The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Is a Cloud Intranet Good for your Company?
Cloud computing, if you’ll excuse the pun, has taken the world by storm in recent years. Even companies like Microsoft, who have traditionally sold software as discrete products, are now firmly on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud application wagon. The odds are that many employees are already using personal OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Apps or Office […]
Sounding like a human on social media – BBC Radio 4 Case Study
Guest article by Debbie Sheringham, Digital Impact Producer at BBC and Founder of Straight Talking Social Media If your business has a social media account, I’ve got some bad news for you – it doesn’t belong there. Social media has been conceived, designed and built for humans to interact with other humans – not for […]
Managing as Motivating – How Internal Communication Can Empower Your Team
Managing as Motivating – How Internal Communication Can Empower Your Team As a manager, it is much more important to motivate your team than to monitor every minute detail of your operative business. Selecting the right people and motivating them not only increases productivity, but innovative potential as well. Intrinsic motivation, which is driven by […]
The Customer Journey: Moving Beyond the Conversion Funnel
When analyzing consumer behavior, it’s not about filling a funnel. It’s about guiding the buyers through a journey, said Erik Hartman at this year’s Digital Leadership Forum in Vienna. Let’s take a closer look at the meaning behind his words and how we can improve our understanding of the buying process. Conversion funnels are an […]
Intranet Request for Proposal (RfP) – download template
Each RfP is unique, but the following guidelines should give you an idea of how to write a good RfP. In addition to these tips, we have prepared a sample RfP that you can easily download and customize to your needs. Avoid feature lists Instead of writing a list of features, it is better to […]
What it means to be a leader in an increasingly digitized world…
Gareth Main, Head of Online Merchandising at Guardian News & Media, will be this year’s keynote speaker at the Digital Leadership Forum 2015, which will be held June 8-9 in Vienna. Below, I asked him a few questions about what it means to be a leader in an increasingly digitized world: Our event where you […]
Why Intranet and Enterprise Search is not like Google
Ellen van Aken recently wrote a blog post about why enterprise search is not like Google. You can read it here. Ellen came up with some very good reasons why internal search engines don’t match up with the expectations employees have. I want to add one very simple reason which I believe can be good […]