by Toby Ward | Feb 21, 2021
Tags: best practices, examples, intranet, top intranets
The design of your intranet has a huge impact on whether your employees will actually use it or not. A well designed, engaging company intranet that is intuitive and user-friendly quickly captures your employees’ attention and inspires them to use it on a daily basis, turning the company intranet into a business-critical tool. A clunky, […]
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by Toby Ward | Feb 24, 2020
Tags: intranet, intranet case studies, intranet case study
The intranet is not a website; you can’t just Google an organizations intranet, and start surfing. Intranet case studies, good ones (not merely marketing pitches or advertorials) are rare, and at best offer a fleeting glance (a glance that is usually projected through rose color glasses). By definition, an intranet is privileged; it designed to […]
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by Toby Ward | Oct 25, 2019
Tags: AI, chatbots, digital workplace strategy, email, intranet chatbot, Liberty Mutual intranet, Workgrid
To create a digital workplace strategy that improves the employee experience and supports overarching business goals, the first order of business (and by no means the easiest) is to identify the key stakeholders and assemble the right team for the initiative. If the thought of having to actually do that evokes images of herding cats, […]
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by Toby Ward | Jun 25, 2019
Tags: employee game, gaming, HR game, intranet, intranet game, Training game
The World’s largest employer is using an employee video game to attract and develop a new generation of managers. Spark City, Walmart’s new mobile management game, trains managers while they play. Modelled on popular mobile resource management games like Sims and Clash of Clans, Spark City challenges Walmart employees to run their departments like small businesses. […]
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by Toby Ward | Feb 25, 2019
Tags: digital workplace podcasting, employee podcasting, intranet multimedia, intranet podcasting
Email is easy; newsletters and intranet home page news are par-for-the-course. But communications that that drives employee engagement are truly great. This is the impetus for CEOs, communications and intranet managers that are increasingly employing intranet podcasting as a way to engage employees. Podcasting is spreading like wildfire (Nielsen, 2018): 120 million Americans listened to a […]
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by Toby Ward | Jan 10, 2018
Tags: great digital workplace, great intranets, intranet governance, winning intranets, winning traits
A winning intranet is like a snow leopard; very rare, mysterious, and beautiful. Winning intranets are years in the making; building and enhancing slowly over time, supported by active executive champions and funding. Emphasis on executive support — money follows the chiefs, and it flows down from the executive suite. And without funding, and the executive sponsorship to ensure it, […]
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