It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the Intranet Global Forum (with Kurt Sorensen, and myself), was a chance for a wide audience (300 organizations worldwide) to see how some of the very best intranets look, operate and achieve success. Great case [...]

There’s a lot to learn from the best: what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. So goes the old proverb: You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing. Amongst the very best, elite intranets on the planet were on showcase at the [...]

A team of more than 40 IBM consultants have undertaken a massive redesign of IBM’s web properties: a galactic redesign that includes both the external website and internal intranet. The core objective: a Single design system that converges the intranet (W3) and Internet standards, incorporates reusable design patterns and evolves the design system through collaboration. [...]

There’s a reason why YouTube is one of the most flocked-to websites on the planet (second or third in traffic only behind parent Google, depending on the measuring stick): people want video. They crave it. Are employees not users too? Sadly, given the allocated funding to the corporate website versus the corporate intranet, employees matter [...]

It used to be so difficult to find and read quality intranet case studies. Although, long detailed case studies with screenshots are hard to come by, many organizations are opening the hood to allow the outside world a peak at their intranet. Here are a few good intranet case studies from the past few weeks: [...]

From mundane to social: intranets are rapidly evolving into social media systems that greatly distance themselves from their former, glorified brochure-ware sites. To be clear, for those still learning about a concept that has really only emerged in recent months, and was only formally defined this year (see The Social Intranet white paper), a social intranet incorporates multiple social media tools that [...]

(UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS) Océ has 21,500 employees worldwide in 90 countries with annual revenue of 2.6 billion Euros. Océ’s business is document printing, production printing, wide format printing systems and business services (in short, they’re in the printing business). Oce is a dominant, global multinational in the printing business, with a widely dispersed employee population. Crisis [...]

(SAN JOSE, CA) While an innovative intranet may be cool, and look great, a truly innovative intranet delivers true value and advances an organization's standing in its industry. The Intranet Innovations 2009 report celebrates the winners of the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards, produced by Step Two Designs, sharing remarkable ideas from across the globe. Intranet [...]

“There is an enormous thirst for communications… we really dedicate almost the entire home page of the intranet to communications,” Cheryl Travis, intranet manager, Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management, data protection, and [...]

(PHILADELPHIA, PA – J. Boye) Insights from CMS Watch founder, and co-author of the CMS Watch Report, Tony Byrne. Tony Byrne, CMS Watch: SharePoint is part product, part platform, part ecosystem – a collection of technologies that have varying degrees of finish Under-reported and under-appreciated dimension of SharePoint: built solidly on (almost) latest .NET platform [...]