by Toby Ward | Feb 15, 2017
Tags: digital workplace, IBM, intranet news, layoffs, remote workers
According to various reports, IBM is eliminating remote workers in marketing, engineering, and other roles. The Register details some of IBM’s plans in Big blues: IBM’s remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers. In the US, those that don’t report to one of six main offices, will be eliminated, according to The Register. The same edict will […]
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by Toby Ward | Dec 21, 2016
Tags: IBM, IBM Radio, intranet radio, intranet webinar
Despite its technology prowess, IBM has added an old medium to its impressive employee digital workplace to engage employees: radio. Can radio enhance intranet design? IBM Community Radio is the new intranet radio station for IBMers worldwide, broadcast from Austin, Texas. The brainchild of a designer with the relatively new IBM Design group, up to […]
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by Toby Ward | Nov 9, 2016
Tags: cisco, digital workplace, digital workplace design, IBM, intranet case study, intranet conference, intranet content, intranet content planning, intranet design
What makes a great intranet one of the best? In short, a lot. It requires a tremendous amount of intelligent work, planning, investment, and highly engaged executives and employees. But like an exceptional human being (insert your own election joke), none is perfect. In fact, if you have a terrible intranet, in all likelihood, it […]
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by Toby Ward | Jun 18, 2014
Tags: IBM, intranet, intranet case study, intranet design, intranet redesign, social intranet
Intranet design is pretty stale; and most intranets tend to look alike. Intranet design isn’t the most imaginative business, but occasionally an innovator steps forth…. Enter IBM. IBM undertook a ‘galactic’ intranet redesign a few years ago. In fact, it was a departure for Big Blue to undertake a new design that was very ‘Apple’ […]
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by Toby Ward | Nov 16, 2011
Tags: cisco, IBM, intranet, intranet case study, intranet conference, Intranet Global Forum, intranet workshop, social intranet
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 […]
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