Financial services group Nordea released their new intranet phone book in late 2011. This took their people search on the intranet to an impressive new level. The main goals were to make it faster to find colleagues and increase collaboration between employees across the organization. How did they achieve these common intranet objectives?

I spoke to Jill Sandström and Michael Rosager from Digital Communications in Nordea. They told me that more than 30,000 Nordea employees from 13 countries have access to People Book.

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 7 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes ago

I believe there are several reasons why intranets do not look as clean and polished as business to consumer (B-to-C) websites.

First off they are thought of as behind the scenes. Since only employees are viewing your intranet it’s not as important that it has the slick look and feel that a commercial site has.

Second, the CMS that the intranet is built on is typically not easy to design for. It’s chosen and utilized primarily for it’s functionality and not it’s looks.

Source: designingtheenterprise.com Posted by admin 55 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes ago

BlogAbout meIntranet expertsMedia engagementsMy experienceMy servicesDesign an intranet home page and win a Kindle!November 10, 2011 at 11:48 am | Posted in homepage, intranet | Leave a comment Tags: homepage, intranet

You have the chance to design what you believe is a useful hompage with the added incentive of winning a Kindle.  Surely this is one of the easier decisions for intranet professionals to make! When I look  back at the BT Intranet homepage versions over the years I was there and the ...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 82 days, 13 hours, 19 minutes ago

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Source: www.zaptechsolutions.com Posted by saaiedemla 95 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes ago

The game is changing and there’s a major shift happening in the way we design websites. I’ve been in endless meetings with heated discussions over website or intranet navigation and information architecture. Should the navigation be aligned following departmental structures, product lines or copied from the competitors?

Once the navigation has been decided, the actual implementation often turns out to be complex and expensive. Subsequently, online analytics has unfortunately shown that the navigation is...

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 138 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

With the advent of social media and the speed at which the creation and sharing of knowledge is changing, the traditional Intranet is showing its inherent limitations.

From a knowledge management perspective, these systems are having trouble accommodating the growing needs of the modern enterprise.

Today’s #E2sday explores why the Intranet is struggling and how it can be improved.

Source: blog.socialcast.com Posted by admin 144 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

James Robertson will be running a masterclass 'Designing intranets that work' in London, UK, on 17th October.  For anyone like me who has seen James talking about intranets, he is a great performer and fantastic value.

As James says "The biggest complaint from staff in many organisations: I can't find anything on the intranet!" If intranets aren't easy to use, with great navigation and search, there's little point in having them. To ensure that new or redesigned intranets really are easy to use, we need to involve staff in the design process. Hear, hear!

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 144 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes ago

Most of us who are working as part of a design team in a services company, a product company, or even a design boutique have to live with a generic intranet. In this article, I’ll describe how to leverage your company’s intranet and how to build a community around an intranet for a UX team.

• Exactly Who Are We Designing an Intranet For?
• What Are Our Objectives?

Source: www.uxmatters.com Posted by admin 227 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

by cv harquail

In a social organization, the design of digital social tools like intranets should reflect the organizational features that define the organization. These design features, no matter how subtle, can ‘auto-communicate’ and make salient the characteristics that matter most, and help organizations stay authentic.

Especially in the digital workplace, our digital tools create an important shared context that ‘defines’ the organization.

Source: authenticorganizations.com Posted by admin 233 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

Often used to discover the thoughts of users regarding ‘where’ they would like to find topics on the intranet, card sorting is a low-tech exercise that helps people influence the design of a site.

By collecting real-world information based on people’s expectations, rather than relying on the design or intranet team’s logic and wishes, a site can be built that is people-centred and meets users’ needs.

Source: kilobox.net Posted by admin 270 days, 1 hour, 18 minutes ago