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Tag: portals (page 2)
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A Look at Nielsen Norman Group's Top 10 Intranets of 2018
Nielsen Norman Group has released the list of its Top 10 intranet projects of 2018. Here's a look inside.
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TUI Group's 3-Year Journey to a New Network of Intranets
The tale of one company's multiyear effort merging 18 legacy intranets into a global family of intranets for 65,000 employees
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Digital Workplace or No, an Intranet's Purpose Remains the Same
The purpose of an intranet remains the same: to inform and connect staff across the broader organization. So when people ask where intranets fit in a digital workplace strategy the answer is, "where they always have.
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How Modern Intranets Connect the Digital Workplace
Digital tools have made us more efficient — there's nothing particularly groundbreaking in that statement. Yet when we dissect the impact technology has had on our personal and professional lives, we can see the enormous influence it's had on the way we work and live.
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A Digital Workplace Strategy Is More Than Its Parts
In a world overflowing with content, tools and information, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture — especially when that big picture comprises so many moving parts. A modern digital workplace strategy is composed of communications, people, process, ideas, information, websites, tools, systems, metadata and more.
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Intranets, the Window to Your Digital Workplace
Enterprises have had a love/hate relationship with their intranets for more than two decades. An intranet is often labeled an information hub, but in most cases the interface and the way information is organized are so unfriendly that many employees either ignore it or access it begrudgingly.
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Is Microsoft Teams the 'Portal' We've Been Looking For?
On day one of Microsoft Ignite, the company announced its Teams collaboration product would become the “hero client” for all communications functionality in Office 365 going forward. Teams will subsume the functionality of Skype for Business for Office 365 users, bringing voice, video calling and even plain old telephone services
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7 Free Enterprise Intranet Solutions (That Aren't Really Free)
Intranets are the workhorses of internal communications. Since their introduction in the mid-'90s, intranets have been used for corporate communications, collaboration, file sharing and knowledge management.
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Avoid Intranet Pitfalls by Delivering Fast and Thinking Slow
The complex business environments most organizations operate in can stop them from taking advantage of the many opportunities intranets offer. Teams are tasked with the rapid delivery of outcomes, while at the same time managing the conflicting stop-start-stop messages coming from senior leaders.
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How Your Digital Workplace Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide
A confluence of workplace trends are creating deeply fragmented workplaces. Growing workforce mobility, a widening generation gap, the increasing use of personal devices and applications and an intensifying talent war are creating divisions not only between employees, but between leadership and employees. When workers feel disconnected, they consistently underperform.
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6 Signs Your Digital Workplace Needs a Change
Given the sophistication of the consumer apps we use in our personal lives, it’s shocking how far behind many companies still lag these experiences. Too often the focus of corporate intranets and other enterprise tools are on pushing one-way content rather than enabling vibrant multi-directional engagement between employees.
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How Stihl Australia Launched Its Award-Winning First Intranet
Intranets don’t only improve internal communications and collaboration at large enterprises, they can also work some productivity magic at a small to midsize business like Stihl Australia. A subsidiary of a German global power tools manufacturer, Stihl Australia is primarily a sales operation, with its 100 employees distributed between a
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New Opportunities for Internal Communicators
Much of traditional internal communications has been about the delivery of fake news. Staff have not been fooled. Over the years, it really struck me how the output of most internal communications departments was disconnected from the real needs of the staff in their organizations.
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Brad Grissom: Intranets Provide the Hub for Employees to Make Connections
Brad Grissom’s career path exemplifies how the separate skillsets of business and IT can meld harmoniously together. His background in business continuity and disaster recovery planning has proved very helpful in his current role as senior manager of communication and collaboration solutions at Southwest Airlines.
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