New ways of working within the office environment means that employees are less likely to be based at one single location, and may work in…
Gamification as an adoption and engagement tactic.
When global engineering firm Arup made some improvements to the projects database area on its intranet, the intranet team wanted to encourage employees to post…
What if the Mad Men ran intranets? (Step Two newsletter for March 2015).
The world of Mad Men in the advertising industry is glamorous and cut-throat. What would our intranets and digital workplaces look like if they were…
Lessons from advertising for digital workplaces and intranets.
What would our intranets look like if they were run by Mad Men?
Global intranet projects aren’t just bigger versions of “normal” projects.
Image from Shutterstock. In the last year or so, we’ve been doing a lot of work with global organisations who are redesigning their corporate intranets….
Strengthen your organisation’s digital muscles and bones.
Image from Shutterstock In recent years, the focus within organisations has been on the customer. Large corporations have “customer experience” teams, who have transformed everything…
Redesigning the enterprise.
Design can transform the way we work, from fixing usability issues to uncovering new business solutions.
Take an ‘all of the above’ approach to intranets.
Teams need to cut through religious wars to make the most of both new and old ideas.
Digital workplaces and activity based working: maintaining connections in modern office environments.
Many of the organisations we’re working with are in the process of moving into new office environments. These are often brand new office complexes, which…
How ready is your organisation for social?.
The starting point for every social project should be a ‘temperature check’ of readiness.