Running an intranet or digital workplace can be a lonely and difficult task. The rest of the organisation has no idea of what you do and the work of folks in other organisations is equally hidden away.

All of this is why winning an award is important, for teams, for their intranets and digital workplaces, as well as for the wider community.

Everyone loves a winner

“Receiving a Step Two Award is such an honour. It’s meaningful recognition of our team’s hard work, creativity, and collaboration. Internally, it’s boosted morale while externally, it’s helped elevate our visibility across the industry. We’re proud to be recognised by the industry experts at Step Two.”

Enterprise Team, Cox Enterprises (2025 Gold Award winner)

While there have been a number of award programs run by different organisations over the years, none have stayed the course. This makes Step Two’s Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards the longest-running and most established global awards, now proudly entering our 20th year.

“We’re thrilled to be recognised by the Step Two Awards for our work on Springboard. This project was driven by a desire to simplify and modernise how we manage critical documents across the firm.  It’s incredibly rewarding to see our team’s innovation and hard work acknowledged on a global stage.”

Kate Eginton, Head of Knowledge and Project Lead, Dentons Australia (2025 Silver Award Winner)

This is incredibly powerful for teams, as external recognition builds internal reputation. Winning an international award clearly demonstrates an ROI for the team’s hard work (in an environment that is notoriously hard to measure).

Greater reputation helps teams in future business cases, as well as giving them new opportunities to engage with senior leaders.

Sharing is growing

“We are very honored to receive a Gold Award from the 2024 Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. Many people across our project team and entire organisation pitched in to refresh our intranet, and we’d like to acknowledge all of them. It’s wonderful to have everyone’s hard work and valuable input recognised, especially when we are held alongside such great company internationally. The feedback from esteemed global experts has also been really useful to us. We are delighted that our refreshed intranet and the processes we followed have been commended as best-practice – we hope that sharing our experience can help and inspire others.”

Robyn Keriazes, Senior Corporate Communications Advisor,  Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (2024 Gold Award winner)

As an intranet and digital workplace community, it’s vital to spread good ideas and new approaches. At a fundamental level, this helps teams to avoid reinventing the wheel, or heading down blind alleys. (Screenshots alone are incredibly valuable!)

More significantly, awards inspire new approaches, as well as providing concrete evidence of their success. This makes it easy for a team to take a winning entry to their senior leaders, and say “here, if company x is doing this and it works, why can’t we!”.

“Winning the 2025 Step Two Platinum Award is a tremendous honour and a powerful validation of our strategic approach to Knowledge Management (KM). The judges’ recognition of our Digital Workspace platform as an ambitious project that tackles complex KM issues in a global pharmaceutical firm is especially meaningful.

Their feedback, highlighting our foundational work in connecting KM with AI, search, and taxonomies, confirms that our focus on next-generation knowledge management is at the forefront of the industry. This award celebrates not only the technology we’ve built, but also the cross-functional collaboration and “can-do” spirit. This recognition reinforces our commitment to creating a smarter, more connected future for how we work and share knowledge across the organisation.”

Product Development Knowledge Management Team, Roche (2025 Platinum Award Winner)

Over the time, we’ve seen the gap between consumer and enterprise approaches close. While there is still a lag, there is a greater sense of ambition among internal teams, in part driven by the insights from these awards.

“Winning silver at the Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards is a tremendous honour for our InsideOPS team. It’s validating to see our work recognized on the international stage—and even more meaningful to receive praise from senior leaders across the Ontario Public Service, including our CIOs and the OCCIO. This award reflects the passion, innovation, and collaboration that went into building a modern intranet that truly supports public servants in their work.”

Nirav Vyas, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Intranet, Ontario Public Service (2025 Silver Award Winner)

OK then, I’m entering!

The 2026 Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards are currently open for entries (closing on April 21). Head straight to the How to enter page, and start pulling together your submission. We’d love nothing better than to give you an Award, recognising the work that you’ve done.