Including fun features on the intranet can send the message that the organisation is a great place to work.
Archives for Intranets
What intranets can do for … engineers.
Organisations, like people, are often successful because of their strengths. These strengths may sometimes also have a shadow side. Understanding that within these shadows lie…
What intranets can do for … engineers.
Engineers working in operational environments have specific needs and issues that can be met with an intranet.
Tree testing for effective navigation.
‘I can’t find what I am looking for’ is one of the most common complains staff make about intranet content. Contributing to this issue is…
Tree testing for effective navigation.
Tree testing provides a cheap and effective way of checking draft navigation before proceeding further into a redesign.
Mobile intranets have come of age.
Screenshot courtesy of UK Parliament Mobile devices become ubiquitous in the consumer space, with “there’s an app for that” reshaping how people get access to…
Presentation: personalisation vs targeting.
Last week in London I had the pleasure of presenting at the Interactions 2011 conference. This was the second of my presentations, a 20-minute exploration…
Helping intranet authors write quality content.
p>One of the keys to a successful intranet is high quality, well written content, making it both useful and usable. Writing for the online medium…
Reverse innovation of intranets in global companies.
Global companies, whether banks, pharmaceutical companies or non-profits, have a particularly strong need for great intranets. With tens or hundreds of thousands of staff across…
The future of intranets (and what it means for KM).
It was my great pleasure today to be the opening keynote at the KM Singapore conference organised by iKMS on 1 September 2011. My key…