Intranet 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. To avoid these common pitfalls, multiple activities must happen in parallel: teams must deliver fast and think slow.

Fast or slow, intranets must constantly improve over time if they’re going to achieve greatness. There are both practical and strategic reasons to keep improving your intranet.

“What’s working – research results from 186 orgs: Results and insights from IntraTeam’s digital workplace survey, showing how to get more value from your intranet and tools” is the title of my talk at Intranet Now. Will I see you there?

The new site theming experience will begin rolling out to First Release customers.

Microsoft announces support for your communication sites on the SharePoint mobile apps for iOS

In july Microsoft announced Microsoft 365, three new business apps and features to help Office 365 subscribers present ideas in more creative and polished ways.

As the number of Office 365 groups increases, it can create a bit of a mess, for instance when a project is completed but the group is still hanging around. To help address that issue, Microsoft has just turned on the public preview of Office 365 groups expiration.

How can a supermarket chain use Facebook’s enterprise social network to connect employees?

Steps to instill collaborative working don’t go far enough. Most businesses continue to operate as a series of silos, with employees regarded as a resource of their individual manager or department — rather than the business as a whole.

Digital signage is everywhere, but is it part of your internal communication strategy?

There are many new digital tools that internal communicators can put to use, but a strategy is needed!

A list of Employee Communications thumbrules! Soutiman Das Gupta’s take on the qualities, behaviours, attitudes, paths and means that you as an Employee Communications leader should adopt (or should have already adopted) to keep delivering robust, high-impact and long term business value to your organization. An A – Z list.

Martin White has structured a core library for search managers from strategy to operations and added a brief scope note on them. 

Chatbots hold tremendous potential for many different aspects of the enterprise. Here are just a few examples.

Digital transformation is about how technology changes the conditions under which business is done, in ways that change the expectations of customers, partners, and employees.

The reality today is that despite seemingly endless advances and a steady river of emerging technologies, many of the key insights, strategies, and lessons in the digital age have still yet to be discovered. 

The most valuable form of learning today is actually creating new knowledge. Organizations are increasingly being confronted with new and unexpected situations that go beyond the textbooks and operating manuals and require leaders to improvise on the spot, coming up with new approaches that haven’t been tried before.

In a recent #CollabTalk tweetjam on the topic of GDPR, participants discussed many of the issues and concerns surrounding preparation for, and enforcement of, changes to data privacy regulatory changes such as GDPR.

The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies provides insights gained from evaluating more than 2,000 technologies. The eight added in 2017 include 5G, Artificial General Intelligence, Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Digital Twin, Edge Computing, Serverless PaaS and Cognitive Computing.

It was a rebuilding year in a sense, as emerging tech for the enterprise steadily proceeded but didn’t result in as many new targets to track as last year. Yet it’s also abundantly clear the largest digital shifts by far are still ahead of us. Here’s how 2017 is breaking down.

The renowned Siemens Huttenstrasse site found itself facing an uncertain future in the early years of the 21st century. This is the story of a bold project to breath new life into a factory hall outside of the regular hierarchical and organizational structures and trust self-managing organization to develop new and profitable uses for the legendary Siemens Huttenstrasse site.

This case was presented by Sabine Kluge, Siemens at this year’s IntraTeam Event Copenhagen.