One of the reasons we love running the Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards each year is the positive impact it has on the winning teams. Having now run for two decades, these are global awards that recognise outstanding contributions to the fields of intranets and digital workplaces. The awards uncover remarkable solutions that deliver business value, sharing them with the wider community.
Benefits for winners include:
- internal recognition from senior leaders, peers and employees from right across your organisation
- external recognition within the intranet and digital workplace community
- career progression, with winning an award a great thing to put on your CV
- invitations to speak at intranet and digital workplace conferences (both in-person and virtual) around the world
- more investment in your intranet and digital workplace, supporting the business case for future work
- satisfaction and engagement within your team for being recognised for their contribution
- more opportunities to collaborate with other teams within your organisation.
But don’t take our word for it, here are some testimonials from some of the 2026 winners:
“We’re incredibly proud to receive this Gold Award from Step Two. The project brought together colleagues from across multiple countries and functions to deliver a change programme that put employees at the centre. This award is a testament to the dedication, collaboration and expertise of everyone involved.” Indy Bhogal, Associate Director Digital, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
“Winning Gold is a real honour, particularly in a field where so much good work goes unseen. Preparing the entry was valuable in itself: it forced us to step back and articulate what we had built and why it mattered, and the recognition since has given the team a quiet sense of pride in work they had simply got on with. We are grateful to Step Two for creating a forum where digital workplace teams can learn from one another, and we would encourage others to put their work forward.” Wee Sen Goh, Deputy Director, IT, Singapore Management University
“Receiving this Award is both a significant honour and a proud milestone for my organization. It is a meaningful recognition of the dedication, collaboration, and our commitment to innovation, technology, and transformation. We see this recognition as further encouragement to keep challenging conventional thinking, embracing new possibilities, and turning innovation into meaningful and lasting business impact.” Dr. Abeer Al Hajri, ISD Manager, Ashghal
“Port Waratah is proud to see The Channel recognised with a Silver Award in the 2026 Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. This award reflects our commitment to making information, tools and operational and safety insights easier to access for our people, particularly our frontline workforce. Recognition from Step Two, alongside leading organisations from around the world, reinforces the value of putting employees at the centre of digital workplace design and highlights the effort and collaboration of the Port Waratah team and our project partners.” Jennifer Murphy, Specialist Business Information, Port Waratah Coal Services
“External recognition like this is incredibly meaningful because it validates not just what we built, but how we built it. It reinforces the value of putting users first, collaborating across teams and investing in strong knowledge foundations. The lessons from this initiative continue to shape how we improve quality, consistency and AI-enabled knowledge sharing across Aurecon.” Kim Sherwin, Director, Knowledge, Aurecon
“This award is particularly meaningful to us because it validates our belief that listening to employees and turning their needs into real action can make a real difference. We developed the project together with our workforce, especially our production employees, and partnered with a small Polish software house rather than a major global provider. Winning this award is a great recognition for the whole team and shows that you do not always need a large budget or a global solution to create meaningful impact – sometimes it is simply about starting, trusting your people and bringing a good idea to life.” Piotr Cypel, HR Project Manager, Smulders Project Poland
“The fact that, following our 2022 victory, we are once again being cited as an example by an international expert jury represents tremendous recognition of the course we have charted in recent years.” Natasja Lenferink, Manager online channels, Marketing & Communication, Alliander
“Winning this award for RGP Connect is incredibly meaningful because we never set out to simply build an intranet, we set out to create a place where people feel connected to our company, our purpose and, most importantly, to one another. Technology is only powerful when it makes people’s experiences better, and this recognition validates what can happen when you start with people, obsess over the experience, and refuse to settle for ‘good enough’. I’m incredibly proud of the team who brought that vision to life.” Jennifer Jones, Chief Strategy & Experience Officer, RGP
Obtain insights from the winners
If you want to see why the teams above were worthy of an award, you can browse the winners on the main Awards page, narrowing down to the specific insights you need to succeed.
Then get the full insights into all these winners by obtaining a copy of the 2026 Intranet and Digital Workplace Showcase report. This includes 12 detailed case studies with many screenshots, providing the insights you need, in a format that you can easily dip into as required.
Win a trophy next year!
It could be your name in lights next year, so we encourage you to add yourself to the Awards list or even enter our early entry program. This will be used to notify you when next year’s Awards open for entries, and to remind you again before they close: