It takes a highly engaging, collaborative intranet to be a great intranet. DIRECTV has an 80% participation rate on their social intranet that features active bloggers among their executive team, including the CEO, and CMO. In fact, more than a …
Part II of a four part series on great intranets. The Cisco intranet, called Cisco Employee Connection (CEC), is now 20 years old, and supports a workforce of more than 100,000 (75,000 full-time employees plus contractors). “The intranet connects everyone …
Sometimes you get what you pay for, but money alone is not a panacea. While the adoption of enterprise social media continues to grow, these tools continue to be poorly deployed and adopted, particularly behind the firewall on the corporate …
For all the talk on technology, particularly social and mobile technologies, an intranet is mostly people and process. And it is not a communications or IT project, it is a *business system* meant to support and enhance the entire organization …
Part I of a four part series on great intranets. “Technology is just the enabler; people and process drive social business,” says Gloria Burke, Chief Knowledge Officer, Unisys. Unisys is a worldwide information technology company that provides a portfolio of …
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. …
SharePoint is present in 80% of the Fortune 100; and plays a prominent intranet role in about 70% of knowledge worker intranets (either powering the main intranet portal, or delivering associated collaboration sites and/or document repositories). This in spite of …
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%. Wow. I’m not sure that this is the case at every organization, it …
(NEW YORK, NY) Lawyers love pouring cold water on new ideas; “that’s not the way we work,” or they proclaim something to do with “liability” and “privacy regulations” as knee-jerk arguments for blocking innovation. “Sometimes listening to legal counsel is …
