Employee experience (EX) certainly feels like the buzzword of the year, but what does EX look like for organisations in the real word? At a recent lunch event with our friends at The Surgery, we hosted a group of internal comms leaders to discuss exactly that. Through...
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Why Viva Engage is the Best Meta Workplace Alternative
Following the news that Meta is shutting down Workplace, thousands of organisations will be looking for an alternative solution to act as the social hub for employees. Some of those organisations will already be using Microsoft 365 – whether it’s SharePoint, Outlook,...
Accelerating Your Journey to Knowledge Management
It’s not a new idea for businesses to use their knowledge to gain a competitive edge. But the bigger they get, the more dispersed that know-how becomes. Technology has taken us some way towards storing and managing that intellectual capital, but all too often...
How to Engage Your Employees with Your Purpose, Strategy, and Vision
Just 13% of employees in Europe are engaged with their work, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workforce Report. 72% are ‘quiet quitting’, and the remaining 15% are actively disengaged. And the results for the UK are even more concerning, where just 10%...
What is Viva Engage?
Viva Engage is part of the Microsoft Viva employee experience platform, alongside apps like Viva Connections, Viva Goals and Viva Amplify. We dive into what Viva Engage is, how to access it, key features, and how much it costs. Jump to: What is Viva Engage Where to...
What is SharePoint Premium?
If you’re unfamiliar with ‘SharePoint Premium’ you’ll have questions: what does it do that SharePoint doesn’t, will it help me, how much is it? As of April 2024, it has been ‘introduced’, but not yet launched. You can use some services but must wait for others. We...
4 Ways to Sort Your SharePoint Data Out
Issues of data consolidation, security, and governance are high on many IT agendas. There are good reasons why these could and should be addressed within SharePoint. Here we look at what you should be doing. Many in IT are very aware that they need to resolve multiple...
Why Traditional Intranets Are Old News
Many companies launched their first intranet in the 1990s, before many Gen Z employees were even born. We were all listening to TLC and the Spice Girls, hardly anybody had a work laptop, and double denim was at its peak. The first iteration of company intranets were...