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Intranet Innovations 2011

The 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.

Now in their fifth year, the awards have uncovered many innovative ideas from across the globe. Use these ideas to gain senior management support and to deliver an ever-better intranet.

Snapshot of winners

Framestore follows up on last year’s award-winning entry, which detailed its new intranet, with an application which helps its artists manage their visual effects projects. By interacting with a more complex third party system, the in-house development has delivered a hugely improved user experience and resulted in significantly reduced licensing costs.

Queensland University of Technology, based in Brisbane, Australia, has mobilised its intranet, QUT Virtual, in a way which has genuine impact on a busy user population of students and staff who are always on the move.

UK Parliament has cleverly mobilised its intranet in a way perfectly suited to the working styles of the members of Parliament who are often on the go.

CRS Australia has taken the simple idea of producing links to supporting content when users are completing tasks, and has come up with a well executed project for their ‘Just in time content’ concept.

Lundbeck a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Denmark, has rolled out a gloriously simple idea. Integration of a LinkedIn connector into the SharePoint environment allows each staff member to keep their LinkedIn profile and intranet presence synchronised.

Malmö, a city in Sweden, has highlighted vital intranet content to 20,000 employees by introducing personalised tabs across job roles and business divisions into the global intranet navigation.

Alcatel-Lucent (including Bell Labs) has launched a highly usable video-sharing platform available via their intranet which has started to embed the use of video in the way people work.

Arup’s cross-functional team created a vibrant social microsite positioned on the intranet. It records the progress of teams in an internal charity and fitness event called the Amazing Race, which benefits the firm’s chosen charity SportsAid.

ScottsMiracle-Gro, a global leader in lawn and garden care products, has produced an extensive range of content and tools available on its intranet ‘The Garden’ to educate staff about the firm’s consumers.

Lafarge’s intranet team established an indispensable and mobilised solution supporting the firm’s annual leadership conference at Baveno.

Obtain the insight

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

The 179-page Intranet Innovations 2011 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

• Visual effects project management tool
  Framestore (UK)

Gold awards winners

• Mobile intranet
  Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• Mobile intranet
  UK Parliament (UK)
• Just in time content
  CRS Australia (Australia)
• Expertise location and LinkedIn connector
  Lundbeck (Denmark)
• Personalisation
  Malmo Stad (Sweden)
• Alu TV video sharing platform
  Alcatel-Lucent (France)
• SportsAid Amazing Race
  Arup (UK)
• Customer-centric intranet
  ScottsMiracle-Gro (USA)
• Online and mobile conference tool
  Lafarge (France)

Commended entries

• Find-o-meter
  Vancity (Canada)
• Daisy the intranet
  RSPCA Victoria (Australia)
• Social intranet
  RPC (UK)
• Faceted search
  CSIRO (Australia)

Enter the 2012 awards

The 2012 Intranet Innovation Awards will open for entries in April 2012. As can be seen from this year’s winners, a diverse range of ideas from all types of organisations can win. Visit the Intranet Innovation Awards page to pre-register your name, and we’ll notify you when the awards open for submissions.

More information

• Winners at a glance
• Table of contents
• Global supporters
• Licence conditions
• Enter the 2012 awards