by Toby Ward | Apr 21, 2021
Tags: corporate culture, digital workpace, digital workplace, intranet, intranet best practices, intregrations, personalization
Your company intranet is a powerful hub that affects how your company operates on a day-to-day basis. It helps employees keep track of company news, connect and communicate with fellow employees, find important company documents, keep track of projects, and so on. Learning from intranet best practices, you can apply key intranet learnings to your […]
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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 | Oct 4, 2019
Tags: communications technology, digital workplace, employee communications, internal communications, intranet, technology for communicators
Corporate communications, according to the latest crowd-sourced definition on Wikipedia, ”is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications aimed at creating favorable point of view among stakeholders on which the company depends.” Wrong. If this is your definition of corporate communications, you are failing as a communicator. The notion that […]
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by Toby Ward | Apr 25, 2019
Tags: new social intranet, sharepoint, slack, social intranet, Teams
All-the-rage 10 years ago, collaboration on the social intranet is now part of the weekly work routine for most knowledge workers. The social intranet is at the hub of this collaboration and the underpinning technology continues to innovate and evolve. About 90% of intranets have some form of social component, be that instant messaging, discussion […]
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by Toby Ward | Jan 31, 2019
Tags: digital workplace solution, intranet revolution, intranet software, intranet technology
The digital workplace is revolutionizing at high-speed; leading the charge is the intranet. The intranet is the gateway to employee tools, and all internal applications. From custom-built solutions to portals, and complete digital workplace solutions, intranet software solutions are changing the way we work, fed by trends in artificial intelligence (AI), social computing, and mobile access. […]
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by Toby Ward | Dec 12, 2018
Tags: intranet design, intranet redesign, intranet search, less is more
“I only use the intranet when I have a purpose. I go on to find something as quick as possible and then I’m off,” said an employee during an intranet focus group earlier today. Employee focus groups that test intranet design concepts and approaches are very revealing. It’s a fantastic means of determining the collective opinion and […]
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