Archives for Collaboration and social

Ensure your staff can pass the BBQ test

By: James Robertson Posted: June 30, 2015

Intranets can help staff to be effective brand ambassadors at social events.

Ideation applications on the intranet

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: April 30, 2014

Ideation applications tap into staff knowledge to create and share ideas.

There is (largely) nothing to fear from enterprise social

By: James Robertson Posted: December 19, 2013

Experience from many organisations is that enterprise social tools generate few (if any) problems.

Five fundamental capabilities of social intranets

By: Alex Manchester Posted: July 31, 2013

Social intranets provide a valuable mix of functionality, beyond publishing content and news.

Use social intranets to solve business problems

By: Alex Manchester Posted: June 26, 2013

Go beyond woolly objectives for social intranets, to solve real business problems.

What’s the elevator pitch for enterprise social tools?

By: James Robertson Posted: November 21, 2012

How can we best sell the benefits of enterprise social?

Provide online support for activity-based working

By: James Robertson Posted: June 6, 2012

Organisations across the globe are moving to a model of “activity-based working”, which takes the old idea of “hot-desking” and extends it. In a nutshell, it’s about eliminating traditional desks, …

There must be only one staff profile in the digital workplace

By: James Robertson Posted: February 16, 2012

Staff members’ digital identities underpin everything they do in today’s organisations. The ‘digital workplace’ is centred around staff profiles that show who staff are, what they are doing, their skills …

Future principle: put people at the centre

By: James Robertson Posted: February 23, 2010

This future principle explores where intranets should be heading. Previous principles include act proactively, not just reactively, provide universal access and it’s more than the intranet. They support two “future …

No collaboration without communications

By: Amanda Broomhall Posted: March 23, 2009

Getting the fundamentals of good communication right is a prerequisite for collaboration initiatives.