H&R Block is the world’s largest tax services firm. Established in the 1950s, H&R Block is the largest non-food franchiser in the world. It has an equally impressive intranet case study. A fascinating business given there are some 90,000 people …
The purpose of an office intranet is to provide staff with the tools and information that they need to get the job done more quickly and easily. A successful intranet is one that meets the needs of employees such that …
The digital workplace is not an intranet on steroids, or a replacement of an intranet; or the next great enterprise portal, nor is it SharePoint. The digital workplace describes a work place of digitally interconnected tools used to get …
There is no more critical ingredient for an intranet than governance. Without good governance—which is to say, good management and policies regarding intranet usage—no intranet can realize its full potential. The question of intranet governance is indispensable to companies trying …
Microsoft has released the new SharePoint 2016, the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version and announced the final version will be generally available May 4. Some perspective: CMSWire claims Microsoft “shakes up its strategy.” Though I do not agree that MS …
The intranet is dead. How many times have we heard this tired, uninformed complaint or false prophecy in the past 10 years? Too many, which coincidentally is equal to the number of half-wits out there that don’t know any better. …
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 …
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“I no longer support the idea of home page news and features,” says Shel Holtz, Principal, Holtz Communications + Technology. “My opinion has changed 180 degrees in the past two years. Activity streams is where we are moving.” At Pitney …
It takes a highly engaging, collaborative intranet to be a great intranet. And a highly engaged workforce, led by a very active executive team that not only believes in and talks social, but walks social too. DIRECTV, which has since …
