Why reinvent the wheel when you can steal from others? The best intranets have superb executive sponsorship – usually the President or CEO or someone in the C-Suite – and going hand-in-hand with executive sponsorship, the requisite funding. Governance is also critical, as is content because as they say, content is king (still). However a […]
Internal Branding & Employee Engagement Conference When: September 9-11, 2014 Where: Vancouver, BC Register: Online at http://www.aliconferences.com/events/internal-branding-employee-engagement Reinventing Internal Communications to Drive Behavior Change and a Strategic & Brand-Centric Culture. Learn practical strategies and step-by-step processes to help you drive change and a brand-centric culture linked with strategic goals via […]
Harvard Business School conducted and ROI-engagement study that revealed for every 1% increase in employee engagement, the return on investment (ROI) for a social intranet increased 1000%. Small increases in employee engagement increase the value and ROI of the intranet, and increases corporate profitability. An “engaged employee” is one who is fully absorbed by and […]
SharePoint 2013 is a robust portal and social media platform. SharePoint offers a lot, but out of the box, it can be less than thrilling, which has given rise to leading alternatives and optional platforms such as Jive and Yammer. Many companies are wrestling with the question: will SharePoint alone meet our needs? Or should […]
Social media tools (intranet 2.0) are so simple and inexpensive to deploy that it is incredibly easy to be lulled into complacency until your initiative begins to fail. Often, failure is simply a lack of use or adoption by users, sometimes its misuse of the tools, particularly blogs, discussion forums, and user comments. Just like […]
Migrating content is a big job — in fact, it’s often massive. Many intranet content migration jobs involve many hundreds of thousands of pages and documents (as it did with one recent client with only 400 employees, and more than three-quarters-of-a-million files requiring migration). Migration for SharePoint 2013 (whether content or applications) is one of […]