Winners at a glance
• Video interviews
• Table of contents
• Reviews & feedback
• Global supporters
• Press releases
• Licence conditions
• 2007 winners