People consider their mobile phone to be one of their key personal possessions, never far from their body. Psychologically, they are personal devices, in a way that is very different …

Elements of a mobile enterprise strategy

By: James Robertson Posted: October 26, 2010

Mobile devices are changing the consumer landscape, and organisations must have an enterprise strategy to keep in the game.

Four stages of enterprise mobile adoption

By: James Robertson Posted: October 6, 2010

Mobile devices are currently transforming how we live our lives, again. Having taken for granted the ability to make calls when away from the home or office, mobile data access …

Collaboration tools require new ways of working

By: James Robertson Posted: October 5, 2010

Collaboration and social tools promise to transform how organisation work, dramatically improving the way that staff communicate and work together. They also provide new ways of storing (and retrieving) corporate …

Putting people at the centre: social staff directories

By: James Robertson Posted: August 31, 2010

The term ‘social intranet’ has become popular in recent times, and describes an intranet with social media tools — blogs, wikis, microblogs, comment functionality and more — embedded within the …

Putting people at the centre: social staff directories

By: Alex Manchester Posted: August 31, 2010

Staff directories should provide the foundation for social features on the intranet.

Understanding new solutions

By: James Robertson Posted: July 29, 2010

In today’s world new solutions and applications appear every day, and some are more useful and interesting than others. It’s part of an intranet team’s role to know what’s around …

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 …

I’m going to start talking about the future, and I need your help

By: James Robertson Posted: November 20, 2009

Our unwavering efforts over the last 7+ years have been focused on helping teams deliver better intranets. This has all been about “today”, and what we can do to make …

Using the intranet to access collaboration tools

By: James Robertson Posted: September 17, 2009

The home page of the intranet should provide a one-click gateway to collaboration tools.